Ilias Chalkidis
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Ilias Chalkidis
@kiddothe2b.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen - NLP for law 🧑‍⚖️, politics 🗳️ , and AI Alignment 💭🔁 - https://iliaschalkidis.github.io
All developed resources are publicly available on HuggingFace under a single collection: huggingface.co/collections/.... Our code is available at: github.com/coastalcph/p... [The End] 5/5
Identifying Populist Rhetoric 🗳️ 🗣️ - a coastalcph Collection
Collection of resources released with the article "Identifying Fine-grained Forms of Populism in Political Campaign Speeches" (Chalkidis et al., 2025)
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July 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Lastly, we conduct a small-scale OOD exploratory evaluation using European political speeches. RoBERTa’s performance severely drops due to overfitting, while Qwen 3 and Gemini 2.5 achieve comparable results and outperform RoBERTa by ~10%, showcasing robustness across domains. 4/5
July 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Our analysis of a large collection of Trump’s campaign speeches (2015 -2025) reveals: (a) a decline in populist rhetoric over time, (b) no meaningful difference in populist intensity between swing/non-swing states, and (c) populism is concentrated towards the end of a speech. 3/5
July 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
We examine whether LLMs can identify and classify fine-grained forms of populism, a complex and contested concept in both academic and media debates. To this end, we curate and release datasets and evaluate a range of large language models across multiple prompting paradigms. 2/5
July 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
My research will center on three key areas: (a) NLP for Political Science, (b) AI & Society, beginning with critical challenges in AI alignment, and (c) NLP for Law.

Reach out if you're interested in any of the above 👆
I'm glad to share more and listen to your ideas 😇 2/2
July 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
In short, the Llama 4 System Prompt is 101 the mantra of Trump vol. 2; heavily concentrated around "anti-wokeness" and "freedom of speech" at all costs. 2/2
April 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM