Welcome to the Minnesota NLP group! Minnesota NLP is a research group led by Dongyeop Kang (DK) and Alexander Spangher (joining in Fall 2026) in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. We are an inter-disciplinary team drawing theories from linguistics, social sciences, and cognitive sciences, developing state-of-the-art AI algorithms, and supporting complex experts workflow in law, science, education, journalism, and other fields.

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End-of-semester gathering, 2025 Fall
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Reunion at CoLM
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Farewell lunch, May 9, 2025
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Shirley, Karin, and Ruyuan at EMNLP! Nov 12, 2024
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Tennis Drill! May 3, 2024
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Escape room! Feb 21, 2024
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NAACL paper clinic! Nov 2023
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Korean BBQ Party with Soju+Beer, Sep 22, 2022
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Corn Maze, Oct 29, 2022
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Meetup without DK!
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Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Last updated in 2025