Developing multilingual LLMs from scratch to detect and counter online hate speech

- Grant writing- Designing novel LLM applications- Mentoring a student working on detecting claim exaggeration in scientific writing using LLMs (University of Ljubljana)

Research fellow at the ARC Training Centre in Cognitive Computing for Medical Technologies of the University of Melbourne and IBM, working in NLP for health together with Karin Verspoor and Tim Baldwin.R&D in:- Automated evidence synthesis using PLMs and LLMs- Semantic search and visualisation: https://covid-see.com/ - Question answering- Information extraction using LSTMsOther key activities:- Mentored two MSc students on NLP in health- Organised a hackathon on user experience, interoperability, tool evaluation, workflow integration, and COVID-19 responsiveness- Invited talks at UMass Amherst, University of Antwerp, University of Ljubljana, and MBZUAI

Project ACCUMULATE (Acquiring Crucial Medical Information Using Language Technology). Main supervisor: Walter Daelemans.Key R&D areas:- machine reading for medicine (NAACL'18)- solving probability word problems with BERT and executable representations (EMNLP'21)- neural concept extraction and relation classification- neural model augmentation with background knowledge- ethics in NLP for health- Co-mentored two PhD students on pretrained representations and interpretability for biomedical NLP.- Taught a master's course in Computational Linguistics.- Advised industrial start-ups in the biomedical domain.

Data development for supervised ML

Own PhD project proposal (competitive funding) accepted on Word representation learning:- ontologies- lexical semantics and syntax- latent variable contextual representations- crosslingual polysemous word embeddingsSupervised by Gertjan van Noord and Ivan Titov.

- University of Groningen, The Netherlands (Sep 2010--Sep 2011)- University of Nancy 2, France (Sep 2011--July 2012)

Dependency annotation of French speech transcripts. Supervised by Claire Gardent.

Student assistant for the BA course Corpustaalkunde, led by dr. Gosse Bouma.

corpora, lexicographyProjekt Sporazumevanje v slovenskem jeziku (www.slovenscina.eu)

Annotation of corpora in Slovene