Samia Touileb

Samia Touileb is an Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the University of Bergen's Department of Information Science and Media Studies. She co-leads the NLP work package at MediaFutures, a research center focused on responsible media technology. Her research emphasizes bias, fairness, and ethical implications of AI, particularly in language models and under-resourced languages.

Education: PhD in NLP from the University of Bergen (2017), postdoctoral research at the University of Oslo's Language Technology Group, and prior roles in MediaFutures.

Research Interests:
- Bias and fairness in NLP models
- Information extraction and summarization
- Applications of NLP in social sciences
- Scandinavian and under-resourced languages

Notable Projects:
- Co-developer of the NorBench benchmark for Norwegian language models
- Creator of the EDEN dataset for event detection in Norwegian news
- Lead in MediaFutures' NLP initiatives

Publications focus on event extraction, bias measurement, and ethical AI, with contributions to conferences like NoDaLiDa and ACL.