We are delighted to announce that on July 4th, 2025, our colleague Tilman Beck successfully defended his PhD thesis »Context Matters – Analysis and Integration of Contextual Factors for Stance Classification Models«! Congratulations to Tilman and best wishes for his future career!

We are delighted to announce that on May 20, 2025, our colleague Kexin Wang successfully defended his PhD thesis »Improving Dense Retrieval on Domain Adaptation and Decontextualization«! Congratulations to Kexin and best wishes for his future career!

Iryna Gurevych, computer science professor at TU Darmstadt, has been elected as a member of the Academia Europaea. With this distinction, the pan-European academy honors her outstanding contributions to Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (NLP). The Academia Europaea brings together leading scientists and scholars from across Europe to promote research, education, and interdisciplinary exchange. Gurevych heads the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab at the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt.

We are happy to announce that 10 papers authored or co-authored by UKP members have been accepted by the 63nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in Vienna. Congratulations to everyone involved!

We are happy to announce that 8 papers authored or co-authored by UKP members have been accepted by The 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Congratulations to everyone involved!