Data Science Hamburg Group
@ds-hamburg.bsky.social
Data Science research group on AI ethics and multicultural NLP, led by @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
🤯 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
September 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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 👇
September 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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 👇
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🪶 #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/
Please see this page and submit your application before 26 September, 2025 11:59pm (AoE): 2025.emnlp.org/calls/bof/
Call for Birds-of-a-Feather and Affinity Group Events
Official website for the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
2025.emnlp.org
September 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
🪶 #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/
Please see this page and submit your application before 26 September, 2025 11:59pm (AoE): 2025.emnlp.org/calls/bof/
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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...
aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...
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.
aclanthology.org
July 28, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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...
aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...
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🔴 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 is telling A Fairy Tale of Gender in Language Technology.
#ACL2025 #GeBNLP #NLP
August 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
🔴 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 is telling A Fairy Tale of Gender in Language Technology.
#ACL2025 #GeBNLP #NLP
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@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
✨ 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
August 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM
@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
✨ 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
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
We're organizing Identity-Aware AI workshop at #ECAI2025 Bologna on Oct 25.
Deadline: Aug 22
Website: identity-aware-ai.github.io
July 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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
We're organizing Identity-Aware AI workshop at #ECAI2025 Bologna on Oct 25.
Deadline: Aug 22
Website: identity-aware-ai.github.io
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🎙𝗚𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝗨𝗞𝗣 𝗟𝗮𝗯
This Friday, we had the pleasure of hosting @a-lauscher.bsky.social, Associate Professor of @ds-hamburg.bsky.social, for a guest talk at the @ukplab.bsky.social.
This Friday, we had the pleasure of hosting @a-lauscher.bsky.social, Associate Professor of @ds-hamburg.bsky.social, for a guest talk at the @ukplab.bsky.social.
July 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🎙𝗚𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝗨𝗞𝗣 𝗟𝗮𝗯
This Friday, we had the pleasure of hosting @a-lauscher.bsky.social, Associate Professor of @ds-hamburg.bsky.social, for a guest talk at the @ukplab.bsky.social.
This Friday, we had the pleasure of hosting @a-lauscher.bsky.social, Associate Professor of @ds-hamburg.bsky.social, for a guest talk at the @ukplab.bsky.social.
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
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July 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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.
🧵Excited to share that Data Science Lab Hamburg will be presenting 6 papers at #ACL2025 in Vienna! 🇦🇹 Our team has been working on cutting-edge research in multilingual AI, peer review analysis, and combating online harms. Here's what we're bringing to the conference 👇
June 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
🧵Excited to share that Data Science Lab Hamburg will be presenting 6 papers at #ACL2025 in Vienna! 🇦🇹 Our team has been working on cutting-edge research in multilingual AI, peer review analysis, and combating online harms. Here's what we're bringing to the conference 👇
Check out our new project using AI to revolutionize X-ray laser operations, featuring our PhD student Afshin Karimi. We're developing LLMs that analyze technical docs and control data to help operators troubleshoot complex synchrotron and XFEL systems, reducing costly downtime.
New research project to optimize laser operations
Faculties
www.bwl.uni-hamburg.de
May 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Check out our new project using AI to revolutionize X-ray laser operations, featuring our PhD student Afshin Karimi. We're developing LLMs that analyze technical docs and control data to help operators troubleshoot complex synchrotron and XFEL systems, reducing costly downtime.
Our dataset research collaboration on SHADES was recently covered in WIRED, featuring Margaret Mitchell's interview. Check it out here:
AI Is Spreading Old Stereotypes to New Languages and Cultures
Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, tells WIRED about a new dataset designed to test AI models for bias in multiple languages.
www.wired.com
May 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Our dataset research collaboration on SHADES was recently covered in WIRED, featuring Margaret Mitchell's interview. Check it out here:
We recently hosted @mxij.me from the IT University of Copenhagen's NLPnorth Lab for our speaker series. He presented a talk titled 'How Language Model Learning Dynamics Shape Social Inclusion.'
