CopeNLU had a blast attending @euripsconf.bsky.social last week -- thanks so much to the organisers (Søren Hauberg, @serge.belongie.com, Bernhard Schölkopf, Aasa Feragen) for putting this together! Non-scientific highlights were clearly the banquet dinner & the specially brewed EurIPA.

📢 PhD & postdoc call for start in autumn 2026 📢 Join a new interdisciplinary project on Human-Centered Explainable LLMs @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk ⏳ 1 Feb 2026 ℹ️ www.copenlu.com/news/funded-... 🗒️ employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=15... (PhD); employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... (Postdoc)

Back after a successful #EMNLP2025 conference in Suzhou, China -- some impressions ⤵️ Our papers: www.copenlu.com/news/8-paper... @apepa.bsky.social @rnv.bsky.social @siddesh.bsky.social @kirekara.bsky.social @shoejoe.bsky.social @zainmujahid.me @lucasresck.bsky.social @copenlu.bsky.social #NLProc

What is the interaction dynamics between Parametric Knowledge (PK) and Context Knowledge (CK) in generating longer Natural Language Explanation (NLE) sequences?

Attending EMNLP 2025 this week? So is CopeNLU -- come find us there! ⤵️ www.copenlu.com/news/8-paper... @apepa.bsky.social @rnv.bsky.social @kirekara.bsky.social @shoejoe.bsky.social @dustinbwright.com @zainmujahid.me @lucasresck.bsky.social @iaugenstein.bsky.social #NLProc #AI #EMNLP2025

Heading to #EMNLP2025? Interested in automatic summarization? Then come to our poster for "Unstructured Evidence Attribution for Long Context Query Focused Summarization" ! ⏰ When: Fri. Nov 7 14:00-15:30 🗺️ Where: Hall C I'm unable to attend but @iaugenstein.bsky.social will present our work!

⏲️ 🎓 Only a few days left to apply to do a PhD in Natural Language Processing with @apepa.bsky.social and me @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk! #NLProc #ML #XAI #phdpositions #academicjobs

Which, whose, and how much knowledge do LLMs represent? I'm excited to share our preprint answering these questions: "Epistemic Diversity and Knowledge Collapse in Large Language Models" 📄Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04226 💻Code: github.com/dwright37/ll... 1/10

Available #NLProc PhD positions: - Explainable NLU, main supervisor: myself, start in Spring 2026 tinyurl.com/3uset3dm - Trustworthy NLP, main supervisor: @apepa.bsky.social, start in Spring 2026 tinyurl.com/yxj8yk4m - Open-topic: express interest via ELLIS, start in Autumn 2026 tinyurl.com/2hcxexyx

Looking for PhD opportunites in #NLProc #XAI? We @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk @apepa.bsky.social are hiring for a start in Spring or Autumn 2026. 📆 Application deadline: 31 October 2025 ℹ️ Details: www.copenlu.com/news/phd-fel... 👀 Reasons to apply: www.copenlu.com/post/why-ucph/

- Fully funded PhD fellowship on Explainable NLU: apply by 31 October 2025, start in Spring 2026: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... - Open-topic PhD positions: express your interest through ELLIS by 31 October 2025, start in Autumn 2026: ellis.eu/news/ellis-p... #NLProc #XAI

📣 Looking for PhD opportunities in Natural Language Processing? Our group has several openings for a start in Spring or Autumn 2026 -- apply by 31 October: www.copenlu.com/news/phd-fel... #NLProc #XAI @copenlu.bsky.social @apepa.bsky.social @aicentre.dk

🎉 Our work on attribution in summarization is now accepted to #EMNLP2025 main! 🎉 "Unstructured Evidence Attribution for Long Context Query Focused Summarization" w/ @zainmujahid.me , Lu Wang, @iaugenstein.bsky.social , and @davidjurgens.bsky.social

Happy to share that our work on multi-modal framing analysis of news was accepted to #EMNLP2025! Understanding news output and embedded biases is especially important in today's environment and it's imperative to take a holistic look at it. Looking forward to presenting it in Suzhou!

