Yufang Hou
yufanghou.bsky.social
Yufang Hou
@yufanghou.bsky.social
Professor for Natural Language Processing at IT:U - Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria; research scientist at IBM Research. Views are my own.
Big thanks to our speakers Ido Dagan, @preslavnakov.bsky.social,@igurevych.bsky.social,Saif M. Mohammad, Yulan He, Yunyao Li, Steffen Eger, Anne Lauscher, Wei Zhao, Yong Cao, Niklas Schmidinger,
and special thanks to Sepp Hochreiter, Christopher Frauenberger, and Daniel Klotz for the great support!
May 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🎓 Student registration is only €49, including lunch on both days.
🌍 Financial support is available for students from low-resource backgrounds and outstanding female students.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn, connect, and grow with the NLP community!
May 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Organized by @ituaustria.bsky.social, this two-day event will offer a vibrant program including:
➡️ Invited talks by experienced NLP/ML researchers
➡️ Interactive panel discussions on key topics in NLP and AI
➡️ Technical tutorials designed to deepen your understanding of NLP concepts
May 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
A big congratulations to the outstanding students I had the pleasure of (co-)supervising from @ibm-research.bsky.social, @dublincityuni.bsky.social, @ukplab.bsky.social and to my invaluable collaborators!
May 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Super proud of this project! Big congratulations to the exceptional student I’ve had the pleasure of co-supervising from Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab and to my invaluable collaborators: Max Glockner, Preslav Nakov, and Iryna Gurevych.
January 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
MISSCI+ builds on MISSCI by grounding the fallacies of a misinformation claim in real-world passages from misrepresented studies. We show that fact-checking systems struggle to refute misinformation using real-world passages. And these passages can mislead LLMs into accepting false claims as true.
January 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
If you are attending #NeurIPS2024 and are interested in these areas, please reach out - I'd love to chat!
December 10, 2024 at 2:29 PM
I'm also looking for 3 PhDs and 2 Postdocs to join my team at IT:U-Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria. We’ll be working on various topics, including LLM governance, argument mining and fact-checking, NLP4Science, and knowledge&reasoning.
December 10, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Please stop by if you're interested in evaluating and improving the handling of hallucinations and factual accuracy in LLMs, particularly in real-world knowledge conflicts!

🔗 paper link: openreview.net/pdf?id=5t7Dt...
🔗 dataset link: huggingface.co/datasets/ibm...
December 10, 2024 at 2:29 PM
We value demonstrable experience with open-source projects, and the ability to collaborate effectively with researchers from diverse interdisciplinary backgrounds. Prior experience with relevant areas of NLP and ML, along with strong engineering skills, is highly desirable.
November 28, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Additionally, employees enjoy a free KlimaTicket, granting access to all modes of public transportation throughout Austria, as well as complimentary coffee and snacks in the workplace.
November 28, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Our compensation package is competitive, with a gross salary aligned with market standards: €3,578.80 per month for PhD-level candidates, and ranging from €4,752.30 to €5,211.80 for junior and senior PostDocs, based on a 40-hour full-time contract (paid 14 times annually).
November 28, 2024 at 12:23 AM
If you're passionate about exploring topics like LLM Governance, Computational Argumentation and Fact-checking, NLP4Science, and Knowledge&Reasoning, check out the IT:U NLP group's page for more details and apply now: it-u.at/en/research/...
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November 28, 2024 at 12:23 AM