Ivan Habernal

Ivan Habernal

ivan.habernal@uni-paderborn.de
Institution: Paderborn University
Department: Department of Computer Science
Position: Head of the Natural Language Processing Group
We focus on trustworthy human language technologies.

Privacy-preserving natural language processing, legal natural language processing, trustworthy models

  • A Comprehensive Survey on Legal Summarization: Challenges and Future Directions (2026)

    Authors: Mousumi Akter, Erion Çano, Erik Weber, Dennis Dobler, Ivan Habernal

    Published at: ACM Computing Surveys (Volume: 58)
    DOI: 10.1145/3776586

  • The Conundrum of Trustworthy Research on Attacking Personally Identifiable Information Removal Techniques (2026)

    Authors: Sebastian Ochs, Ivan Habernal

    Published at: Computational Linguistics
    DOI: 10.1162/COLI.a.615

  • Private Synthetic Text Generation with Diffusion Models (2025)

    Authors: Sebastian Ochs, Ivan Habernal

    Published at: Proceedings of the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Long Papers Naacl Hlt 2025 (Volume: 1)
    DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-long.532

  • Preface (2025)

    Authors: Tomáš Koref, Lena Held, Ivan Habernal

    Published at: Ceur Workshop Proceedings (Volume: 4089)

  • The Impact of Inference Acceleration on Bias of LLMs (2025)

    Authors: Elisabeth Kirsten, Ivan Habernal, Vedant Nanda, Muhammad Bilal Zafar

    Published at: Proceedings of the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Long Papers Naacl Hlt 2025 (Volume: 1)
    DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-long.91

  • Mining legal arguments in court decisions (2024)

    Authors: Ivan Habernal, Daniel Faber, Nicola Recchia, Sebastian Bretthauer, Iryna Gurevych, Indra Spiecker genannt Döhmann, Christoph Burchard

    Published at: Artificial Intelligence and Law (Volume: 32)
    DOI: 10.1007/s10506-023-09361-y

  • SemEval-2024 Task 5: Argument Reasoning in Civil Procedure (2024)

    Authors: Lena Held, Ivan Habernal

    Published at: Semeval 2024 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation Proceedings of the Workshop
    DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.semeval-1.276

  • Answering legal questions from laymen in German civil law system (2024)

    Authors: Marius Büttner, Ivan Habernal

    Published at: Eacl 2024 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Proceedings of the Conference (Volume: 1)

  • LaCour!: enabling research on argumentation in hearings of the European Court of Human Rights (2024)

    Authors: Lena Held, Ivan Habernal

    Published at: Artificial Intelligence and Law
    DOI: 10.1007/s10506-024-09428-4

  • To Share or Not to Share: What Risks Would Laypeople Accept to Give Sensitive Data to Differentially-Private NLP Systems? (2024)

    Authors: Christopher Weiss, Frauke Kreuter, Ivan Habernal

    Published at: 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics Language Resources and Evaluation Lrec Coling 2024 Main Conference Proceedings