04.11.2026 - Distinguished Lecture Series: Anna Rogers (University of Copenhagen)
We are pleased to announce our upcoming Distinguished Lecture Series Talk by Anna Rogers (University of Copenhagen)! The talk will take place on Wednesday, November 4, 09:45 - 11:15 CET. in room 32.101 in Universitätsstraße 32, Campus Vaihingen. If you are interested in scheduling a meeting please email ellis-office@uni-stuttgart.de
Anna Rogers is a tenured Associate Professor in the Data Science Section at the IT University of Copenhagen, affiliated with the NLPNorth research group. Her work focuses on interpretability and robustness of NLP applications based on Large Language Models, as well as their sociotechnical impacts. She is currently an editor-in-chief of ACL Rolling Review, the peer review platform for all major NLP conferences. She is also one of the chief scientists of the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Society (CAISA). She holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics from the University of Tokyo, followed by postdocs in Machine Learning for NLP (UMass Lowell) and Social Data Science (University of Copenhagen).
Title: Why the ‘bitter lesson’ is wrong for NLP, and how we can make further progress
Why the 'bitter lesson' is wrong for NLP, and how we can make further progress
In the ‘bitter lesson’ paradigm of NLP technology development, training data is assumed to come for free. The negative consequences of this assumptions are becoming increasingly clear, not only for what kinds of methods we develop, but also for creator economy. I argue that both further advances in NLP and social sustainability depend on centering human data, and data attribution provides a pathway towards social and economic incentives to creators.
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Time: 9:45 - 11:15 CET
Place: Universitätstraße 32.101, Campus Vaihingen of the University of Stuttgart.
Looking forward to seeing you all there! No registration necessary.