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Minnesota NLP

We’re an interdisciplinary research group drawing from linguistics, the social sciences, and cognitive science to build state-of-the-art AI that supports expert work in law, science, education, and journalism.

Led by Dongyeop Kang & Alexander Spangher (joining Fall 2026) in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota — Twin Cities.

Minnesota NLP group
Est.2021
From the lab
The people

An interdisciplinary team.

Faculty
Postdocs & Visitors
Ph.D. Students
Masters & Undergraduate
Doctoral alumni
Masters & undergraduate alumni

Lab life

Lab members at ACL 2026 in San Diego
ACL 2026 — San Diego
Lab picnic
Lab picnic — April 2026
End-of-semester gathering
End-of-semester gathering — Fall 2025
Reunion at CoLM
Reunion at CoLM
Tennis drill
Tennis drill — May 2024
Selected papers

Recent work.

→ See the complete publication list.

News & notes

What’s happening lately.

With support from

Funding & partners.