I am the CAROLL Research Group Leader (supported by the BMBF program for Women in AI), at the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics of the University of Passau, Germany.
In April 2023, I took a role of interim Professor of Legal Informatics and NLP at the Faculty of Law, University of Passau.
My research interests lie in the broad area of Natural Language Processing (NLP). I am especially interested in Computational Rhetoric, i.e. processing of non-literal language and detection of rhetorical figures, applied to Sentiment Analysis, Offensive language modelling and detection, Legal Tech, Argumentation Mining and other areas of NLP.
I live in Passau with my husband, two children, the world's calmest Jack Russell Terrier, Penny, and her younger, not so calm protégé, Bella.
My name is Serbian and has a diacritic at the last letter: Jelena Mitrović (Mitrovi\'{c})
- PI in the University of Passau Project "Deep Write" in the scope of the KI Campus funding scheme.
- Member of the Board of Scientific Directors of the Rhetoricon project (University of Waterloo, Canada).
- Management Committe Member of the COST Action Nexus Linguarum.
- Organizer of the Abusive language dataset annotation workshop in Skopje, North Macedonia, as part of NexusLinguarum COST Action.
- Member of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
- ACL SIGLEX-MWE Standing Committee nominated officer, since September 2018.
- Founding Member of the Language Resources and Technology Group, University of Belgrade,Serbia.
- Quality reviewer for EU Project deliverables of the SSIX project https://ssix-project.eu/public-deliverables/
- Quality reviewer of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition working document about Artificial Intelligence and Copyright law.
- Program Committee Member at KEYSTONE 2015, KEYSTONE 2017, ACL 2019, ACL 2020, EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019,
NAACL-HLT 2019, 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2020, Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2020,
AACL-IJCNLP 2020, EMNLP 2020, SemEval 2020, OffensEval 2020, 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2021, IEEE CIC 2021, NLLP Workshop 2021, HASOC @ FIRE 2021, ACL Rolling Review 2022.
- Organizer and Program Committee chair of the MWE-WN Workshop at ACL 2019, and MWE-LEX at COLING 2020.
- Senior project supervisor at the Basis Independent Silicon Valley School, California, USA.
- Reviewer for the Journal of Natural Language Engineering published by Cambridge University Press, Infotheca Journal for Digital Humanities, and PLOS ONE.