Welcome!
I am an Assistant Professor in NLP at the University of Aberdeen, and an Invited Lecturer at Heidelberg University. Previously, I was an Invited Postdoc at Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and Heidelberg University, working on the Geometry and Representation Learning. In December 2022, I earned my Ph.D. in NLP from the AIPHES Training Group at TU Darmstadt. I am interested in several core aspects of NLP technologies: multilingual, human-centered, cross-temporal, responsible and ethical use, with application domains in science production, dictionary induction, translation and (more recently) healthcare. I am an Area Chair at ARR, COLING, CoNLL 2025, and a grant application reviewer for EPSRC, Leverhulme Trust and ISPF.
Recent News
08/2025: Two papers about tokenization for temporal reasoning and evaluation of LLMs accepted at EMNLP
05/2025: Our workshop on Towards Human-LLM Collaboration for Ethical and Responsible Science Production will be held at IJCNLP-AACL
05/2025: Our workshop on LLMs for Cross-Temporal Research will be held at COLM
04/2025: Recipient of Outstanding Paper Award at NAACL
04/2025: Recipient of Computing Grant from Google
03/2025: Recipient of Sponsorship Funding from Artificial Intelligence Journal
02/2025: Recipient of Research Catalyst Funding from the University of Aberdeen
01/2025: A paper about evaluation of LLMs accepted at NAACL
01/2025: Recipient of Computing Credits from OpenAI
12/2024: A paper nominated by ARR Area Chair for Best Paper Award
12/2024: Two papers about LLMs for human annotation accepted at the CoMeDi Workshop, co-located with COLING
08/2024: Recipient of Research Collaboration Grant from the Royal Society of Edinburgh
07/2024: A paper about LLMs for lexicography accepted at the LLM-LEX Workshop, co-located with EURALEX
07/2024: Recipient of Computing Credits from Google
06/2024: Three papers about cross-temporal research accepted at the LChange Workshop, co-located with ACL
04/2024: A paper about graph embedding accepted at TMLR
02/2024: A paper about evaluation of LLMs accepted at JMLR
01/2024: A paper about cross-temporal research accepted at EACL
01/2024: Joined the University of Aberdeen
Invited Talks
07/2025: AI-assisted Scientific Discovery, Experimentation, Content Generation, and Evaluation, IT:U Summer School 2025 in Linz, Austra
05/2025: Leipzig University, Germany
04/2025: Temporal Reasoning with LLMs: From Textual to Multimodal Content A*STAR and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
04/2025: LLMs for Cross-Temporal Research at Aalborg University in Copenhagen, Denmark
09/2024: Oxford University Press, UK
09/2024: IR Group, University of Glasgow, UK
06/2024: Stuttgart University, Germany
06/2024: Mannheim University, Germany
06/2024: Université Grenoble Alpes, France
Selected Publications
How Good Are LLMs for Literary Translation, Really? Literary Translation Evaluation with Humans and LLMs - Ran Zhang, Wei Zhao, Steffen Eger, NAACL 2025, Outstanding Paper Award
Transforming Science with Large Language Models: A Survey on AI-assisted Scientific Discovery, Experimentation, Content Generation, and Evaluation - Steffen Eger, Yong Cao, Jennifer D'Souza, Andreas Geiger, Christian Greisinger, Stephanie Gross, Yufang Hou, Brigitte Krenn, Anne Lauscher, Yizhi Li, Chenghua Lin, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Wei Zhao, Tristan Miller, preprint, 02/2025
Research Group (current students)
Qianchen Luo (MSC): LLMs | Temporality | Evaluation
Gagan Bhatia (MSC): LLMs | Temporality | Interpretability
Niklas Lough (BSC): LLMs | Temporality | Forecasting
Roshani Nitin Pawar (MSC): LLMs | Temporality | Datasets Analysis
Ahmad Isa (MSC): LLMs | Temporality | Multilingual NLP
Ran Zhang (PhD, co-supervised w/ Steffen Eger): LLMs | Translation | Evaluation
Yujun Wang (incoming PhD): LLMs | Temporality | Humanities
Shu Fan Sun (BSC): LLMs | Translation | Media Study
Francisco De La Torre Silva (BSC): LLMs | Translation | Sign2Spoken
Ying Xuan Loke (BSC): LLMs | Lexical Semantics | Annotation
Lydia Körber (MSC): LLMs | Lexical Semantics | Lexicography
Melis Çelikkol (MSC): LLMs | Lexical Semantics | Sign Language
Teaching
CS4051: Natural Language Processing (2024-2025) at Aberdeen
CS5063: Evaluation of AI Systems (2024-2025) at Aberdeen
CS551N: Introduction to Programming (2024-2025) at Aberdeen
CS551P: Advanced Programming (2024-2025) at Aberdeen
PS/HS: Diachronic Language Models (2023-2025) at Heidelberg
Open Positions
Deadline: 10/04/2025 MSC thesis project on Evaluation of AI Misuse in Scientific Publications
Deadline: 10/04/2025 MSC thesis project on Generation and Evaluation for Multimodal Scientific Content
Deadline: 15/04/2025 Annotators for Multimodal Scientific Content
Media
10/2024: Large Language Models No Match for Humans in Literary Translation, Slator
05/2025: QA-Based Evaluation Takes on Literary AI Translation, Slator