Trustworthy AI Lab
Hamburg

We are a research group at the University of Hamburg led by Anne Lauscher, working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and human-centered computing. Our mission is to build AI systems that are reliable, culturally aware, and aligned with human values.

Research Areas

Trustworthy AI Natural Language Processing Fairness & Bias Multilingual NLP Human-Centered AI Cultural Awareness Gender-Inclusive Language Large Language Models

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2026 ·
Reviewing the Reviewer: Elevating Peer Review Quality through LLM-Guided Feedback
Sukannya Purkayastha, Qile Wan, Anne Lauscher, Lizhen Qu, Iryna Gurevych
Peer review is central to scientific quality, yet reliance on simple heuristics -- lazy thinking -- has lowered standards. Prior work treats lazy thinking detection as a single-label task, but review segments may exhibit multiple issues, including broader clarity problems, or specificity issues. Turning detection into actionable improvements requires guideline-aware feedback, which is currently missing. We introduce an LLM-driven framework that decomposes reviews into argumentative segments, identifies issues via a neurosymbolic module combining LLM features with traditional classifiers, and generates targeted feedback using issue-specific templates refined by a genetic algorithm. Experiments show our method outperforms zero-shot LLM baselines and improves review quality by up to 92.4\%. We also release LazyReviewPlus, a dataset of 1,309 sentences labeled for lazy thinking and specificity.
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Latest News All news →
February 01, 2026
Welcome to our new PhD student Urs Zaberer joining the lab!
January 01, 2026
Three papers accepted at the EACL 2026!