UKP Lab#EACL2026 in Rabat is in full swing ✨
From papers to hallway discussions - it’s great to see our team actively contributing to this year’s #EACL conference.
Say hello to this group if you’re on site 👇
🔍 Prof. Kementchedjhieva also discussed alternative approaches to improve vision-to-language alignment while maintaining strong language capabilities.
💬 We thank Prof. Kementchedjhieva for the insightful talk and the discussion with UKP members on multimodal modeling and the future of vision-language systems.
#UKPLab #MultimodalAI #VisionLanguageModels #NLP #GuestTalk #NLProc #MBZUAI #TUDa
🏆 We’re proud to share that his project won 𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗲, qualifying him for the national phase!
Congratulations, Mihai, on this well-deserved success and on addressing such an important and timely challenge with empathy and innovation. 👏
Follow Mihai’s journey:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mihai-eduard-ghetu
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mihai-eduard-ghetu.bsky.social
#AIforMentalHealth #JugendForscht #AIInnovation #MentalHealthTech #NextGenAI #AIforGood #YoungTalent #UKPLab
Work by Nils Dycke & Iryna Gurevych (Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt and National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE)
See you at #EACL2026 in Rabat 🕌!
#UKPLab #LLMs #PeerReview #AIforScience #TrustworthyAI #NLP #Evaluation
📄 Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07902
💻 Code and data: https://github.com/UKPLab/eacl2026-culturecare
🔗 Project: https://github.com/UKPLab/arxiv2025-culturecare
Follow the authors Chen Cecilia Liu, Hiba Arnaout, Nils Kovacic, and Iryna Gurevych from the UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt and hessian.ai, as well as Dana Atzil-Slonim from the Psychology Department, Bar-Ilan University.
See you this week in Rabat 🕌! #EACL2026
#UKPLab #CulturalNLP #ResponsibleAI #NLProc #NLP4MentalHealth #NLPsych #NLP #MentalHealth
Tailored Emotional LLM-Supporter: Enhancing Cultural Sensitivity
Large language models (LLMs) show promise in offering emotional support and generating empathetic responses for individuals in distress, but their ability to deliver culturally sensitive support remains underexplored due to a lack of resources. In this work, we introduce CultureCare, the first dataset designed for this task, spanning four cultures and including 1729 distress messages, 1523 cultural signals, and 1041 support strategies with fine-grained emotional and cultural annotations. Leveraging CultureCare, we (i) develop and test four adaptation strategies for guiding three state-of-the-art LLMs toward culturally sensitive responses; (ii) conduct comprehensive evaluations using LLM-as-a-Judge, in-culture human annotators, and clinical psychologists; (iii) show that adapted LLMs outperform anonymous online peer responses, and that simple cultural role-play is insufficient for cultural sensitivity; and (iv) explore the application of LLMs in clinical training, where experts highlight their potential in fostering cultural competence in novice therapists.
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And follow the authors Sukannya Purkayastha, Nils Dycke, and Iryna Gurevych from the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab), Technische Universität Darmstadt and National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, as well as Anne Lauscher from the Data Science Group, University of Hamburg.
See you this week in Rabat 🕌! #EACL2026
#EACL2026 #PeerReview #ScientificPublishing #AIforScience #LLMs #DialogueSystems #Evaluation #ResearchIntegrity #NLP #MachineLearning #UKPLab
Follow the authors: Serwar Basch (UKP Lab/hessian.AI/Technische Universität Darmstadt), Ilia Kuznetsov (UKP Lab/hessian.AI/Technische Universität Darmstadt), Tom Hope (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Ai2), and Iryna Gurevych (UKP Lab/hessian.AI/Technische Universität Darmstadt)
And say hi to us if you are also in Rabat! #EACL2026
#NLProc #UKPLab #NLP #LLMs #AI
#MultiDocumentReasoning #ZeroShotLearning #Evaluation #OpenScience #ComputerScience
Follow the authors Osama Mohammed Afzal and Iryna Gurevych from the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt, as well as Preslav Nakov from MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence) and Tom Hope from Ai2.
See you this #EACL2026 in Rabat 🕌!
#UKPLab #NLP #NLProc #AI #PeerReview #AIforScience #ScientificPublishing #NoveltyDetection #Evaluation #OpenScience
👥 Justus-Jonas Erker (UKP Lab/Technische Universität Darmstadt), Nils Reimers (Cohere), Iryna Gurevych (UKP Lab/Technische Universität Darmstadt)
See you at Hashtag#EACL2026 in Rabat 🕌!
#UKPLab #NLP #NLProc #InformationRetrieval #DenseRetrieval #MultiHop #FactChecking #QuestionAnswering #RAG
👏 Congratulations on this achievement and all the best for Cecilia’s new role as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge!
#NLP #PhDDefense #MultilingualAI #CulturalAI #LanguageModels #UKPLab #TUDarmstadt Computer Science, TU Darmstadt