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.

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Research Areas

Pixel Language Models

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

Multimodal Learning

Design, understand, and evaluate multimodality in multilingual models

Retrieval Augmentation

Retrieval augmentation of multimodal models for image captioning.

Recent Publications

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).

Ph.D Students

Rita Ramos
Rita Ramos
(co-advised with Bruno Martins)
Wenyan Li
(co-advised with Anders Søgaard)
Jonas F. Lotz
Jonas F. Lotz
(co-advised with Christian Igel)
Konstantin Dobler
(co-advised with Gerard de Melo)
Ingo Ziegler
Ingo Ziegler
Israfel Salazar
Israfel Salazar
Hannah Claus
(co-advised with Anna Korhonen)
Mehmet Onurcan Kaya
Mehmet Onurcan Kaya
(co-advised with Dimitrios Papadopoulos)
Monica Riedler
Monica Riedler
(co-advised with A. Sophia Koepke)

Collaborators

Stella Frank University of Copenhagen
Bruno Martins Instituto Superior Técnico
CoAStaL University of Copenhagen

Alumni

Emanuele Bugliarello Ph.D 2023. Now Research Scientist at Google
Alice Schiavone Research Assistant Now at NRU.
Emiel van Miltenburg PhD 2018. Now at Tilburg University.
Xiang Dai Postdoc Research Scientist at CSIRO Data61
Elham Pezhhan Visiting Ph.D Student Data Scientist at Vattenfall
Mitja Nikolaus Visiting Student Postdoc at Paul Sabatier University