Prospective PhD students
Externally funded doctoral projects aligned with the group’s research themes.
Research groupUniversity of Groningen
ArgsBaseLab
AI for reasoning, critical thinking, and society
ArgsBase Lab studies and builds language technologies that help people and AI reason more critically about complex issues. Our work connects human–AI reasoning, deliberation, computational argumentation, multilingual AI, and societal NLP.
Human–AI Reasoning
Computational Argumentation
Deliberation
Critical Thinking
Discourse Analysis
Knowledge Graphs
Argument Search
Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26, 9712EK Groningen
Featured Tools
Tools for language, argument, and reasoning
Interfaces and research systems for exploring arguments, summaries, literature, and human-AI deliberation.
Latest News
Updates from our group
2025
Co-organised Lorentz Center workshop
Khalid Al-Khatib co-organised the Lorentz Center workshop Hybrid Argumentation and Responsible AI.
2025
QatarDebate Fellowship
Khalid Al-Khatib received the QatarDebate Fellowship in support of current research activity.
2025
JTS Early Career Researcher Prize
Recognition from the Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society, Technology and AI.
2025
Toward Reasonable Parrots
A position paper on why large language models should argue with us by design was nominated for the best paper award at ArgMining 2025.
2025
Arabic debate and argument mining papers
The group contributed new work on culturally-aware Arabic debate platforms, Arabic argument mining, narratives, and critical-question generation.
2024
TL;DR Progress at EACL 2024
A multi-faceted interface for literature exploration in text summarization was presented at EACL 2024.
2024
EMNLP 2024 publications
New work appeared on argument effectiveness across ideologies and on argumentation theory-driven prompting for implied misogynistic reasoning.
2024
Summary and discussion analysis
The group continued work on long-discussion summarization and literature exploration tools linked to Webis and ArgsBase Lab research.
Collaboration
Work with us
We welcome conversations with prospective PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting researchers whose work fits the group’s themes in language technology, argumentation, discourse, and human–AI reasoning.
Postdoctoral fellowships
Applications are welcome for externally funded postdoctoral projects and proposal development.
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
- Other national or bilateral fellowship schemes
Visiting researchers
Short research visits, collaborative writing, and tool- or dataset-centered exchanges.
- Research visits and sabbatical collaborations
- Joint workshops, demos, and student projects
When there is no live vacancy listed, the group is still open to discussing strong externally funded applications and research visits. Follow the University of Groningen vacancies page for current openings.
Vacancies
Follow the University vacancy pages
You can also monitor the current PhD vacancies page for doctoral openings and the broader working at Groningen page for university-wide opportunities.