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I am professor at Hochschule der Medien (university of applied sciences) in Stuttgart, Germany.
Before that, I was lead research scientist at Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI) and, before that, a postdoctoral researcher in Sebastian Padó's group at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) at University of Stuttgart. Before that, I completed my PhD in computer science at the Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS) at LMU Munich, under the supervision of Hinrich Schütze.
During my PhD, I was a recipient of the Google European Doctoral Fellowship in Natural Language Processing.
Research Interests
My research interests lie on machine learning methods for natural language processing (NLP), with a particular focus on deep learning methods and on enhancing their robustness (e.g., in low-resource scenarios) and their explainability. Important application areas of my work are audiovisual media creation and analysis, such as multimodal large language models, image generation and audio generation. In the past, the application areas I focused on most were speech recognition, information extraction for knowledge graph population, and multimodal scientific text mining.
I have the pleasure to co-supervise two PhD theses on transfer learning and continual learning for low-resource and multilingual NLP, and on NLP beyond sentences with a particular focus on table question answering.
News / Highlights
Our paper "Lost in Multilinguality: Dissecting Cross-lingual Factual Inconsistency in Transformer Language Models" (pdf) received the "SAC Highlights Award" at ACL 2025.
I serve as TACL action editor
Our paper "Human vs. AI: A Novel Benchmark and a Comparative Study on the Detection of Generated Images and the Impact of Prompts" (pdf) received the "Best Resource Paper Award" at the GenAIDetect Workshop 2025.
I serve as senior program committee member at AAAI 2023, 2024 and 2025.
I am an action editor at ARR 2024 and 2025.
2023 and older
I was Area Chair for EMNLP 2023 and ACL 2023 (machine learning track).
Our paper NLNDE at Sem-Eval 2023 Task 12 was nominated as best system paper!
2023: We were top-ranked at the AfriSenti SemEval shared task on sentiment analysis for African languages!
I was appointed professor for AI for audiovisual media at Hochschule der Medien in 2023.
I gave a talk at Women in Data Science 2022
I was Area Chair for Semantics at NAACL 2021
I was Demo Chair at EMNLP 2021
2021: We won the MEDDOPROF shared task on Spanish profession name extraction! (see our system description paper for more information)
2019: We won the MEDDOCAN shared task on Spanish document anonymization! (see our system description paper for more information)
I gave a practical session in the RANLP'19 Summer School on Deep Learning in Natural Language Processing (website)
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