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Professor of Computer Science at the University of Marburg. Working on Natural Language Processing (NLP), AI for Social Good, and Legal Tech. | Foto: Martin Schäfer www.responsible-nlp.net

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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Auf dem Weg nach Dresden zur #INFORMATIK26. Ich freue mich auf spannende Gespräche und besonders natürlich auf die neuen GI Junior Fellows!
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Our paper on anti-LGBTQ bias in German & multilingual LMs has been accepted to EMNLP 2026! The work started as the Master’s thesis of one of our students. The findings highlight why multilingual bias evaluation must go beyond translating English benchmarks and involve the communities represented.
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Evaluating and Mitigating Anti-LGBTQ Biases in German and Multilingual Language Models
While gender and racial biases in language models have been widely studied, anti-LGBTQ biases remain underexplored, particularly beyond English. Existing benchmarks often do not capture cultural and l...
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In light of OpenAI’s “runaway” AI, a local newspaper asked me whether we’ve lost control of AI. We’ll see more AI-driven hacks. It's important to take a close look: A model optimized to find vulnerabilities, stripped of safeguards, and without oversight, isn’t rogue AI. It’s human negligence.
op-marburg.de
KIs brechen aus Testbereichen aus – Marburger Experte: „Das wird öfter passieren“
Im Juli 2026 brachen mehrfach KIs aus geschützten Testbereichen aus und streiften auf eigene Faust durch das Internet. Ob wir die Kontrolle über die KI verlieren, erklärt der Informatiker und KI-Forsc...
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Artificial Artificial Intelligence is dead
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Hey @aclrollingreview.bsky.social, is it intentional that reviewers can now see an author's country of origin (and visa requirements)? That seems like information that should be hidden from reviewers in a double-blind review process.
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DM Howcroft 🦔 @davehowcroft.com · 01/06/2026
Very exciting to see #RetroEval kicking off with a wonderful welcome from Dean Nir Oren celebrating Ehud's long career at the @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social and a keynote from Sina Zarrieß!
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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The International conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG) just issued the first Call For Papers: 2026.inlgmeeting.org/calls.html #nlproc
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INLG2026
The 19th International Natural Language Generation Conference is scheduled to be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands from October 17 to 21, 2026.
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
There is still some time left (until 2nd of May) to apply for one of the three PhD positions in the project "Human-in-Control: Implementing employee co-determination in the design, development, and deployment of AI" in my NLP research group at Marburg University. More info: responsible-nlp.net/nfg/
responsible-nlp.net
NFG | Natural Language Processing Group
Website of the research group on Natural Language Processing at Marburg University.
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Ich freue mich in Zukunft als Mitglied des Beirats Digitaler Verbraucherschutz das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik beraten zu dürfen und der Vertreter der @informatik.bsky.social in diesem Gremium zu sein. Mehr Informationen gibt es beim BSI: www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Themen/Ve...
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Beirat Digitaler Verbraucherschutz
Zweck, Beschreibung und Zusammensetzung des Beirats Digitaler Verbraucherschutz
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
We are looking for 3 PhD students! The @boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social is funding a research group on “Human-in-Control: Implementing employee co-determination in the design, development, and deployment of artificial intelligence” and we are looking for 3 students. Details: responsible-nlp.net/nfg/
responsible-nlp.net
NFG | Natural Language Processing Group
Website of the research group on Natural Language Processing at Marburg University.
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Dirk Hovy @dirkhovy.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
New year, new job? If that is your current mantra, check the open postdoc positions with Debora Nozza and me at our lab. Deadline is January 31st. milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...
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Postdoctoral Researcher – NLP (2 positions) | MilaNLP Lab @ Bocconi University
Two Postdoctoral Researcher positions – Deadline January 31st, 2026
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Alles Gute zum #GIburtstag! Als GI-Mitglieder gestalten wir gemeinsam die digitale Zukunft. 💛 Lust mitzumachen? Hier gibt's alle Infos zur Mitgliedschaft: gi.de/mitgliedschaft #WirSindInformatik
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
This week, I’m in Heidelberg attending the Heidelberg Laureat Forum #hlf25. It’s always a great pleasure to be among some of the smartest minds in Math and Computer Science and see what they are working on.
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Are LLMs “Yes Sayers”? Humans often show acquiescence bias, i.e. prefer positive answers in questionnaires and surveys regardless of their actual belief. We investigated if LLMs show a similar bias and found: they’re disproportionately likely to answer “No,” even when the meaning flips.
