LION Lab

We are a research group at the Department of Computer Science at Leipzig University, Germany, led by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Leonie Weissweiler.

We work on linguistically-oriented natural language processing — asking what language models actually learn about the structure of language, and using insights from linguistic theory to build better, more interpretable NLP systems.


Latest News

2026

Jacob presented three papers at LREC 2026

Including WikIPA, Fill-in-the-Blanks, and DiNoS (at the SLiDE Workshop).

2026

New paper accepted at CoNLL 2026

Language Models Learn Constructional Semantics, Not To Mention Syntax — Wesley Scivetti et al.

April 2026

Welcome, Jacob and Toshiki!

Jacob Lee Suchardt and Toshiki Nakai join the lab as PhD students.

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Funding

We are grateful for support from ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig (Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence).