Language Models 2024.12.02 Ministry of Digital Affairs grants a total of 30.7 Million to ambitious Danish language model project The University of Copenhagen, together with the University of Southern Denmark, Aarhus University,…
Faculty Member 2024.09.02 New Faculty Member in DIKU’s NLP Section Rising star in Natural Language Processing, Pepa Atanasova, is promoted to Tenure-Track Assistant…
RECOGNITION 2024.06.07 Denmark's youngest female Professor is new member of royal academy Professor Isabelle Augenstein has been elected as a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences…
artificial intelligence 2023.07.10 ChatGPT promotes American norms and values ChatGPT, the revolutionary new AI chatbot, reflects American norms and values – even when queried…
Computer science 2023.01.30 Nuggets mined from thousands of tweets can persuade us to eat more climate-friendly Experience and opinion trump fact in Twitter conversations about sustainable food. In a new study,…
2022 Elections 2022.10.28 Female politicians disadvantaged by online prejudices and stereotypes In Reddit comments, female politicians are more likely to be referred to by their first names, and…
Computer science 2022.10.17 Denmark's youngest female professor appointed at the University of Copenhagen Her research investigates how to combat fake news through automated online fact-checking and the…
Misinformation 2022.10.05 Healthy democracies are threatened by false information, but not everyone is keen on a cure Our democracy relies upon the choices of an informed electorate. But today, it is threatened by mis…
Machine Learning 2022.08.31 English bias in computing: Images to the rescue Training sets for Machine Learning are normally created in English. This introduces cultural bias. …
artificial intelligence 2021.11.18 Artificial intelligence favours white men under 40 Publicly available language models of the sort used for everything from Google and Siri, to…
TECHNOLOGY & BIAS 2021.11.03 Our computers are sexist towards male and female politicians Female politicians are often described as 'beautiful' or 'hysterical' in language models, while…
NLP 2021.01.08 The University of Copenhagen establishes a dedicated NLP research section The University of Copenhagen’s Department of Computer Science has become one of the top places for…
Growth 2020.12.01 A record number of PhD students has been enrolled at the Department of Computer Science in 2020 Large demand from the industry and increased attention from foundations have boosted the growth of…
Associate professorship 2020.03.25 Newly appointed Associate Professor will use machine learning to explain gender bias towards politicians On 1 February 2020, Isabelle Augenstein started her new position as an Associate Professor in DIKU’…
Artificial Intelligence 2019.12.12 Copenhagen is at the forefront of Machine Learning Copenhagen will contribute to catalyzing European AI research and business as one of the newly…
ELLIS PhD Award 2018 2019.10.15 Researcher receives prestigious award for combining NLP and eye tracking In her PhD thesis from 2018, Maria Barrett, postdoc at Department of Computer Science, University o…
DFF grants 2019.10.10 Economic boost for digital research at University of Copenhagen Researchers from Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen (DIKU) have received a…
NeurIPS and EMNLP 2019.10.04 Record-breaking number of DIKU-papers accepted at two top conferences Researchers from Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen (DIKU) have had five and…
machine learning 2019.08.27 Women are beautiful, men rational Men are typically described by words that refer to behavior, while adjectives ascribed to women ten…
Diversitet 2019.04.12 Women in data science get together in Copenhagen The conference Women in Data Science (WiDS) is the first of its kind in Denmark. The purpose of the…
Natural Language Processing 2019.01.17 First place for Copenhagen NLP in SIGMORPHON shared task Yova Kementchedjhieva, Johannes Bjerva and Isabelle Augenstein from the NLP Group at Department of…
DATA SCIENCE 2019.01.08 Artificial Intelligence helps dyslexics read Free software from the University of Copenhagen simplifies difficult texts for people with dyslexia…