NLP lab courses in WS 2025/2026

The preliminary meeting for the our NLP lab course takes place on the 15th of July 2025 at 11:00 in room 00.08.053 with a livestream on Zoom. For further information see the module description in TUMonline. The slides of the preliminary meetings will be uploaded in the Wiki.

Note: To get a spot in the course, filling out our Wiki form is mandatory! The spots will then be assigned through the matching system.

Research Focus: Social Computing and Natural Language Processing

In our group we focus on modeling, instantiating and using social context for applications. Here, social context refers to all aspects of short-, medium-, or long-term human social interaction that are or may be related to, mediated by, or significant for IT systems. Respective scientific fields include models and applications of social signal processing, social network analysis, or social media analysis. Our current main field is natural language processing.

Examples for past and current projects include explanations and human-in-the-loop approaches for nlp models, ethical ai, opinion mining, social context in hate speech detection, social motivation and social recommendation for mobile lifestyle applications, characterizing social situations with interaction geometry and co-activity detection, models of topical influence in social networks, audio-based social situation assessment and availability management, social and geo-social information retrieval, privacy in social networking, collaborative music composition, geo-social networking and mobility prediction, or social networking techniques for open innovation management.

Ultimately working towards increasing user's utility via suitable applications, we mainly focus on design science methodologies supported by empirical / machine learning techniques using large, mostly text-based data-sets.