Welcome! 👋 I am Nils Feldhus and am currently working on my PhD thesis in explainable natural language processing at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and the Technische Universität Berlin under the supervision of Sebastian Möller.
Research interests 👀
My main research interest is making (neural) language models more interpretable by building applications that democratize access to explanations. Topics of interest are rationale generation, data-centric interpretability, information-seeking dialogue, and evaluation measures for generated text.
News 🤩
2024-03-31 : New paper on disinformation detection and the role of explainability accepted to FAccT 2024!
2024-03-23 : Excited to give a talk about Explanation Dialogues and the Role of Didactics in Explainability at the inaugural BIFOLD Tutorial Day on April 30.
2024-02-28 : Two new papers in submission: A follow-up to InterroLang on the conversational examination of self-explaining LLMs (LLMCheckup) and a resource and evaluation paper on instructional explanations in teacher-student dialogues (ReWIRED).
2023-11-13 : InterroLang will be presented as an in-person poster at BlackboxNLP (Thu, Dec 7, 11:00 AM) and Findings (Sat, Dec 9, 09:00 AM).
2023-11-03 : Invited talk at Human-Centric AI group of NEC Labs Europe, Heidelberg
2023-10-08 : InterroLang: Exploring NLP Models and Datasets through Dialogue-based Explanations accepted to EMNLP 2023 Findings! 🦁 This is my fourth first-author paper and an implementation of the Mediators precursor paper.
2023-05-30 : Saliency Map Verbalization (first-author paper) accepted to ACL 2023! See you in Toronto! 🍁
2023-05-19 : Inseq accepted to ACL 2023! MultiTACRED which I reviewed for my colleagues has been accepted as well.
Education 👨🎓
2021-2025 – Computer Science, PhD, Technische Universität Berlin. Supervised by Sebastian Möller: “Approaches for Generating and Evaluating Natural Language Explanations of Language Models”
2016-2020 – Cognitive Systems: Language, Learning and Reasoning, MSc, University of Potsdam. Supervised by Manfred Stede: “Utilizing machine translation for bootstrapping abstractive text summarization”.
2013-2016 – Computational Linguistics, BA, Heidelberg University. Supervised by Katja Markert: “An in-depth investigation on timeline summarization evaluation”.
Jobs 👨💼
2021-ongoing – Researcher/Software Engineer @ German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Berlin, Speech and Language Technology group.
XAINES - Explaining AI with Narratives project, supervised by Sebastian Möller.
2020-2021 – Researcher/Software Engineer @ German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Berlin, Speech and Language Technology group.
European Language Grid project, supervised by Georg Rehm.
2014 – Student assistant at the Institute for Computational Linguistics @ Heidelberg University
Leisure activities and other interests 🎵
Hosting two web radio shows where I mix ambient (Neptunian @ FRISKY Radio, since 2014) and atmospheric electronic music (Idolatry @ Proton Radio, since 2015). I’ve been producing mixes for Mixcloud since 2011. All of these are available on helioscope.net.
Cycling and hiking
Nature photography