I am a full 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 am also a co-lead of the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence . 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 , Heidelber
I currently hold a prestigious ERC Starting Grant on ' Explainable and Robust Automatic Fact Checking ', as well as the Danish equivalent of that, a DFF Sapere Aude Research Leader fellowship on ' Learning to Explain Attitudes on Social Media '. I am a member of the Danish Young Academy , a unit under the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters . I am also the Vice President of SIGDAT which organises the EMNLP conference series, a co-founder of Widening NLP ( WiNLP ), and maintain the BIG Directory of
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