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Acquiescence Bias in Large Language Models
Acquiescence bias, i.e. the tendency of humans to agree with statements in surveys, independent of their actual beliefs, is well researched and documented. Since Large Language Models (LLMs) have…
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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Excited to announce the first-ever Workshop for Young Researchers in Natural Language Generation (YNLG), supported by @siggen.bsky.social, taking place on October 29, 2025 in Hanoi, Vietnam, co-located with INLG 2025. Call for Submissions is out now! ynlg-workshop.github.io
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The numbers in NLP research these days are just madness. #acl2025
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
On my way to Vienna for #ACL2025 @aclmeeting.bsky.social. Hit me up if you want to talk about Legal NLP, Perspectivism and Disagreement, AI for Social Good or other stuff.
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Ehud Reiter @ehudreiter.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Ive written a "Last Word" opinion piece for CL about evaluating real-world impact. It * looks at how impact can be evaluated * shows via a structured survey that perhaps 0.1% of ACL Anth papers measure real-world impact * discusses why this is the case arxiv.org/abs/2507.05973
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We Should Evaluate Real-World Impact
The ACL community has very little interest in evaluating the real-world impact of NLP systems. A structured survey of the ACL Anthology shows that perhaps 0.1% of its papers contain such evaluations; ...
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Now finally assigned an issue number: my article »Why “Artificial Intelligence” Should Not Be Regulated«, in which I argue not against technology regulation, but against arbitrary definitions of 'AI' by lawmakers and in favor of risk-based, technology-independent regulation.
dl.acm.org
Why “Artificial Intelligence” Should Not Be Regulated | Digital Government: Research and Practice
Lawmakers all over the world have started to draft new regulations for Artificial Intelligence (AI). While the European Union is currently leading the way with its AI Act, many other legislators will ...
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Ivan Habernal @ivanhabernal.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Hosted at RUB, with people attending from Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Regensburg, Magdeburg, and Prague, I think our AI & Law Seminars is growing pretty well! Thanks @d4br4.bsky.social for coming over and giving a super inspiring talk on "disagreement (?)" in legal NLP
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Spent a very interesting day talking about NLP in the legal domain at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Thank you for having me and the nice discussions!
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 31/03/2025
🏹 Job alert: DTU Compute is hiring a Tenure Track Assistant/Associate Professor in AI, funded by the Pioneer Centre for AI (@aicentre.dk). DTU Compute is a key partner in the Unit Copenhagen. 📍 Kgs. Lyngby, near Copenhagen 📅 Apply by Apr 30 🔗 More info: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Associate Professor or DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor in AI - DTU Compute
Are you passionate about Human Centered AI and can you help build the next generations of AI systems within the Danish Pioneer Centre for AI? DTU Compute has an attractive group leader opening as Tenu...
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Verwaltungsanalogisierung
Ein Stempel mit der Aufschrift Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik der Philipps-Universität - Prof. Dr. Daniel Braun -
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Jesse Davis @jessejdavis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
We are hiring for PhD positions! I’m looking for people interested in exploring the intersection of learning and reasoning with applications to anomaly detection and sports. @dtai-kuleuven.bsky.social @wannesm.bsky.social www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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Several PhD Positions in Artificial Intelligence at Computer Science KU Leuven
All positions are in the Machine Learning subgroup of the Section for Declarative Languages and Artificial Intelligence (DTAI), which is part of the Department of Computer Science at KU Leuven. The DT...
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Miryam de Lhoneux @mdlhx.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Come present your #NLP work in Leuven!
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
A hill I will die on is that AI ⊃ ML and not AI = ML. If regulators only mean to regulate ML they should simply do so and not try to redefine AI.
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Dominik Deffner @dominikdeffner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
🏰 PhD position on computational modelling | collective dynamics | cultural evolution 🏰 Get in touch with any questions you might have and join me in beautiful Marburg! stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/c... (Deutsch) stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3... (English)
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Dirk Hovy @dirkhovy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Over the last few years, several people from the @milanlp.bsky.social lab went onto the academic job market in #NLP. Based on the conversations with them, I collected some observations we shared internally. In case they are useful for others, though, here they are: dirkhovy.com/post/2025_01...
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How to professor | Dirk Hovy
It feels not long ago that I was worried about my job applications, but in reality, I have done this long enough that some of my first MSc supervisees are professors of their own now. Every few months...
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I always find the notion that the European AI industry is held back by (over) regulation quite surprising. Most rules of the AI act will not apply before August 2026. GDPR came into force in 2018. Where have all the EU's big tech companies been before? Clearly regulation is not our (biggest) problem
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I'm hiring! Fully funded, full-time PhD position in Natural Language Processing at the University of Marburg. It's an open topic position, so you will have the chance to shape your own topic within the research areas of the group. If you have any questions or doubts please get in touch. #NLP #NLProc
stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de
Doctoral Researcher/PhD
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Very happy to see our paper on the ABG-DE corpus for the legal assessment of clauses in German contracts on the list! aclanthology.org/2024.acl-lon...
