Isabelle Augenstein

I am an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Computer Science, where I head the Copenhagen Natural Language Understanding research group as well as the Natural Language Processing section. I also co-head the research team at CheckStep Ltd, a content moderation start-up. My main research interests are fact checking, low-resource learning and explainability.

Before starting a faculty position, I was a postdoctoral research associate in Sebastian Riedel's UCL Machine Reading group, mainly investigating machine reading from scientific articles. Prior to that, I was a Research Associate in the Sheffield NLP group, a PhD Student in the University of Sheffield Computer Science department, a Research Assistant at AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and a Computational Linguistics undergraduate student at the Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University.

I currently hold a prestigious DFF Sapere Aude Research Leader fellowship on 'Learning to Explain Attitudes on Social Media'. I am president of the ACL Special Interest Group on Representation Learning (SIGREP), co-founder of Widening NLP (WiNLP), and maintain the BIG Directory of members of underrepresented groups and supporters in Natural Language Processing.

For more details, see my publications and CV. More information on how to join us in Copenhagen can be found here.

News

• September 2021: My DFF Sapere Aude Research Leader project on 'Learning to Explain Attitudes on Social Media' is finally kicking off -- four new members have joined CopeNLU today.
• August 2021: 3 papers on stance detection, exaggeration detection and on counterfactually augmented data accepted to EMNLP 2021!
• May 2021: 2 papers on interpretability and scientific document understanding accepted to ACL 2021!
• April 2021: Paper on multi-hop fact checking of political claims accepted to IJCAI 2021!
• April 2021: We're calling for submissions to a special issue of the Cambridge University Press Journal of Natural Language Engineering (NLE) on NLP Approaches to Offensive Content Online. Submissions are due on 31 August 2021.
• April 2021: I'm still looking to hire a PhD student on explainable AI. Feel free to reach out informally before applying if you have any questions about the position.
• April 2021: I wrote a new blog post, where I examine the relationship between notability, research impact, gender & institutional affiliations of NLP researchers.
• February 2021: We're calling for papers and talk proposals for the 2021 Conference on Trust & Truth Online. Submissions are due on 30 July (papers) and 13 August (talk proposals).
• January 2021: Slides and lab exercises for our ALPS tutorial on Explainability for NLP are now available on Github.
• January 2021: Paper on typological blinding of cross-lingual models accepted to EACL 2021!
• January 2021: I have been appointed as head of a newly created Natural Language Processing section at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen.