Prof. Dr.Alan Akbik

Hi, I'm a professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin, leading the chair of machine learning. I focus on natural language processing (NLP) research and the development of popular open source libraries such as Flair NLP.

Check out my research, my publicationsand my Chair!


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New library released!

Our newest library, TransformerRanker, automatically determines which language model (LM) will work best for your NLP task! No more guesswork when choosing transformers - check it out!

Latest News

New Project

Our German-language search engine for quotes is now online!

New PaperarXiv 2024

Our paper "Don’t Mesh with Me: Generating Constructive Solid Geometry Instead of Meshes by Fine-Tuning a Code-Generation LLM" now on arXiv!

Paper acceptedBabyLM 2025

Our paper "BabyHGRN: Exploring RNNs for Sample-Efficient Language Modeling" accepted to BabyLM 2024!

Senior Area ChairNAACL 2025

I will be Senior Area Chair for Information Extraction at NAACL 2025!

Paper acceptedEMNLP 2024

Our paper "NoiseBench: Benchmarking the Impact of Real Label Noise on Named Entity Recognition" accepted to EMNLP 2024 (main conference)!

Paper acceptedEMNLP 2024

Our paper "Less is More: Parameter-Efficient Selection of Intermediate Tasks for Transfer Learning" accepted to EMNLP 2024 (main conference)!

Paper acceptedBioinformatics 2024

Our paper "HunFlair2 in a cross-corpus evaluation of named entity recognition and normalization tools" accepted to Bioinformatics 2024!

New PaperarXiv 2024

Our paper "TransformerRanker: A Tool for Efficiently Finding the Best-Suited Language Models for Downstream Classification Tasks" now on arXiv!

New PaperarXiv 2024

Our paper "Lm-Pub-Quiz: A Comprehensive Framework for Zero-Shot Evaluation of Relational Knowledge in Language Models" now on arXiv!

New Lab Member

Dr. Pieter Delobelle - expert on Dutch-language LLMs (and beyond) - joins our lab!

Senior Area ChairACL 2025

I will be Senior Area Chair for Language Modeling at ACL 2025!

Paper acceptedACL 2024

Our demo paper "Fundus: A Simple-to-Use News Scraper Optimized for High Quality Extractions" accepted to ACL 2024!

Paper acceptedACL 2024

Our paper "Choose Your Transformer: Improved Transferability Estimation of Transformer Models on Classification Tasks" accepted to ACL 2024!

New Research Grant

The Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) approved a new research grant for a Forschungstransfer project to industry partner PIKK Systems!

New Startup Grant

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs (BMWK) approved an EXIST startup grant for FactorizeBio!

Paper acceptedNAACL 2024

Our demo paper "OpinionGPT: Modelling Explicit Biases in Instruction-Tuned LLMs" accepted to NAACL 2024. Also check out our OpinionGPT demo!

Paper acceptedNAACL 2024

Our paper "BEAR: A Unified Framework for Evaluating Relational Knowledge in Causal and Masked Language Models" accepted to NAACL 2024!

New Research Grant

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) approved a new research grant for a 3-year project together with industry partner dida Datenschmiede!