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
Exciting career news: Next month, I will join the University of Marburg as Professor for Computer Science and Head of the Natural Language Processing group. That also means I will be hiring PhD students soon, details will follow.
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
Why "Artificial Intelligence" Should Not Be Regulated For a special issue of Digital Government, I wrote a commentary arguing that "AI" should not be regulated. Not because AI can't be dangerous or AI systems shouldn't be regulated, but because AI is ill-defined and a useless regulatory category.
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Why
Lawmakers all over the world have started to draft new regulations for Artificial Intelligence (AI). While the European Union is currently leading the way with its AI Act, many other legislators will ...
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
The German Informatics Society (@informatik.bsky.social) will honour me as Junior Fellow at their annual meeting in two weeks. I'm very flattered to be in the company of very talented and bright people (and to still be considered young 😉).
gi.de
KI, Medizin, Recht und Diversität: GI ernennt vier Informatik-Talente zu Junior-Fellows
Vier junge Menschen, die die Informatik voranbringen: Am 24. September 2024 werden Franziska Boenisch, Dr. Daniel Braun, Bettina Finzel und Mareike Lisker von der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI)...
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
I’m in Bangkok for #ACL2024 and will talk about Legal NLP:
On Monday I present our corpus and paper AGB-DE (arxiv.org/abs/2406.06809) at the third poster session. 
On Thursday I will talk about teaching NLP in Law School as part of the Workshop on Teaching NLP.
arxiv.org
AGB-DE: A Corpus for the Automated Legal Assessment of Clauses in...
Legal tasks and datasets are often used as benchmarks for the capabilities of language models. However, openly available annotated datasets are rare. In this paper, we introduce AGB-DE, a corpus...
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
That’s quite interesting: A report from Goldman Sachs questioning whether the use of Generative AI is actually financially sustainable. I personally think we will see more and more that it is often not, particularly for tasks where “simpler” models exist. www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence...
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Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit?
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
New ⚖️ Legal NLP ⚖️ corpus: AGB-DE is a corpus of more than 3,700 clauses from German consumer contracts that have been legally assessed and annotated by experts. We will present the corpus and a baseline for the task of automated legal assessment at ACL. arxiv.org/abs/2406.06809
arxiv.org
AGB-DE: A Corpus for the Automated Legal Assessment of Clauses in...
Legal tasks and datasets are often used as benchmarks for the capabilities of language models. However, openly available annotated datasets are rare. In this paper, we introduce AGB-DE, a corpus...
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
Even in the age of Large Language Models, rule-based NLG is alive and has a role to play. Very happy to start a new project on applications of NLG in the health sector with the company Raiys, as part of which Raiys will also support the further development of SimpleNLG-DE.
github.com
GitHub - sebischair/SimpleNLG-DE: German version of SimpleNLG 4
German version of SimpleNLG 4. Contribute to sebischair/SimpleNLG-DE development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
I’m at JURIX in Maastricht this week, starting with the Workshop on Legal Data Annotation.
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
There is now a little bit over a week left to apply for our fully-funded PhD position on disagreement and perspectivism in NLP.
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Hallo Jena, hallo Digital Gipfel 👋
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Yesterday, I received the Consumer and Consumer Sciences Prize from the Verbraucherzentrale NRW! I am very happy that my work on the automatic semantic and legal analysis of T&C is seen as a meaningful contribution by the experts in the field of consumer research too.
verbraucherzentrale.nrw
Verbraucherrechte bei Smart Home und AGBs unter der KI-Lupe | Verbraucherzentrale NRW
Die Verbraucherzentrale NRW hat erstmals die „Förderpreise Konsum & Verbraucherwissenschaften“ verliehen
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
I am looking for a PhD student to work on aspects of disagreement and perspectivism in Natural Language Processing. Paid fulltime position at the University of Twente, application deadline 4th of December. If you have any questions get in touch! More info and application via:
utwentecareers.nl
PhD Position on Perspectivism and Disagreement in Natural Language Processing - Looking for a job th...
ML and NLP approaches and the processes surrounding them often focus on finding a single “truth” or gold standard by majority vote and removing any “outliers”. From the curation of data sets (...
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
In der Politik ist man bis 35 jung. Deshalb durfte ich beim Common Grounds Forum der @informatik.bsky.social mit anderen jungen Menschen über Digitalpolitik diskutieren. Im November werde ich mit weiteren Vertreter:innen unsere Positionen beim Digital-Gipfel der Bundesregierung vorstellen.
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Daniel Braun @d4br4.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Hi Bluesky! I'm a computer scientist working on AI 4 Social Good at the University of Twente. I mostly focus on methods and applications of NLP and NLG in domains like law and education, to make our world a bit better. You can find out more about my work on my website:
daniel-braun.science
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