Felicia Körner

I’m an ELLIS PhD student in Natural Language Processing at MaiNLP lab (LMU Munich), supervised by Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank, and co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Anna Korhonen. I am also associated with the Munich Center for Machine Learning.
I aim to build robust NLP models which work well in low-resource settings and for a variety of languages; the focus of my PhD is on modular multilingual language modeling. I’m also interested in situated language understanding and dialogue systems, a result of my industry experience in the conversational AI space.
In 2020, I obtained an MSE from Johns Hopkins University in Computer Science, with a focus on Human Language Technology. I was advised by Prof. Dr. Philipp Koehn, and conducted independent research on parallel corpus filtering for the purpose of machine translation.
During my studies, I worked as a software engineer, both frontend and backend, at Big Huge Games, IDIES, and FAST 3D.
After graduation, I was a Machine Learning Researcher at Rasa Technologies, working on an open-source framework for conversational AI. After that, I joined Alana AI, and developed a virtual assistant for stroke patients as part of the RES-Q+ project.
In my free time, I’m an avid runner, and always happy to geek out about running news, or chat about outdoor endeavours.
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Jan 17, 2025 | I will be traveling to COLING 2025! |
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Jan 07, 2025 | Check out our preprint, Add Noise, Tasks, or Layers |
Oct 24, 2024 | Happy to announce Prof. Dr. Anna Korhonen is my secondary ELLIS supervisor! |
Oct 01, 2024 | Started my PhD candidacy at MaiNLP today |
Jul 02, 2024 | Check out my quote in the ELLIS Announcement of the 2023/2024 PhD cohort |