May 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
We recently hosted @mxij.me from the IT University of Copenhagen's NLPnorth Lab for our speaker series. He presented a talk titled 'How Language Model Learning Dynamics Shape Social Inclusion.'
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If you are interested in the relationship between what is happening INSIDE 🔍 of our models 🤖 and OUTSIDE 🏞️ of our models 🤖, consider submitting to our workshop at COLM. #LLM #NLProc
🚨🚨 Studying the INTERPLAY of LMs' internals and behavior?
Join our
@colmweb.org
workshop on comprehensivly evaluating LMs.
Deadline: June 23rd
CfP: shorturl.at/sBomu
Page: shorturl.at/FT3fX
We're excited to see your insights and methods!!
See you in Montréal 🇨🇦 #nlproc #interpretability
Join our
@colmweb.org
workshop on comprehensivly evaluating LMs.
Deadline: June 23rd
CfP: shorturl.at/sBomu
Page: shorturl.at/FT3fX
We're excited to see your insights and methods!!
See you in Montréal 🇨🇦 #nlproc #interpretability
May 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Happy that our work on multicultural hate meme detection was honored with an Outstanding Paper Award at #NAACL2025! 🏆 This effort was led by
@minhducbui.bsky.social during the time he spent as a visiting researcher with us — congratulations, Duc!🚀 #LLMs #NLProc
@minhducbui.bsky.social during the time he spent as a visiting researcher with us — congratulations, Duc!🚀 #LLMs #NLProc
🏆 Our paper has received the Outstanding Paper Award at NAACL 2025! 🎉 Many thanks to my co-authors Katharina von der Wense and @a-lauscher.bsky.social .social!
We introduce Multi3Hate, a novel multimodal and multilingual parallel hate speech dataset annotated by a multicultural set of annotators.
We introduce Multi3Hate, a novel multimodal and multilingual parallel hate speech dataset annotated by a multicultural set of annotators.
May 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Happy that our work on multicultural hate meme detection was honored with an Outstanding Paper Award at #NAACL2025! 🏆 This effort was led by
@minhducbui.bsky.social during the time he spent as a visiting researcher with us — congratulations, Duc!🚀 #LLMs #NLProc
@minhducbui.bsky.social during the time he spent as a visiting researcher with us — congratulations, Duc!🚀 #LLMs #NLProc
At SAP Research Day, Prof. Anne Lauscher (@a-lauscher.bsky.social ) delivered a keynote on "Fair and Inclusive Generative AI." She stressed the importance of embedding fairness and diversity in AI design and deployment for positive societal impact. More here: www.bwl.uni-hamburg.de/ueber-die-fa...
Prof. Dr. Anne Lauscher hält Keynote Talk zum Thema „Faire und inklusive generative KI“
www.bwl.uni-hamburg.de
April 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
At SAP Research Day, Prof. Anne Lauscher (@a-lauscher.bsky.social ) delivered a keynote on "Fair and Inclusive Generative AI." She stressed the importance of embedding fairness and diversity in AI design and deployment for positive societal impact. More here: www.bwl.uni-hamburg.de/ueber-die-fa...
Today, in Saarland University at @i2sc.net, @pranav-nlp.bsky.social gave a talk on policy impact, focusing on loopholes in EU AI act and name change policies in academia.
@pranav-nlp.bsky.social is speaking at the @i2sc.net about how seemingly neutral policies can cause harm when developed without input from marginalized communities, with examples from the AI Act and name change policies in academia
April 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Today, in Saarland University at @i2sc.net, @pranav-nlp.bsky.social gave a talk on policy impact, focusing on loopholes in EU AI act and name change policies in academia.
Feature post in Nature for our research: @a-lauscher.bsky.social, Kaiser & Eichler demonstrate LLMs as assistants for particle accelerator optimization. Their study tested 14 models for managing electron accelerator through natural language interactions. More here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Particle accelerators get an assist from AI co-pilots
Large language models can propose fine-tuning adjustments for an electron accelerator in Germany.
www.nature.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Feature post in Nature for our research: @a-lauscher.bsky.social, Kaiser & Eichler demonstrate LLMs as assistants for particle accelerator optimization. Their study tested 14 models for managing electron accelerator through natural language interactions. More here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Wie divers sind eigentlich KI-Modelle – und warum spielt das eine Rolle? Unsere Forschung mit @a-lauscher.bsky.social and @carolin-holtermann.bsky.social zeigt, dass vielfältige Trainingsdaten entscheidend für faire und sichere KI-Systeme sind.
