Daniel Hershcovich

Daniel Hershcovich is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the Natural Language Processing section of the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on cross-cultural adaptation of language models, integrating human values into AI systems, and evaluating AI's real-world impact in domains like law, literature, and food culture.

• Research Themes
  • Cultural value alignment in LLMs
  • Multimodal models for accessibility
  • Cross-cultural recipe and food knowledge
  • Historical Scandinavian text analysis
  • Ethical AI and bias mitigation
• Scientific Recognition
  • SAC Highlight Award (ACL 2025)
  • Outstanding Paper Award (ACL 2017)

Advising & Grants: Mentions collaborations on multiple EMNLP/ACL/CoNLL papers. Leads Independent Research Fund Denmark project ALIKE (2025-2027) and contributes to Innovation Fund Denmark's XHAILe (2025-2028). Co-organized SemEval 2019 and CoNLL 2019/2020 shared tasks.

Labs & Teams: Leads the CoAStaL research group. Collaborates with teams at IBM Research Haifa, University of Manchester, and Wuhan University of Science and Technology.