Dr. Carolin Lawrence
Manager, NEC Labs Europe
Heidelberg, Germany
Manager, NEC Labs Europe
Heidelberg, Germany
I am the manager of Human-Centric AI (HAI) and Chief Research Scientist at NEC Labs Europe. I lead research projects on natural language processing and explainable AI that build the foundation for business applications. The projects focus on creating understandable and supportive AI systems that extend human capabilities.
From 2014-2018 I was graduate research assistant and PhD student at the Heidelberg University, supervised by Prof. Dr. Stefan Riezler, working on learning from human feedback (e.g. with reinforcement learning) for Natural Language Processing.
Research Interests
- Explainable AI: AI should enrich our lives and for this we should work on interpretable, trustworthy and inclusive AI. [Video: Explainable AI] [Video: Explainable AI and Human Centricity]
- Natural Language Processing, particularly Question-Answering and Information Extraction. [Video: Understanding Natural Language Processing (NLP)]
News
2024
- Member of the EACL 2024 Best Paper Award Committee
- Senior Area Chair for the Interpretability, Interactivity and Analysis of Models for NLP track at NAACL 2024
- Senior Area Chair for the Interpretability, Interactivity and Analysis of Models for NLP track at ACL 2024
2023
- 1 paper accepted at EMNLP Main Track, as well as several workshop submissions
- Won an Outstanding Senior Area Chair award from ACL 2023
- Talk at KMD Steam 2023 on “Towards Safe & Explainable Usage for LLMs”
- Talk at the Okazaki Lab, Tokyo Tech on “From Text via Knowledge Graph to Explainable Insights”
- Senior Area Chair for the Interpretability, Interactivity and Analysis of Models for NLP track at ACL 2023
- 1 paper accepted at AAAI 2023 + a workshop paper
- Area Chair for ACL ARR
2022
- Honored to be a panelist on the “Responsible AI” panel hosted by the Singapore FinTech Festival
- Co-session chair for “Information Extraction 2” at EMNLP 2022
- Area Chair for the Interpretability, Interactivity and Analysis of Models for NLP track at EMNLP
- 1 paper accepted at EMNLP System Demos
- 2 Papers accepted at the Blackbox NLP workshop, co-located with EMNLP
- 1 paper accepted at ICDM
- 3 papers accepted at ACL
- Students from Danish and other European universities wrote a series of great blog posts based on EMNLP 2022 papers and talks, this was based on the half-day workshop on scientific communication I gave last year
- Action Editor for ACL ARR