Ivan Habernal
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Ivan Habernal
@ivanhabernal.bsky.social
Full professor at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de + @rctrust.bsky.social | Leading the TrustHLT group | Ex @tuda.bsky.social, @unipaderborn.bsky.social | Playing the bass | He/him
This was one of the coolest gigs ever! Usually we play a couple of fill-ins and then get bored during the speeches... But this time James Green, a NASA chief scientist, talking an hour about his team landing on Mars and searching for life there? What can be more fascinating than that!? 🤩
October 31, 2025 at 10:27 AM
That's where we'll meet for the 7th edition of the Privacy-Preserving NLP workshop - so save the date :) Until then, have fun doing cool research!
October 2, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Here's another one... thanks for cleaning up my idea TODO-list ;)
September 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Sorting out some old research ideas, happily seeing someone else else actually did care :)
September 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
An excellent (and provoking) position paper from Philip Resnik in the latest issue of Computational Linguistics!
doi.org/10.1162/coli...
September 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
utm_source=chatgpt.com ?? what's wrong with you, Google Scholar?!
September 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I think all the late reviewers made OpenReview so sad, so it decided to better crash completely 😢
September 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Dear EMNLP'25 demo reviewers - if you make a commitment to review (your community is very thankful for that!!!) then also please deliver :)

Looks like we're looking for emergency reviewers, and we need many :/
August 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
wow... didn't know Swiss people are such Pokémon buffs 😍
August 14, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Me right now, trying to fix some OpenReview configuration just hours before the deadline for EMNLP demo papers
July 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Hosted at RUB, with people attending from Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Regensburg, Magdeburg, and Prague, I think our AI & Law Seminars is growing pretty well! Thanks @d4br4.bsky.social for coming over and giving a super inspiring talk on "disagreement (?)" in legal NLP
May 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Looking forward to our next AI & Law Seminar later today with Daniel Braun. Interested in joining vitually? Here's the zoom link: ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/6645491155...
Meeting ID: 664 5491 1552
Passcode: 462718
May 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
This was a wonderful workshop! I've realized that we are *the* NLP community investigating privacy and language from many different angles. Check out the recordings on Underline and the workshop proceedings aclanthology.org/volumes/2025... ... now turning off the lights :) and see you next year!!
May 5, 2025 at 7:31 AM
We kicked off a new series of research seminars "AI & Law"! With our first guest Sabine Wehnert on how to win a COLIEE competition, RAGs and graphs in German legal NLP, and much more. Next edition (hybrid again) on May 7, stay tuned
April 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
"Scale is all you need" 🥲 (Llama 4 Behemoth training)
April 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Amazon recommendation system on steroids today :)
April 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.
Give a man an input textfield, and things will quickly get out of control" -- me, grading university exams 🤦‍♂️😂
March 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Yeah, the next exam is coming... :)
(views of lecture videos on YouTube)
March 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
If you wonder why I pretend to play a guitar here ... wel... all my lifetime experience with group photoshooting was with rock bands, not research groups ;)
But our first TrustHLT group offsite rocked!
March 3, 2025 at 8:35 AM
😮 My WOW-TIL moment: "Human learning has an inductive bias that causes people infer straight lines from data, and when combined with error prone learning, this bias gradually causes people to see straight lines where none existed." doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0349
February 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Interested in legal text summarization but have no time to read 120+ recent papers? Look no more!

We provide a systematic survey on legal summarization covering the "transformer" era with methods, datasets, evaluation, etc.

From @rctrust.bsky.social for you by Mousumi, Erion, Erik, Dennis and me
February 6, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Thanks to the Social Data Science Center @univofmaryland.bsky.social and the American Statistical Assoc. for inviting me to the Privacy Week symposium! With 100+ statisticians in the audience, I was sweating every time my figures showed error bars 😅

Slides:
drive.google.com/file/d/14pnq...
January 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM