Barbara Plank

Barbara Plank is a Visiting Professor at the IT-University of Copenhagen, affiliated with the NLPnorth research group. She specializes in Natural Language Processing (NLP), focusing on multilingual language understanding, computational job market analysis, and annotation tools. Her work bridges machine learning techniques with practical applications in domains like skill extraction and cross-lingual systems.

• Affiliations: NLPnorth, IT University of Copenhagen
• Key Research Areas: Multitask learning, domain adaptation, entity linking

Education: Not explicitly listed in text.

Research Interests: Barbara’s research emphasizes advancing NLP through robust models for under-resourced languages and real-world applications. She explores techniques like nearest neighbor methods for occupational analysis, domain-aware relation classification, and easy-to-use annotation tools (e.g., EEVEE) to democratize NLP tasks. Her work often addresses challenges in multilingual systems and ethical AI deployment.

Grants & Projects:

• MultiSkill: Multilingual information extraction for job market analysis (2020–2024)
• MultiVaLUe: Multilingual variety-aware language understanding (2020–2024)
• Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence: Focus on pre-registered replication and ethical AI (2021–2034)

Awards:

• Amazon Research Award (2019)
• Outstanding paper awards at EACL 2021 and ML Evaluation Standards Workshop 2022

Labs/Teams: Active in the NLPnorth group, collaborating on projects like the 18th Linguistic Annotation Workshop and SemEval tasks.