Lilja Øvrelid is a Professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, leading the Language Technology Research Group. Her research focuses on syntactic and semantic text processing using machine learning techniques such as dependency parsing, negation analysis, and sentiment analysis. She teaches courses including IN1140: Introduction to Language Technology , IN5550: Neural Methods in NLP , and INF5830: Natural Language Processing . Her academic interests span natural language processing, machine learning, and computational linguistics, with a particular emphasis on Norwegian language technology. Recent publications highlight work in sentiment analysis (including patient feedback), event extraction from Norwegian news, benchmarking language models, emotion analysis for under-resourced languages (Pashto, Farsi-Dari), and bias detection in multilingual models. She actively contributes to the development of Norwegian language resources such as NorBench, NorQuAD, and NoReC. Current projects include BigMed and SIRIUS , focusing on biomedical text mining and AI infrastructure. Collaborations with colleagues like Erik Velldal, David Samuel, and Vladislav Mikhailov are frequent in her work. Despite no explicit mention of scientific awards, her contributions to NLP and computational linguistics are substantial through publications, datasets, and tool development.







