Machine Learning Group – Prof. Dr. Alan Akbik
Our group focuses on research in machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP). We aim to give machines the ability to understand and use human language. To achieve this, our group develops the Flair framework for automated text analysis. It is already used in hundreds of research projects and industrial applications and is frequently listed among the most popular deep learning frameworks for NLP.
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Open positions!
Our group is growing quickly thanks to many DFG projects and industrial collaborations, so we are always looking for PhD candidates and student assistants to join our group. Contact us in case of interest!
News
- 13.03.2024 - New paper (NAACL 2024): Our paper "BEAR: A Unified Framework for Evaluating Relational Knowledge in Causal and Masked Language Models" accepted to NAACL 2024!
- 01.03.2024 - New research grant (BMBF): The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) approved a new research grant for a 3-year project together with industry partner dida Datenschmiede!
- 22.02.2024 - New paper: Our paper "HunFlair2 in a cross-corpus evaluation of named entity recognition and normalization tools" now on ArXiv!
- 20.02.2024 - New paper (COLING 2024): Our paper "PECC: Problem Extraction and Coding Challenges" accepted to COLING 2024!
- 31.01.2024 - New paper: Our paper "SemScore: Automated Evaluation of Instruction-Tuned LLMs based on Semantic Textual Similarity" now on ArXiv!
- 18.01.2024 - Two new papers (EACL 2024): Our full papers "Large-Scale Label Interpretation Learning for Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition" and "Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning: Is There An Optimal Subset of Parameters to Tune?" accepted to EACL 2024!
- 18.12.2023 - Open Source Release: New version of Flair (v0.13.1) released!
- 08.10.2023 - New Paper (EMNLP 2023): Our full paper "CleanCoNLL: A Nearly Noise-Free Named Entity Recognition Dataset" accepted to EMNLP 2023!
- 30.09.2023 - New Paper (EMNLP 2023): Our paper "Fabricator: An Open Source Toolkit for Generating Labeled Training Data with Teacher LLMs" accepted to EMNLP 2023: System Demonstrations!
- 08.09.2023 - OpinionGPT v2: Our new version of OpinionGPT now models explicit biases for English that you can select in our web demo! Details in our paper!
- 10.07.2023 - Outstanding Reviewer Award (ACL 2023): Our group wins Outstanding Reviewer Award at ACL 2023
- 11.05.2023 - OpinionGPT: Our German-langauge OpinionGPT now available as web demo!
- 05.05.2023 - Outstanding Paper Award (EACL 2023): Our paper "ZELDA: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Supervised Entity Disambiguation" wins Outstanding Paper Award at EACL 2023!