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We are the Language and Multimodal Processing Group at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen. Our recent work includes representation learning for multilingual and multimodal data, resource creation, and language modelling.

News

December 01, 2025
Mike Zhang has joined the group as a Postdoc.
November 11, 2025
One paper accepted to WACV on sequential image-text modelling. Congratulations Danae!
September 26, 2025
Jonas defended his Ph.D thesis with unanimous agreement by the assessment committee. Congratulations Jonas!
September 01, 2025
Nathalie Hau Sørensen has joined the group as a Ph.D student.
September 01, 2025
Maria Vlachou has joined the group as a Postdoc.

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Research Areas

Vision-Language Models

Design, understand, and evaluate vision-language models

Retrieval Augmentation

Retrieval augmented generation in multimodal and text-only settings.

Pixel Language Models

We are developing language models that can process any written language.

Recent Publications

2026	ImageChain: Advancing Sequential Image-to-Text Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models. Danae Sanchez Villegas, Ingo Ziegler, and Desmond Elliott. Proceedings of WACV.
2025	Multilingual Pretraining for Pixel Language Models. Ilker Kesen, Jonas F. Lotz, Ingo Ziegler, Phillip Rust, and Desmond Elliott. Proceedings of EMNLP.
2025	CRAFT Your Dataset: Task-Specific Synthetic Dataset Generation Through Corpus Retrieval and Augmentation. Ingo Ziegler, Abdullatif Köksal, Desmond Elliott, and Hinrich Schütze. Transactions of the ACL.
2025	LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks. Anna Bavaresco, Raffaella Bernardi, Leonardo Bertolazzi, Desmond Elliott, Raquel Fernández, Albert Gatt, Esam Ghaleb, Mario Giulianelli, Michael Hanna, Alexander Koller, Andre Martins, Philipp Mondorf, Vera Neplenbroek, Sandro Pezzelle, Barbara Plank, David Schlangen, Alessandro Suglia, Aditya K Surikuchi, Ece Takmaz, and Alberto Testoni. Proceedings of ACL.
2025	Can Community Notes Replace Professional Fact-Checkers?. Nadav Borenstein, Greta Warren, Desmond Elliott, and Isabelle Augenstein. Proceedings of ACL.
2025	Seeing What Tastes Good: Revisiting Multimodal Distributional Semantics in the Billion Parameter Era. Dan Oneata, Desmond Elliott, and Stella Frank. Findings of ACL.
2025	How Do Multilingual Language Models Remember Facts?. Constanza Fierro, Negar Foroutan, Desmond Elliott, and Anders Søgaard. Findings of ACL.
2025	Effective Machine Learning Techniques for Non-English Radiology Report Classification: A Danish Case Study. Alice Schiavone, Lea Marie Pehrson, Silvia Ingala, Rasmus Bonnevie, Marco Fraccaro, Dana Li, Michael Bachmann Nielsen, and Desmond Elliott. AI 6(2).