Mehr dazu: www.uni-hamburg.de/newsroom/for...
Mehr dazu: www.uni-hamburg.de/newsroom/for...
Wie schaffen wir eine KI, die kulturelle Vielfalt repräsentiert?
Anne Lauscher und Carolin Holtermann erforschen an der University of Hamburg Business School, wie man verzerrten KI-Darstellungen entgegenwirken kann.
www.uni-hamburg.de
March 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Wie divers sind eigentlich KI-Modelle – und warum spielt das eine Rolle? Unsere Forschung mit @a-lauscher.bsky.social and @carolin-holtermann.bsky.social zeigt, dass vielfältige Trainingsdaten entscheidend für faire und sichere KI-Systeme sind.
Mehr dazu: www.uni-hamburg.de/newsroom/for...
Mehr dazu: www.uni-hamburg.de/newsroom/for...
📣 Thrilled to announce that the Data Science Lab Hamburg will be presenting three papers at #NAACL2025 in Albuquerque! Our team's research spans ethical concerns in NLP, multilingual hate speech detection, and stereotype assessment in LLMs.
March 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
📣 Thrilled to announce that the Data Science Lab Hamburg will be presenting three papers at #NAACL2025 in Albuquerque! Our team's research spans ethical concerns in NLP, multilingual hate speech detection, and stereotype assessment in LLMs.
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📖For this week's @milanlp.bsky.social reading group, Yujie Ren presented "Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation via Next-Scale Prediction" by Keyu Tian et al.
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2404.02905
#NLProc
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2404.02905
#NLProc
February 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
📖For this week's @milanlp.bsky.social reading group, Yujie Ren presented "Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation via Next-Scale Prediction" by Keyu Tian et al.
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2404.02905
#NLProc
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2404.02905
#NLProc
This week, our PhD student @pranav-nlp.bsky.social presented the paper 'How Good is your Wikipedia?' by the authors from @lagom-nlp.bsky.social and many others, at @milanlp.bsky.social reading group.
March 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This week, our PhD student @pranav-nlp.bsky.social presented the paper 'How Good is your Wikipedia?' by the authors from @lagom-nlp.bsky.social and many others, at @milanlp.bsky.social reading group.
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Our workshop has been extended till Feb 20. We are looking forward for your papers at NAACL's Queer in AI workshop.
1/7 🌈 BIG NEWS ALERT! The hottest Queer in AI workshop is back - and this time we're official! We're thrilled to announce we'll be at #NAACL2025 as an official workshop, meaning your work can now be published in the ACL anthology! 🎉
February 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Our workshop has been extended till Feb 20. We are looking forward for your papers at NAACL's Queer in AI workshop.
Hello Bluesky! We're the Data Science Group from @uni-hamburg.de, led by Prof. Anne Lauscher.
Our mission: developing ethical, multicultural AI systems that communicate fairly and effectively. Join us as we explore the intersection of AI, ethics, and human-centered technology!
#NLProc #AIethics
Our mission: developing ethical, multicultural AI systems that communicate fairly and effectively. Join us as we explore the intersection of AI, ethics, and human-centered technology!
#NLProc #AIethics
February 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Hello Bluesky! We're the Data Science Group from @uni-hamburg.de, led by Prof. Anne Lauscher.
Our mission: developing ethical, multicultural AI systems that communicate fairly and effectively. Join us as we explore the intersection of AI, ethics, and human-centered technology!
#NLProc #AIethics
Our mission: developing ethical, multicultural AI systems that communicate fairly and effectively. Join us as we explore the intersection of AI, ethics, and human-centered technology!
#NLProc #AIethics