Trustworthy AI Lab

🎓 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗱𝗶𝘀!

Congratulations to @tresiwald.bsky.social on the successful defense of his dissertation “𝘈𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘝𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯”, held at Technische Universität Darmstadt on February 17th, 2026.

Jakob Prange from UKE presented on "The Language of Addiction": a computational linguistics perspective on child and adolescent psychiatry. Exciting to see interdisciplinary research bridging computational linguistics and mental health.

Great talk at our Data Science Lab this week!

Jakob Prange from UKE presented on "The Language of Addiction": a computational linguistics perspective on child and adolescent psychiatry. Exciting to see interdisciplinary research bridging computational linguistics and mental health.

Deadline extension alert! Identity-aware AI #LREC2026 extended to February 25th! All info at: identity-aware-ai.github.io

Deadline approaching! Identity-aware AI workshop #LREC2026 identity-aware-ai.github.io, there is time until Feb 20th to submit a short or full paper, with many non-archival options too!

For our weekly reading group, Afshin Karimi presented "What Social Media Use Do People Regret? An Analysis of 34K Smartphone Screenshots with Multimodal LLM". Super interesting discussion!

Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

#NLProc

Holidays over, reading group resumes 📖
Today Henning Hoffmann presented the paper "Music for All: Representational Bias and Cross-Cultural Adaptability of Music Generation Models"

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.07328

#NLProc

This week at reading group 📚
@pranav-nlp.bsky.social presented "You Cannot Sound Like GPT": Signs of language discrimination and resistance in computer science publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.08127

#NLProc

Ausschreibung

Benefits: 30 days vacation, flexible hours, work-life balance, health programs (EGYM), pension, professional development.

Hamburg is a vibrant, international city with a great quality of life!

Full details & application: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

We're looking for researchers passionate about:

Ethical & safe generative AI
Multilingual/multicultural AI
Multimodality & agentic systems
Model interpretability

Strong pub record in *CL/AI/ML/FAccT conferences etc. valued. We're a dynamic, well-connected team committed to diversity!

Exciting postdoc opportunity in Trustworthy AI & NLP with @a-lauscher.bsky.social!

Work on cutting-edge generative AI while addressing ethics, fairness, multilingualism & sustainability. 3-year position, teaching included.

Deadline: March 2
Start: June 1, 2026

Submission deadline: February 20, 2026
Notification: Late March
Workshop: May 16 (hybrid format)

We look forward for your submissions!

You can submit archival papers (4-8 pages) that get published in LREC proceedings, non-archival versions if your paper is published elsewhere, or creative formats like art, poetry, TikToks, blogs, and teaching materials.

We're looking for works on bias detection and fairness interventions, perspectivism, policymaking, auditing, and related topics that center identity in NLP.

AI is developed in a way that amplifies the majority. Current approaches harm marginalized communities and ignore identity in AI systems. This workshop challenges the harmful assumption that NLP should treat all humans as the same.

We are organizing the Identity-Aware NLP Workshop at LREC 2026 (Palma de Mallorca, May 16). #LREC2026

More info: identity-aware-ai.github.io

Decision-Making with Deliberation: Meta-reviewing as a Document-grounded Dialogue by @sukannya.bsky.social, @nilsdy.bsky.social, @a-lauscher.bsky.social, and @igurevych.bsky.social.

SoS: Analysis of Surface over Semantics in Multilingual Text-To-Image Generation by @carolin-holtermann.bsky.social, @floschne-nlp.bsky.social, @a-lauscher.bsky.social.

TempViz: On the Evaluation of Temporal Knowledge in Text-to-Image Models by @carolin-holtermann.bsky.social, Nina Krebs, and @a-lauscher.bsky.social.

Glad to announce that three papers from our group got accepted to #EACL2026! The details of the papers are in the thread:

Check out the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.13835

✨Congratulations to all the amazing authors of this work ✨: @minhducbui.bsky.social @carolin-holtermann.bsky.social @valentinhofmann.bsky.social @a-lauscher.bsky.social

“You speak Bavarian? Then you must be uneducated + closed-minded.”

🤯 Not your opinion? Good. But it might be your LLM’s!!

