Barbara Plank

Professor (Chair) for AI & Computational Linguistics, LMU Munich; head of MaiNLP; visiting prof. ITU Copenhagen

Researcher

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Why they are on the map

'The Problem of Human Label Variation' (EMNLP 2022) — founding paper on treating annotator disagreement as signal, not noise source — evidence dated 2025

Shapes what 'good data' means.

Full dossier pending

This person was mapped in pass 1. Career, what they have said on the record, interviews, connections, why they matter to us and how to reach them are added in pass 2, which starts with tier A.

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