Massive congrats to Nadav Borenstein for passing his PhD defence yesterday! 👏👏👏 Thanks to Anders Søgaard, Rada Mihalcea Rico Sennrich for serving as examiners. You can find his thesis here, which the committee characterised as "a joy to read": arxiv.org/abs/2503.07395

🚨New pre-print 🚨 News often conveys different things in text vs. image. Recent work in comp. framing analysis has analysed the article text but the corresponding images have been overlooked. We propose multi-modal framing analysis of news: arxiv.org/abs/2503.20960

Bloomberg's #AI Engineering Group is proud to sponsor BCS IRSG's Karen Spärck Jones (KSJ) Award for 2024 - and we congratulate its recipient, Professor Isabelle Augenstein (Isabelle Augenstein) of University of Copenhagen / CopeNLU, ahead of her #ECIR2025 keynote today! bloom.bg/4jiF2sR

Many congratulations to the Karen Spärck Jones Award winner Isabelle Augenstein! 👏 🎉 The award was presented ECIR2025 by Haiming Liu. We also thank our sponsor Bloomberg UK, represented by Edgar Meij! #ecir2025

🎤 This morning at #ECIR2025 an inspiring keynote by Prof. Isabelle Augenstein Isabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen), Karen Spärck Jones Award 2024 👏 Title "Understanding the Interplay between LLMs’ Utilisation of Parametric and Contextual Knowledge" 👉ecir2025.eu/keynote-speake…

🎓 Great opportunity for a fully funded PhD in interpretable NLP at the DIKU - Department of Computer Science, UCPH & Pioneer Centre for AI with Isabelle Augenstein and me CopeNLU! 📆 Application deadline: 15 May 2025 👀 Reasons to apply: copenlu.com/post/why-ucph/ 🔗 Apply here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni… #NLProc #XAI

The CopeNLU group will be giving four paper presentations and one invited talk at #NAACL2025 this week, on topics including explainable AI and cross-cultural Schedule + more details ⤵️ #XAI Pepa Atanasova Arnav Arora sarah borenstein Lucie-Aimée Kaffee Isabelle Augenstein Jingyi Sun #NLProc

Jingyi Sun Pepa Atanasova Isabelle Augenstein Evaluating Input Feature Explanations through a Unified Diagnostic Evaluation Framework. arxiv.org/abs/2406.15085 #NAACL2025 #NLProc x.com/JingyiSun_/sta…

Yong Cao Haijiang Liu, Arnav Arora Isabelle Augenstein Paul Röttger Daniel Hershcovich Specializing Large Language Models to Simulate Survey Response Distributions for Global Populations. arxiv.org/abs/2502.07068 #NAACL2025 #NLProc x.com/YongCaoPlus/st…

C3NLP Workshop #NAACL2025: Isabelle Augenstein will present on tailoring LLM outputs to cultures, including where implicit cultural personalisation based on names leads to over-simplification arxiv.org/abs/2502.11995 Siddhesh Pawar Arnav Arora Lucie-Aimée Kaffee x.com/frimelle/statu… #NLProc

In "Investigating Human Values in Online Communities", we perform a high-scale study of the unique values expressed by online communities arxiv.org/abs/2402.14177 #NAACL2025 #NLProc Nadav Borenstein Arnav Arora Lucie-Aimée Kaffee Isabelle Augenstein x.com/NadavBorenstei…

Lastly, we'll present "Measuring and Benchmarking LLMs' Capabilities to Generate Persuasive Language", finding that personas in system prompts change persuasiveness substantially, even when only instructed to paraphrase #NAACL2025 #NLProc Isabelle Augenstein arxiv.org/abs/2406.17753

Isabelle Augenstein has been crowned last year’s winner of the Karen Spärck Jones Award. Her well-deserved trophy was awarded after delivering a highly insightful keynote at ECIR 2025. Read our article in BCS Informer. medium.com/bcs-irsg-infor…

Happening now at #NAACL2025 in room Pecos. Kicking off with amazing talks and a panel by Monojit Choudhury Isabelle Augenstein & Katia Shutova

⏰Only one week left to apply for this fully funded PhD fellowship at University of Copenhagen Research& Pioneer Centre for AI! Don’t miss the chance to explore interpretability for LLMs under my and Isabelle Augenstein's supervision CopeNLU

Join us in Copenhagen for the Pre-ACL 2025 Workshop! 🇩🇰 We’re excited to welcome researchers and practitioners in #NLProc, Generative AI & Language Technology to a 1-day workshop on 26 July – just ahead of ACL 2025 in Vienna. Learn more: aicentre.dk/events/pre-acl… Pioneer Centre for AI

🚨 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭-𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫?🚨 We’re excited to share our new perspective paper: "Community Moderation and the New Epistemology of Fact Checking on Social Media" 📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2505.20067 w/