🙋 How do Large Language Models internally process cultural knowledge? 🌐 Happy to share our new preprint "Entangled in Representations: Mechanistic Investigation of Cultural Biases in Large Language Models" 📃 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.08879

🚀 Excited to share our new preprint: BiasGym: Fantastic LLM Biases and How to Find (and Remove) Them 📄 Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.08855

Thanks for everyone who came to our #acl2025nlp presentations (even the informal ones). Hope to connect again at #emnlp2025! #NLProc @siddheshp.bsky.social @lovhag.bsky.social @saravera.bsky.social @nadavb.bsky.social @gretawarren.bsky.social @iaugenstein.bsky.social

Meet @iaugenstein.bsky.social, Prof at University of Copenhagen 🇩🇰, ELLIS Scholar, and member of ELLIS Unit Copenhagen (@aicentre.dk) + ELLIS Program #NLProc. Her advice to young women in science: “Success isn't just about tech skills. It's also about managing your career.” #WomenInELLIS

CopeNLU will give five paper presentations and one invited talk at #ACL2025NLP this week ⤵️ @apepa.bsky.social @rnv.bsky.social @nadavb.bsky.social @iaugenstein.bsky.social @gretawarren.bsky.social @saravera.bsky.social @lovhag.bsky.social @zainmujahid.me @siddheshp.bsky.social

And thanks again to all organisers and volunteers -- couldn't have done it without you 😊 @rnv.bsky.social @apepa.bsky.social @dustinbwright.com

Congrats to the best poster awardees! @ajyl.bsky.social Shared Geometry of LMs: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.21073 Antonia Karamolegkou, Multimodal LMs for Visual Impairment: aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon... @gretawarren.bsky.social Can Community Notes Replace Fact-Checkers? aclanthology.org/2025.acl-short

Thanks to our fantastic keynote speakers: Thamar Solorio @danishpruthi.bsky.social @tanumitra.bsky.social @davidjurgens.bsky.social @anjalief.bsky.social @dallascard.bsky.social and Mausam!

Thanks to everyone who joined us @aicentre.dk for the Pre-ACL 2025 workshop! We had 7 inspiring keynotes, 26 poster presentations, and there was time for informal mingling as well. Thanks to DSSA for the generous support. See some of you in Vienna for #acl2025nlp! #NLProc aicentre.dk/events/pre-acl

🎓 Looking for PhD opportunities in #NLProc for a start in Spring 2026? 🗒️ Add your expression of interest to join @copenlu.bsky.social here by 20 July: forms.office.com/e/HZSmgR9nXB Selected candidates will be invited to submit a DARA fellowship application with me: daracademy.dk/fellowship/f...

The LEADING reporting guideline is now published in Comprehensive Psychiatry 🥳 See www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Or read the previous summary 👇

Join us for the Pre-ACL 2025 Workshop in Copenhagen, 26 July, 2025! 🇩🇰 With international NLP experts from Columbia, UCLA, University of Michigan, and more to Copenhagen to meet with the Danish NLP community. 🇩🇰 📅 Poster submission deadline: June 16, 2025 🔗 Register: www.aicentre.dk/events/pre-a...

⏰ Poster submission deadline TODAY for the [email protected] Workshop 🇩🇰 📅 We've finalised our schedule and speakers: Thamar Solorio, Smaranda Muresan, @davidjurgens.bsky.social, Nanyun Peng, @danishpruthi.bsky.social , Kai-Wei Chang, and Mausam www.aicentre.dk/events/pre-a... @aicentre.dk

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

⏰ Only one week left to apply for this fully funded PhD fellowship at the University of Copenhagen & @aicentre.dk ! Don’t miss the chance to explore interpretability for LLMs under my and @iaugenstein.bsky.social's supervision @copenlu.bsky.social

@iaugenstein.bsky.social has been crowned last year’s winner of the Karen Spärck Jones Award. Her well-deserved trophy was awarded after delivering a very insightful keynote at ECIR 2025. Read our article in BCS Informer. medium.com/bcs-irsg-inf... We're seeking nominations for the next KSJ Award!

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 #NLProc Schedule + more details ⤵️ #XAI @apepa.bsky.social @rnv.bsky.social @nadavb.bsky.social @frimelle.bsky.social @iaugenstein.bsky.social

and... the official version of the paper is now out! 📄 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... 🌟 Work with Irina Shklovski & @iaugenstein.bsky.social looking forward to talking all things human-AI interaction, explainability and misinformation this week -- please reach out if you'd like to chat! 🤗

Having an amazing time so far in Yokohama for #CHI2025! 🌸 I'll be presenting our paper, Show Me the Work: Fact-Checkers' Requirements for Explainable Automated Fact-Checking, at the Explainable AI session tomorrow! ✨ 📅 Monday, April 28 | 4:56 PM 📍G303 🔗 programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

Thanks to @dustinbwright.com (@copenlu.bsky.social) and @mxij.me (@itu.dk) for sharing insights on your research within the collaboratory of Speech & Language, at the Last Fridays Talks!

