Elisa Bassignana

Elisa Bassignana is a postdoctoral researcher in the Data Science department at the IT University of Copenhagen, specializing in Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science. Her work focuses on relation extraction, cross-domain adaptability, and language model biases.

• Active in AI ethics, cultural awareness in NLP, and domain-specific encoding
• Lead Principal Investigator for PeachAI (Villum Foundation, 2024–2027)
• Co-investigator in MultiVaLUe (Danish Free Research Fund, 2020–2024)

Her research addresses gender and origin biases in NLP systems and the development of open-source tools like SnakModel, a Danish large language model. Awards include the Outstanding Paper Award at ML Evaluation Standards Workshop (2022) and a Villum postdoctoral grant (2023).