Student Chatbot Marcel (EMNLP’25)
At this year’s EMNLP in Suzhou, China, Jan Trienes presented Marcel—a RAG-based conversational agent built to handle enrollment questions at Marburg Universi...
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Annotation-Free Breast Cancer Prediction (CBM)
Most AI models for breast cancer detection assume that each mammogram image, or even each region within an image, has been manually labeled. However, in real...
Probing Information Salience (ACL’25)
Jan Trienes presented research at ACL 2025 in Vienna on how large language models (LLMs) identify important information in text. Using text summarization as...
Unlearning Spurious Correlations (TMLR)
“This is a cow, because the background is a meadow.” Machine learning models often rely on spurious correlations — features that are strongly associated wit...
Knowledge Editing in Large Language Models (ICML, NAACL’25)
In our ever-changing world, the knowledge stored in large language models (LLMs) must be continuously updated as facts evolve. The president of the U.S. ...
LLMs for Counterfactuals (EMNLP’24)
What minimal changes to this text would cause the text classifier to change its prediction? Counterfactual texts, i.e. minimal changes to inputs that al...
InfoLossQA: Information Loss in Text Simplification (ACL’24)
How can we recover what has been lost in text simplification? Text simplification aims to make texts more accessible to a broader audience. Simplification, ...
‘The Queen of England is not England’s Queen.’ (EACL’24)
When humans know “Rome is the capital of Italy”, they also know “The capital of Italy is Rome”. This means, if humans know a fact, they can be either querie...
Fact Retrieval from LLMs (EMNLP’23)
How do we know what Language Models know? And what are obstacles in using them as knowledge bases? In our recent paper presented at EMNLP, we survey methods...
PIP-Net - Interpretable Computer Vision (CVPR’23)
Interpretable methods using prototypical patches help AI explain its reasoning to humans. However, current prototype-based methods may not align with human ...
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Start of the DFG project HEAR
What is the potential hearing gain after cochlear implantation? Cochlear implants have been successfully implanted in patients with deafness or severe hea...
Start of the Marflex Project Marcel, a Chatbot for Students
The MarFlex initiative aims to make study programs more flexible. Under this umbrella, we will develop Marcel (Marburger Study Accelerator), a chatbot to as...
Start of the Pioneers in Healthcare project ReBreCa
Pioneers in Healthcare is an innovation fund awarded by University of Twente, Saxion, MST, ZGT and Deventer Hospital. It awards projects with impact on heal...
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Student Initiative Receives Hessian Teaching Award
The AI-Lab: AI & Society project has been awarded the Hessian University Teaching Prize! This recognition reflects the passion, creativity, and hard work...
PhD Award Meike Nauta
Meike Nauta has been awarded the Overijssel PhD Award for her outstanding dissertation, “Explainable AI and Interpretable Computer Vision – From Oversight to...
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Bridging the Gap Between AI Research and Real-World Healthcare
On September 6, 2025, Shreyasi Pathak successfully defended her thesis at the University of Twente, marking a significant step forward in the practical appli...