Collaborations
We have (research) collaborations with different institutions/universities.
We have numerous ongoing projects with the colleagues Prof. Dr. Paul Thurner and Dr. Oliver Pamp from the GSI.
Selection of joint publications:
- Chatterjee A, Schöffel M, Aßenmacher M, Wiedner M, Garces Arias E (2026) Lost in Translation? Exploring the Shift in Grammatical Gender from Latin to Occitan Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities, pp. 276–296. Association for Computational Linguistics, San Diego, USA.
- Schöffel M, Garces Arias E, Wiedner M, Ruppert P, Li M, Heumann C, Aßenmacher M (2025) Unveiling Factors for Enhanced POS Tagging: A Study of Low-Resource Medieval Romance Languages arXiv preprint 2506.17715
- Schöffel M, Wiedner M, Garces Arias E, Ruppert P, Heumann C, Aßenmacher M (2025) Modern Models, Medieval Texts: A POS Tagging Study of Old Occitan Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities, pp. 334–349. Association for Computational Linguistics, Albuquerque, USA.
- Garces Arias E, Pai V, Schöffel M, Heumann C, Aßenmacher M (2023) Automatic Transcription of Handwritten Old Occitan Language Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp. 15416–15439. Association for Computational Linguistics, Singapore.
We have two external Ph.D. students (see "Team") employed at ZITis who are jointly supervised with Prof. Dr. Göran Kauermann.
Selection of joint publications:
- Braun L, Aßenmacher M, Hohenadler M, Kauermann G (2026) Two Lawyers, Three Opinions: Can Output-Based LLM Uncertainty Find the Cases Where Experts Disagree? Accepted at the Third Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP (EMNLP 2026)
- Gnadt K, Meidinger M, Aßenmacher M (2026) MUCnoHARM@GermEval Shared Task 2026: Retrieval-based In-Context Learning for Defamatory Offences, and Where It Falls Short Accepted at the GermEval Workshop on Harmful Content Detection
We have an active collaboration with Prof. Dr. Chongsheng Zhang (Henan University) and his students, with whom we work on ancient languages and decoding strategies for LLMs.
Selection of joint publications:
- Ding Y, Li M, Garces Arias E, Aßenmacher M, Heumann C, Zhang C (2026) Breaking the Likelihood Trap: Variance-Calibrated Modulation for Large Language Model Decoding Accepted at EMNLP 2026 Main Track
- Zhang C, Wu S, Chen Y, Men Y, Fan G, Jiang Y, Aßenmacher M, Heumann C (2026) Explainable Coarse-to-Fine Text-Centric Oracle Bone Duplicates Discovery Accepted to EMNLP 2026 System Demonstrations
- Ding Y, Li M, Garces Arias E, Aßenmacher M, Heumann C, Zhang C (2026) Min-k Sampling: Decoupling Truncation from Temperature Scaling via Relative Logit Dynamics Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pp. 14932–14948. Association for Computational Linguistics, San Diego, California, United States.
- Ding Y, Garces Arias E, Li M, Rodemann J, Aßenmacher M, Chen D, Fan G, Heumann C, Zhang C (2025) GUARD: Glocal Uncertainty-Aware Robust Decoding for Effective and Efficient Open-Ended Text Generation Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, pp. 7202–7226. Association for Computational Linguistics, Suzhou, China.
We collaborate with Prof. Dr. Benjamin Roth and his team on the development of open-source educational resources for our DL4NLP lectures (also as a joint effort with Prof. Dr. Hinrich Schütze and Prof. Dr. Valentin Hofmann, CIS, LMU Munich).
Selection of joint publications:
- Aßenmacher M, Stephan A, Weissweiler L, Çano E, Ziegler I, Härttrich M, Bischl B, Roth B, Heumann C, Schütze H (2024) Collaborative Development of Modular Open Source Educational Resources for Natural Language Processing Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Teaching NLP, pp. 43–53. Association for Computational Linguistics, Bangkok, Thailand.
We have numerous ongoing projects with the colleagues Prof. Dr. Paul Thurner and Dr. Oliver Pamp from the GSI.
Selection of joint publications:
- Mironov M, Marquard A, Racek D, Heumann C, Thurner PW, Aßenmacher M (2025) A Geoparsing Pipeline for Multilingual Social Media Posts from Ukraine, Proceedings of the GeoExT 2025: Geographic Information Extraction from Texts Workshop, pp. 6–17. Lucca, Italy.
- Schulze P, Wiegrebe S, Thurner PW, Heumann C, Aßenmacher M (2023) A Bayesian approach to modeling topic-metadata relationships. AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis 108, 333–349.