Pepa Atanasova
apepa.bsky.social
Pepa Atanasova
@apepa.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen; interpretability, xAI, factuality, accountability, xAI diagnostics https://apepa.github.io/
Reposted by Pepa Atanasova
What is the interaction dynamics between Parametric Knowledge (PK) and Context Knowledge (CK) in generating longer Natural Language Explanation (NLE) sequences?
November 6, 2025 at 3:02 AM
⏰ One week left to apply for the two PhD Fellowships in Trustworthy NLP and Explainable NLU! The two positions have a starting date in spring 2026. Check the original post for more details👇
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
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October 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Reposted by Pepa Atanasova
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
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October 3, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Reposted by Pepa Atanasova
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/
PhD fellowships for start in Spring or Autumn 2026 | CopeNLU
Would you like to join our lab as a PhD student in 2026? We have several openings. Read more about reasons to join CopeNLU here. Start in Spring 2026 We have two fully funded 3-year PhD fellowships av...
www.copenlu.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:54 AM
🎓 Fully funded PhD in Trustworthy NLP at the UCPH & @aicentre.dk with @iaugenstein.bsky.social and me, @copenlu.bsky.social
📆 Application deadline: 30 October 2025
👀 Reasons to apply: www.copenlu.com/post/why-ucph/
🔗 Apply here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
#NLProc #XAI #TrustworhyAI
September 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Reposted by Pepa Atanasova
📣 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
September 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Reposted by Pepa Atanasova
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
July 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Reposted by Pepa Atanasova
🎓 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...
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June 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
⏰ Poster submission deadline TODAY for the pre-@aclmeeting.bsky.social 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...
June 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Reposted by Pepa Atanasova
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...
May 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
⏰ 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
May 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Reposted by Pepa Atanasova
Jingyi Sun, @apepa.bsky.social, @iaugenstein.bsky.social. Evaluating Input Feature Explanations through a Unified Diagnostic Evaluation Framework.
arxiv.org/abs/2406.15085
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#NAACL2025 #NLProc
April 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Reposted by Pepa Atanasova
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
April 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🎓 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
Interested in joining us at the University of Copenhagen? | CopeNLU
The University of Copenhagen is a great place if you're both interested in high-quality NLP research and a high quality of life.
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April 11, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Reposted by Pepa Atanasova
🚨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
April 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Reposted by Pepa Atanasova
🎉 Our Actionable Interpretability workshop has been accepted to #ICML2025! 🎉
> Follow @actinterp.bsky.social
> Website actionable-interpretability.github.io

@talhaklay.bsky.social @anja.re @mariusmosbach.bsky.social @sarah-nlp.bsky.social @iftenney.bsky.social

Paper submission deadline: May 9th!
March 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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
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February 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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
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February 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Reposted by Pepa Atanasova
📚 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 ⭐️
A Reality Check on Context Utilisation for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) helps address the limitations of the parametric knowledge embedded within a language model (LM). However, investigations of how LMs utilise retrieved information o...
arxiv.org
January 2, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Reposted by Pepa Atanasova
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
February 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Reposted by Pepa Atanasova
📣 Open 3-year Postdoc Position at DIKU, UCPH!

Find more information and apply here: di.ku.dk/english/abou...

🗓️ Application deadline is 29 January 2025.
January 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Reposted by Pepa Atanasova
📢 Open PhD Position in Interpretable Natural Language Processing at the Department of Computer Science, UCPH!

🗓 Application deadline is 15 January 2025.

Find more information about the position and apply here 👉 di.ku.dk/english/abou...

@apepa.bsky.social @iaugenstein.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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.
🎓 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
January 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It was a pleasure collaborating with @lovhag.bsky.social on this project and exploring how language models handle different types of context retrieved by actual retrieval systems. We released a dataset 🧙DRUID to facilitate future studies on real-world context usage 🔗 huggingface.co/datasets/cop...
January 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Reposted by Pepa Atanasova
📢 NAACL reviews have been released!

🆕 feature alert: ARR now has review issue flagging! Thanks @jkkummerfeld.bsky.social & OR team for help with implementation, and other EiCs for supporting the idea! It'll be live after author response. More details here: aclrollingreview.org/authors#step...
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November 22, 2024 at 6:58 PM