Foundation Models for Natural Language Processing

Sven Giesselbach is the leader of the Natural Language Understanding (NLU) team at the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS), where he has specialized in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. He and his team develop solutions in the areas of medical, legal and general document understanding, which in their core build upon Foundation Models. Sven Giesselbach is also part of the Competence Center for Machine Learning Rhine-Ruhr (ML2R), where he works as a research scientist and investigates Informed Machine Learning, a paradigm in which knowledge is injected into machine learning models, in conjunction with language modeling. He has published more than 10 papers on Natural Language Processing and Understanding, which focus on the creation of application-ready NLU systems and the integration of expert knowledge in various stages of the solution design. He led the development of the Natural Language Understanding Showroom, a platform for showcasing state-of-the-art Natural Language Understanding models. He regularly gives talks about NLU at summer schools, conferences and AI-Meetups.