🧵 Check out our #EMNLP2025 paper, where we uncover concerning dialect bias in recent LLMs - including GPT-5.

#AI #Bias #Dialect #Fairness #LLM #NLProc #Safety

Big congratulations to all our talented researchers and collaborators who made this possible, including @carolin-holtermann.bsky.social, @a-lauscher.bsky.social, @pranav-nlp.bsky.social, and our amazing international collaborators! Looking forward to seeing you all in November.

Announcement poster for Data Science Lab Hamburg papers at EMNLP 2025. Header shows "Data Science Lab Hamburg papers to be presented at" followed by the EMNLP 2025 conference logo in red and black, indicating the conference location as Suzhou, China (中国苏州) on November 04-09. Main Conference Papers section lists three research papers: Large Language Models Discriminate Against Speakers of German Dialects (by M D Bui, C Holtermann, V Hofmann and A Lauscher) Mind the Inclusivity Gap: Multilingual Gender-Neutral Translation Evaluation with mGeNTE (by B Savoldi, G Attanasio, and others including A Lauscher and L Bentivogli) How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate across Languages? Towards Multilingual Estimation of LLM Hallucination in the Wild (by S Obaid UI Islam, A Lauscher and Goran Glavaš) Findings Papers section lists one paper: Glitter: A Multi-Sentence, Multi-Reference Benchmark for Gender-Fair German Machine Translation (by Pranav A, J Hackenbuchner, G Attanasio, M Lardelli and Anne Lauscher) The poster features the Data Science Lab Hamburg circular logo in the bottom right corner.

Excited to share that Data Science Lab Hamburg will be presenting 4 papers at #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou, China! 🇨🇳 Our team has been pushing the boundaries of multilingual AI research. Here's what we're bringing 👇

🪶 #EMNLP2025 is currently seeking applications for Birds-of-a-Feather and Affinity Group Events, as additional networking opportunities for EMNLP participants. 🪶

Please see this page and submit your application before 26 September, 2025 11:59pm (AoE): 2025.emnlp.org/calls/bof/

Around the World in 24 Hours: Probing LLM Knowledge of Time and Place Carolin Holtermann, Paul Röttger, Anne Lauscher. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2025.

Finally, I will be with @carolin-holtermann.bsky.social and @a-lauscher.bsky.social to present our work on evaluating geotemporal reasoning ability in LLMs. This will be in the Wednesday 1100 poster session:

aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...

🔴 LIVE NOW: The first keynote of the Gender Bias in NLP workshop!

@a-lauscher.bsky.social is telling A Fairy Tale of Gender in Language Technology.

#ACL2025 #GeBNLP #NLP

@a-lauscher.bsky.social outlining the magic formula for fighting gender bias in NLP:

✨ critical thinking
✨ transparency
✨ interdisciplinarity
✨ community building

And we're putting that last point into practice right now! Come build community with us 🤝

#GeBNLP #NLP #ACL2025

📝 We welcome diverse submissions:

Long/short papers
Creative formats (art, videos, notebooks!)
Student projects

🌍 Hybrid format (in-person and online) with mentorship available

For more details, view our website!

Our topics span:
🔍 Personalization & perspectivist methods
⚖️ Bias detection & fairness in LLMs
👥 Sociodemographics in AI systems
🗳️ Modeling socio-political phenomena
🧠 NLP × social psychology
📊 Survey science & AI accountability

Identity-Aware AI Workshop announcement. Co-located with ECAI 2025 in Bologna on October 25, with submission deadline August 22. Topics include: Methods for effective, fair, and inclusive AI; Critiques of AI on the exclusion of identities; Methods for detecting and controlling bias; Perspectivist approaches to AI. Submission types: Long papers (8 pages), Short papers (4 pages), Extended abstracts, Mixed-media submissions (videos, blogs, codebase, artworks). For details, visit: identity-aware-ai.github.io

Wondering what makes each of us unique and how AI should handle human diversity? 🤔

We're organizing Identity-Aware AI workshop at #ECAI2025 Bologna on Oct 25.

Deadline: Aug 22
Website: identity-aware-ai.github.io