Barbara Plank

Barbara Plank is a Professor and Chair for AI and Computational Linguistics at LMU Munich, where she leads the Munich AI and NLP (MaiNLP) Lab within the Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS). She also serves as a Visiting Full Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on natural language processing under real-world constraints, including domain adaptation, continual learning, and multimodal learning.

• Current Projects:
  • ERC Consolidator DIALECT Project
  • KLIMA-MEMES Project

Her recent work investigates annotation bias, self-consistency in language models, and trustworthy model evaluation. She has delivered keynotes at major conferences like ACL, EMNLP, and CLEF, emphasizing human-centric approaches to NLP.

• Scientific Awards:
  • ACL 2024 Area Chair Award

Barbara actively contributes to the academic community as VP-Elect for the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and through teaching roles in MSc/BSc Computational Linguistics programs.