Hello! We're the NLP and Society lab, part of the Natural Language Processing group at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University (NL). We're interested in:

People


Anna Wegmann
PhD student

Dong Nguyen
Assistant Professor

Elize Herrewijnen
PhD student
(co-advised with Floris Bex and Jelte Mense)

Melody Sepahpour-Fard
PhD student
Based at the University of Limerick
(co-advised with Michael Quayle)

Qixiang Fang
PhD student
Based at Methodology and Statistics
(co-advised with Daniel Oberski)

Yupei Du
PhD student

Selected recent research

Measuring the instability of fine-tuning (ACL 2023), using the construct validity framework to evaluate the quality of text embeddings (EPJ Data Science 2022), learning style representations (Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP, 2022), algorithmic fairness (AIES 2023).

Pre-print: FTFT: efficient and robust Fine-Tuning by transFerring Training dynamics (comments welcome!)

Software

See our GitHub repository!

Funded projects

NWO Veni (2020-2024), NWO digital society 'Digitale samenleving - de geïnformeerde burger' (2020-2024), UU Research IT innovation fund 'PROVEE: Progressive Explainable Embeddings'