Yufang Hou

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Yufang Hou is a university professor at IT:U – Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria. At IT:U, she leads the NLP group with a strong focus on large language model (LLM) governance (with a particular focus on content veracity), computational argumentation, fact-checking, knowledge and reasoning, and human-centred multimodal NLP applications in education, science, and health. Yufang has served as a best paper award co-chair at IJCNLP-AACL 2025, a Visa Chair for EACL 2024, and as a Senior Area Chair for EMNLP (2022 – 2024) and NAACL (2024 – 2025). In the past, she has co-organized the 8th Workshop on Argument Mining, the SustaiNLP workshop series from 2021 to 2023, the 1st Workshop on Argumentation Knowledge Graphs, and the first Quantitative Summarization – Key Point Analysis Shared Task.