How to defend your PhD
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This relates to PhD defenses in computer science / computational linguistics in Germany! The customs of your department/country/scientific discipline may differ.
Blog posts
2025
Conference Report ACL 2025 - How can we move forward as a field?
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DISCLAIMER: If you disagree with me, or if I represented your opinions wrongly in this article, please contact me directly via e-mail! I am happy to adapt this article if needed.
2024
Natural Language Processing Datasets in the Materials Science Domain
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WORK IN PROGRESS
Bachelor/Master Thesis Opportunity: Detecting Reported Speech with Large Language Models
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Position filled!
Scientific Writing
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This blog post summarizes some important hints and tricks when writing a scientific paper or a thesis in the area of natural language processing (NLP) or computational linguistics (CL). Of course, they are only recommendations and the ideal solution depends on your concrete topic.
2023
AIhub Blog Post on Methods to Address Class Imbalance in Deep-Learning Based NLP
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Sophie Henning (PhD student at the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI)) and I got invited to write a blogpost for AIhub about our EACL 2023 paper on methods for addressing class imbalance in DL-based NLP. If you ever encountered the problem of your classifier only paying attention to the majority classes and wondered what to do about this, this article is for you. :)
2020
Some thoughts on Area Chairing / Meta-Reviewing
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Thanks to Alexis Palmer, Casey Kennington and Nathan Schneider for their comments on an earlier version of this.
Scientific Presentations
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My slides on how to give effective scientific presentations.