Isabelle Augenstein
@IAugenstein
Full Professor @CopeNLU @uni_copenhagen. Formerly @ucl_nlp, @SheffieldNLP. Explainable AI, Natural Language Processing, ML.
I'm so grateful to @bcs_irsg @TechAtBloomberg 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_EC…) bcs.org/membership-and… #NLProc @CopeNLU
🎓 Looking for PhD opportunities in #NLProc for a start in Spring 2026? 🗒️ Add your expression of interest to join @CopeNLU 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/fel…
⏰ TODAY is the poster submission deadline for the pre-@aclmeeting Workshop 🇩🇰! 📅 We've also finalised our schedule and speakers: @thamar_solorio, Smaranda Muresan, @david__jurgens, Nanyun Peng, @danish037, @kaiwei_chang, and @mishumausam aicentre.dk/events/pre-acl… @AiCentreDK
Join us in Copenhagen for the Pre-@aclmeeting 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… @AiCentreDK
Join us in Copenhagen for the Pre-@aclmeeting 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… @AiCentreDK
⏰Only one week left to apply for this fully funded PhD fellowship at @UCPH_Research& @AiCentreDK! Don’t miss the chance to explore interpretability for LLMs under my and @IAugenstein's supervision @CopeNLU
🎓 Great opportunity for a fully funded PhD in interpretable NLP at the @DIKU_Institut & @AiCentreDK with @IAugenstein 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
Happening now at #NAACL2025 in room Pecos. Kicking off with amazing talks and a panel by @monojitchou @IAugenstein & @KatiaShutova
📣 Excited about our Cross Cultural Considerations in NLP workshop! @c3_nlp @ @naaclmeeting coming up in no time—just two weeks to go! Full program here: c3nlp.github.io Co-org. w/ @sunipa17 @LucianaBenotti @daniel_hers @vinodkpg @YongCaoPlus @LiZhou21 @IfeAdebara ❤️
@IAugenstein 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…
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 @IAugenstein arxiv.org/abs/2406.17753
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 @NadavBorenstein @rnav_arora @frimelle @IAugenstein x.com/NadavBorenstei…
Ever wondered which subreddit is the most benevolent? In a new paper (preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2402.14177), @rnav_arora, @frimelle , @IAugenstein and @I annotated 6M posts across 10k subreddits with Schwartz values.
C3NLP Workshop #NAACL2025: @IAugenstein 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 @whoSiddheshp @rnav_arora @frimelle x.com/frimelle/statu… #NLProc
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 DeepSeek, Llama, Aya, Mistral-Nemo and GPT-4o-mini for presumed cultural identity based on names huggingface.co/papers/2502.11…
@YongCaoPlus Haijiang Liu, @rnav_arora @IAugenstein @paul_rottger @daniel_hers Specializing Large Language Models to Simulate Survey Response Distributions for Global Populations. arxiv.org/abs/2502.07068 #NAACL2025 #NLProc x.com/YongCaoPlus/st…
🎉 Excited to share our NAACL main paper on simulating survey response distributions via first-token alignment fine-tuning. Many thanks to our collaborators: Haijiang Liu, @rnav_arora @IAugenstein @paul_rottger and @daniel_hers. More details, paper link and code, see below👇
@JingyiSun_ @atanasovapepa @IAugenstein Evaluating Input Feature Explanations through a Unified Diagnostic Evaluation Framework. arxiv.org/abs/2406.15085 #NAACL2025 #NLProc x.com/JingyiSun_/sta…
✨ Thrilled to share that our paper, "Evaluating Input Feature Explanations through a Unified Diagnostic Evaluation Framework," has been accepted at NAACL 2025—with an Oral presentation! 🎉 A huge thank you to my incredible supervisors @Isabelle and @atanasovapepa . #NAACL2025
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 @atanasovapepa @rnav_arora @borenstein @frimelle @IAugenstein @JingyiSun_ #NLProc
🎓 Great opportunity for a fully funded PhD in interpretable NLP at the @DIKU_Institut & @AiCentreDK with @IAugenstein 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
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 (@IAugenstein) of @uni_copenhagen / @CopeNLU, ahead of her #ECIR2025 keynote today! bloom.bg/4jiF2sR
Many congratulations to the Karen Spärck Jones Award winner @IAugenstein! 👏 🎉 The award was presented @ecir2025 by @HaimingLiu1. We also thank our sponsor @BloombergUK, represented by @edgarmeij! #ecir2025
🎤 This morning at #ECIR2025 an inspiring keynote by Prof. Isabelle Augenstein @IAugenstein (University of Copenhagen), Karen Spärck Jones Award 2024 👏 Title "Understanding the Interplay between LLMs’ Utilisation of Parametric and Contextual Knowledge" 👉ecir2025.eu/keynote-speake…
🚨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