🎓 Fully funded PhD in interpretable NLP at the University of Copenhagen & @aicentre.dk with @iaugenstein.bsky.social and me, @copenlu.bsky.social 📆 Application deadline: 15 May 2025 👀 Reasons to apply: www.copenlu.com/post/why-ucph/ 🔗 Apply here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... #NLProc #XAI

I'm so grateful to the British Computing Society & Bloomberg for honouring me with the Karen Spärck Jones Award 🙏 I gave the award lecture on LLMs’ Utilisation of Parametric & Contextual Knowledge at #ECIR2025 today (slides: isabelleaugenstein.github.io/slides/2025_...) www.bcs.org/membership-a...

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

Massive congrats to @kirekara.bsky.social for successfully defending his PhD thesis on mitigating reasoning inconsistencies! 🎉 🍾 👏 👏👏 osoblanco.github.io/thesis/ Thanks to @delliott.bsky.social, @barbaraplank.bsky.social & Ivan Titov for serving on the committee. @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk

Massive congrats to @nadavb.bsky.social for passing his PhD defence yesterday! 👏👏👏 Thanks to Anders Søgaard, @radamihalcea.bsky.social @ricosennrich.bsky.social for serving as examiners. You can find his thesis here, which the committee characterised as "a joy to read": arxiv.org/abs/2503.07395

Thank you to those who came to my lecture on #NLProc fundamentals at #KHIPU2025! You can find my slides here: isabelleaugenstein.github.io/slides/2025_... @khipu-ai.bsky.social

New preprint: "Unstructured Evidence Attribution for Long Context Query Focused Summarization" We propose *unstructured* evidence attribution for long context summarization and a synthetic dataset called SUnsET which can help models perform this task. Paper link: arxiv.org/abs/2502.14409 Thread ⬇️

🚨 Preprint alert 🚨 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭-𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬? (arxiv.org/abs/2502.14132) Fact-checking agencies have come under intense scrutiny in recent months regarding their role in combating misinformation on social media.

When I say my name, people start speaking French to me, although my French is basic. That also happens with AI systems. We wrote a whole paper on that, testing across models for presumed cultural identity based on names w/ Siddhesh Pawar @rnv.bsky.social @iaugenstein.bsky.social

Our work comparing highlight and interactive explanations has been accepted to #NAACL2025! arxiv.org/pdf/2406.15085 Despite being a less explored approach, span interactive explanations outperform other explanation types across multiple dimensions. #XAI #NLProc @copenlu.bsky.social

Check our new work on making natural language explanations more faithful to a model’s reasoning. We combine GNNs + highlight explanations to improve faithfulness! Read more: arxiv.org/pdf/2412.12318 @copenlu.bsky.social

How can explainable AI empower fact-checkers to tackle misinformation? 📰🤖 We interviewed fact-checkers & identified explanation needs & design implications for #NLP, #HCI, and #XAI. Excited to present this work with @iaugenstein.bsky.social & Irina Shklovski at #chi2025! arxiv.org/abs/2502.09083

📄 New preprint: "Collecting Cost-Effective, High-Quality Truthfulness Assessments with LLM Summarized Evidence" We show: fact checking w/ crowd workers is more efficient when using LLM summaries, quality doesn't suffer. arxiv.org/abs/2501.18265

Only two weeks⌛️left to apply for this fully funded PhD fellowship in Interpretable NLP at the University of Copenhagen & @aicentre.dk! Don’t miss the chance to explore interpretability for LLMs under my and @iaugenstein.bsky.social's supervision.

📚 How good are language models at utilising contexts in RAG scenarios? We release 🧙🏽‍♀️DRUID to facilitate studies of context usage in real-world scenarios. arxiv.org/abs/2412.17031 w/ @saravera.bsky.social, H.Yu, @rnv.bsky.social, C.Lioma, M.Maistro, @apepa.bsky.social and @iaugenstein.bsky.social ⭐️

🎓 Fully funded PhD Fellowship in Interpretable NLP at the University of Copenhagen & Pioneer Centre for AI available! 📆 Application deadline: 15 Jan 2025 👥 Supervisors: Pepa Atanasova & me 🤝 Reasons to apply: www.copenlu.com/post/why-ucph/ 📝 Apply here: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16... #NLProc #XAI