2025-08-22Our paper on evaluating LLM-generated counterfactuals led by Qianli has been accepted at INLG 2025 in 🇻🇳 Hanoi!
2025-08-20Our multilingual conversational XAI datasets paper led by Qianli has been accepted for Findings of EMNLP 2025! See you in 🇨🇳 Suzhou!
2025-08-12I’m co-organizing the inaugural YNLG Workshop for Young Researchers in Natural Language Generation! Hope to see you in 🇻🇳 Hanoi!
2025-07-31Our TableEval paper has won the Best Runner-up Paper Award at the Table Representation Learning Workshop! 🥳
2025-07-17Demo paper and first publication from my IlluminateCardio project on translating free-form clinical notes to structured FHIR resources available on arXiv. This is a collaboration with Uni Augsburg and Charité.
2025-06-19Paper on feature description methods and polysemanticity out on arXiv.
2025-06-19FEVER Shared Task submission accepted for ACL 2025.
2025-05-28The study on readability of free-text rationales by Yi-Sheng was accepted at the GEM^2 Workshop at ACL 2025. 🧐
2025-05-28Our table understanding study led by Ekaterina has been accepted at the Table Representation Learning Workshop of ACL 2025. 📊
2025-05-16FitCF has been accepted to ACL 2025 Findings! See you in Vienna! 🎡
2025-05-06Paper with TU Munich on gender bias in explainability accepted at FAccT 2025. 🦉
2025-04-11Successfully defended my PhD thesis at TU Berlin! 🎓 Thanks to my mentor Sebastian Möller and professors Sina Zarrieß (Uni Bielefeld), Christin Seifert (Uni Marburg) and Matthias Boehm for being part of the committee and awarding the graduation certificate with a “magna cum laude”.
2025-03-18First time serving as an editor: Together with Britta Schulte, I published the proceedings of the ISCA-ITG Workshop on Diversity in Large Speech and Language Models.
2025-02-07I gave an invited talk at the University of Groningen about human-centric explainable NLP. 🇳🇱
2024-12-29I published my 2024 Recap showcasing my favorite papers from this year’s major conferences.
2024-11-30I am joining TU Berlin and BIFOLD in January 2025. My project IlluminateCardio will focus on the interpretability of large language models, human-AI alignment, and applications to cardiovascular medicine in collaboration with Prof. Alexander Meyer (Charité). 🏛️🏥
2024-11-30Cross-Refine accepted for COLING 2025.
2024-09-30CoXQL: A Dataset for Parsing Explanation Requests in Conversational XAI Systems has been accepted to EMNLP 2024 Findings and will be presented by Qianli in Miami, FL, USA. 🗽 His new work Cross-Refine is out on arXiv and currently in submission.
2024-09-08Traveling to Japan next week! 🗾 I will first give a talk at Eiji Aramaki’s Social Computing Lab at NAIST (Nara), attend the YRRSDS and SIGDIAL 2024 in Kyoto, and then head to Tokyo for INLG 2024.
2024-07-21Paper on sycophancy and political bias evaluation of (German) LLMs accepted to INLG 2024. I will visit Tokyo and present the poster on behalf of Max who I supervised. 🗼
2024-07-12First-author paper on instructional explanations in teacher-student dialogues accepted to ACM GoodIT. 🗝
2024-07-02Two new co-authored papers: On free-text rationale generation and readability (posted on arXiv) and on feature attribution for multimodal medical decision support (accepted to BioNLP @ ACL 2024).
2024-06-02QoEXplainer accepted to QoMEX and ACM IMX 2024.
2024-04-19LLMCheckup accepted to NAACL 2024 HCI+NLP! System demo paper on dialogue-based explainability for video streaming quality of experience in submission.
2024-03-31New paper on disinformation detection and the role of explainability accepted to FAccT 2024!
2024-03-23Excited to give a talk about Explanation Dialogues at the inaugural BIFOLD Tutorial Day on April 30.
2024-02-28Two 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).
2023-11-13InterroLang will be presented as an in-person poster at BlackboxNLP (Thu, Dec 7, 11:00 AM) and Findings (Sat, Dec 9, 09:00 AM).
2023-11-03Invited talk at Human-Centric AI group of NEC Labs Europe, Heidelberg
2023-10-08InterroLang: 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.
2023-05-30Saliency Map Verbalization (first-author paper) accepted to ACL 2023! See you in Toronto! 🍁
2023-05-19Inseq accepted to ACL 2023!
2023-02-27Inseq pre-print published on arXiv.
2022-12-26Three papers accepted to ESSV and HUCAPP. New interpretability library Inseq (project led by Gabriele Sarti) now available on GitHub.
2022-11-21Journal paper about “Interactive Explainable AI” accepted to KI.
2022-10-14First-author paper on “Saliency Map Verbalization” is now on arXiv.
2022-07-04Companion paper to “Personalized Conversational Agents” accepted to SIGDIAL 2022.
2022-06-15Paper on “Personalized Conversational Agents” accepted to INTERSPEECH 2022.
2022-06-04First-author paper “Mediators: Conversational Agents Explaining Language Model Behavior” accepted to the IJCAI-ECAI 2022 Workshop on XAI.
2022-04-04Paper on “Textual Explanations for Clinical Decision Support” accepted to LREC as a poster.
2022-03-22Project report on “XAI and meaningful information in automated decision-making” now available in full.