Michael A. Hedderich
@mhedderich.bsky.social
Research group leader at LMU Munich and MCML on ML, NLP & HCI. Also experimenting with lemonade that glows in the dark 🥤 (he/him)
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What changes if you take the LLM prompt “Tell me a short story about Dr. Li” and replace “Dr. Li” with “Dr. Smith”?
Would you have guessed that this introduces a massive gender bias, from ca. half/half to 99% male doctors?
In our #ACL2025 paper we present the Spotlight framework which...
Would you have guessed that this introduces a massive gender bias, from ca. half/half to 99% male doctors?
In our #ACL2025 paper we present the Spotlight framework which...
MCML just started again a call for their very competitive but also really nice, fully funded PhD positions.
These positions are matched to research groups at both TUM and LMU, including my group and the other great ML and NLP groups here in Munich 😄
These positions are matched to research groups at both TUM and LMU, including my group and the other great ML and NLP groups here in Munich 😄
𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: We are offering several PhD positions across our various research areas, open to highly qualified candidates.
‼️ The application portal will be open from 15 October to 14 November 2025.
Find out more: mcml.ai/opportunitie...
‼️ The application portal will be open from 15 October to 14 November 2025.
Find out more: mcml.ai/opportunitie...
October 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
MCML just started again a call for their very competitive but also really nice, fully funded PhD positions.
These positions are matched to research groups at both TUM and LMU, including my group and the other great ML and NLP groups here in Munich 😄
These positions are matched to research groups at both TUM and LMU, including my group and the other great ML and NLP groups here in Munich 😄
Excited to share that our survey paper "Charting the Landscape of African NLP: Mapping Progress and Shaping the Road Ahead" lead by Jesujoba Alabi has been accepted at #EMNLP2025! Here’s a short 🧵 about the paper.
October 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Excited to share that our survey paper "Charting the Landscape of African NLP: Mapping Progress and Shaping the Road Ahead" lead by Jesujoba Alabi has been accepted at #EMNLP2025! Here’s a short 🧵 about the paper.
Reposted by Michael A. Hedderich
Headed to ACL? MaiNLP & our most recent work will be there too👥📄
Come see what we’ve been working on!
Come see what we’ve been working on!
July 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Headed to ACL? MaiNLP & our most recent work will be there too👥📄
Come see what we’ve been working on!
Come see what we’ve been working on!
Looking forward to my visit to Hamburg University and their Data Science group!
Our group is launching a monthly seminar series! Next week, we will have @mhedderich.bsky.social from LMU Munich, who will give a talk at our seminar.
Date: July 16
Time: 10.00 - 11.30 am CET
You can either attend the seminar via Zoom or in-person. Register here if you are interested.
Date: July 16
Time: 10.00 - 11.30 am CET
You can either attend the seminar via Zoom or in-person. Register here if you are interested.
University of Hamburg Data Science Group Seminar
This is the signup form for University of Hamburg Group Seminar. Please fill your details in here. You will be sent the zoom link a few hours before the lecture, if your details are valid.
Details fo...
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July 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Looking forward to my visit to Hamburg University and their Data Science group!
What changes if you take the LLM prompt “Tell me a short story about Dr. Li” and replace “Dr. Li” with “Dr. Smith”?
Would you have guessed that this introduces a massive gender bias, from ca. half/half to 99% male doctors?
In our #ACL2025 paper we present the Spotlight framework which...
Would you have guessed that this introduces a massive gender bias, from ca. half/half to 99% male doctors?
In our #ACL2025 paper we present the Spotlight framework which...
July 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
What changes if you take the LLM prompt “Tell me a short story about Dr. Li” and replace “Dr. Li” with “Dr. Smith”?
Would you have guessed that this introduces a massive gender bias, from ca. half/half to 99% male doctors?
In our #ACL2025 paper we present the Spotlight framework which...
Would you have guessed that this introduces a massive gender bias, from ca. half/half to 99% male doctors?
In our #ACL2025 paper we present the Spotlight framework which...
Interpretability meets Discourse. Congratulations to
@florian-eichin.com to his first ACL paper 🎉
@florian-eichin.com to his first ACL paper 🎉
🦙 how well do LLMs encode discourse knowledge? does that generalize across languages?
🛎️ in our #ACL2025 paper, we uncover fascinating trends about multilingual discourse representations!
joint work w/ @florian-eichin.com @barbaraplank.bsky.social @mhedderich.bsky.social
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2503.10515
🛎️ in our #ACL2025 paper, we uncover fascinating trends about multilingual discourse representations!
joint work w/ @florian-eichin.com @barbaraplank.bsky.social @mhedderich.bsky.social
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2503.10515
July 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Interpretability meets Discourse. Congratulations to
@florian-eichin.com to his first ACL paper 🎉
@florian-eichin.com to his first ACL paper 🎉
Reposted by Michael A. Hedderich
Want to know if your prompting is also affected by this? Addressing this and other issues systematically, we proposed Spotlight, which utilizes data mining to uncover the effects of prompt- and model-changes (meet us at ACL to discuss)
arxiv.org/abs/2504.15815
arxiv.org/abs/2504.15815
May 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Want to know if your prompting is also affected by this? Addressing this and other issues systematically, we proposed Spotlight, which utilizes data mining to uncover the effects of prompt- and model-changes (meet us at ACL to discuss)
arxiv.org/abs/2504.15815
arxiv.org/abs/2504.15815
Reposted by Michael A. Hedderich
Are you attending NAACL 2025 and are you interested in low-resource languages and dialects?
Then don't miss our very own @verenablaschke.bsky.social's keynote talk at the WNUT 2025 workshop on May 3rd:
Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data
🌐 ☀️
noisy-text.github.io/2025/
Then don't miss our very own @verenablaschke.bsky.social's keynote talk at the WNUT 2025 workshop on May 3rd:
Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data
🌐 ☀️
noisy-text.github.io/2025/
April 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Are you attending NAACL 2025 and are you interested in low-resource languages and dialects?
Then don't miss our very own @verenablaschke.bsky.social's keynote talk at the WNUT 2025 workshop on May 3rd:
Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data
🌐 ☀️
noisy-text.github.io/2025/
Then don't miss our very own @verenablaschke.bsky.social's keynote talk at the WNUT 2025 workshop on May 3rd:
Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data
🌐 ☀️
noisy-text.github.io/2025/
Happy to be part of that team for almost 1/3 of that time 😀
🎉MaiNLP is turning 3 today!🎂🥳 We’ve grown a lot since @barbaraplank.bsky.social started this group with nothing but three aspiring researches and a hand-drawn sign on the door. Huge thanks to all the amazing people who have joined or visited us since. Here’s to many more years of exciting research!🚀
April 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Happy to be part of that team for almost 1/3 of that time 😀