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.

Retrieval Augmentation

Retrieval augmentation of multimodal models for image captioning.

Multilingual Multimodality

Design, understand, and evaluate multimodality in multilingual models

Recent Publications

2024
Compositional Generalization in Multimodal Models.
Semih Yagcioglu, Osman Batur Ince, Aykut Erdem, Erkut Erdem, Desmond Elliott, and Deniz Yuret.
Proceedings of NAACL.
2024
PAELLA: Parameter-Efficient Lightweight Language-Agnostic Captioning Model.
Rita Ramos, Emanuele Bugliarello, Bruno Martins, and Desmond Elliott.
Findings of NAACL.
2024
The Role of Data Curation in Image Captioning.
Wenyan Li, Jonas Lotz, Chen Qiu, and Desmond Elliott.
Proceedings of EACL.

Faculty

Desmond Elliott
Assistant Professor

Postdocs

Graduate Students

Rita Ramos
Rita Ramos
Ph.D Fellow
(co-advised with Bruno Martins)
Wenyan Li
Ph.D Fellow
(co-advised with Anders Søgaard)
Jonas F. Lotz
Jonas F. Lotz
Ph.D Fellow
(co-advised with Christian Igel)

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
Emiel van Miltenburg PhD 2018. Now at Tilburg University.
Xiang Dai Postdoc. Now Research Scientist at CSIRO Data61
Elham Pezhhan Digitaliseringskonsulent at Thisted Kommune
Mitja Nikolaus Now Ph.D Fellow at Aix-Marseille University