Automatic question answering (QA) facilitates extraction and identification of relevant knowledge in large data sources that would otherwise be hard to find for humans. In this project we aim to provide researchers with an extensible QA platform to explore, compare and combine state-of-the-art QA approaches.

Five papers from UKP co-authors have been accepted for publication at ACL-IJCNLP 2021 , the Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing.

An opening for an Associate Research Scientist position in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing!

Two long papers from UKP co-authors have been accepted for publication at NAACL 2021 , the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Iryna Gurevych is the first recipient of the “Spitzen-Professur” by LOEWE in Hesse, Germany. This novel program aims to keep researchers with a high international reputation at Hessian universities. Mehr erfahren

We are excited to announce the 1st ELLIS NLP Workshop online on February 24-25th, 2021. This workshop has the title “Open Challenges and Future Directions of NLP”.

Two papers from UKP co-authors have been accepted for publication at EACL 2021 , the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Professor Iryna Gurevych has been selected as a new ACL Fellow 2020 of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) for her outstanding work in natural language processing and machine learning.

Four workshops from UKP and AIPHES-affiliated co-authors have been accepted by the ACL/NAACL/EACL/EMNLP 2021 Program Committee to appear within the NLP conferences ACL 2021 and EMNLP 2021.