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.
On these pages you can find more information about our group:
Flair
The Flair framework for state-of-the-art NLP
Our research
Transfer learning, universal representations, etc.
Our teaching
Information on courses for students
Open positions!
Our group is growing quickly so we are always looking for PhD candidates and student assistants to join our group!
Currently we have three open positions for PhD candidates (full time, fully-paid):
- one position to begin at the end of 2021
- two positions to begin in October 2022 (application deadline is already November 2021!)
For all three positions, the deadline is soon (October/November). Consider applying! Contact us in case of interest!
News
- 06.09.2021 - Research grant: DFG-funded project "Modeling Neurogenesis for Continuous Learning" in the Science of Intelligence cluster of excellence approved! Positions for PhD candidates available from October 2022!
- 30.08.2021 - New release: Flair (v0.9) released, adding speed and many new NLP tasks to Flair!
- 23.08.2021 - Research grant: DFG-funded project "Efficient Model Learning from Data with Partially Incorrect Labels" in the Science of Intelligence cluster of excellence approved! Positions for PhD candidates available from October 2022!
- 01.08.2021 - Research grant: The BMWi-funded project "ML-SEBIRA" with industry partner neofonie starts today! Positions available!
- 01.07.2021 - Paper accepted: Full paper on early predator detection accepted to ACL 2021!
- 01.05.2021 - Major research grant: The DFG-funded project "Eidetische Repräsentationen natürlicher Sprache" starts today. This is a massively funded 6-year project looking to advance the state of the art in neural language modeling (BERT, GPT-3). Many positions available in our group!
- 01.05.2021 - Research grant: The DFG-funded project "Neural Representations for Lifelong Learning" in the Science of Intelligence cluster of excellence starts today!
- 01.04.2021 - Research grant: The BMWi-funded project "ML-ENA" with industry partner deepset starts today! Positions available!
- 05.03.2021 - New release: Flair (v0.8) released, adding our powerful FLERT approach and HuggingFace model hub support to Flair!
- 01.03.2021 - Research grant: The IBB-funded project "AIM" with industry partners Ubermetrics and Webtrekk starts today!
