Kemal Kurniawan

I am a Research Fellow in the Natural Language Processing group at the School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne and a 2025 DAAD AInet Fellow. My research is characterised by a focus on disadvantaged groups, such as speakers of underrepresented languages and marginalised cohorts in Australian society. The latter is facilitated through a collaboration with Justice Connect, a non-profit providing free legal assistance. Generating tangible real-world impacts, in 2025 the collaboration was: (a) selected as a Finalist of the Engagement Australia Award for the Excellence in Community Engagement category and (b) recognised with an award for Excellence in Engagement for Public Value and Social Inclusion by the Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Melbourne. I have published in leading NLP venues such as Computational Linguistics, ACL, NAACL, and EACL. My work has been recognised with a Best Paper award in ALTA 2024 and an Outstanding Paper award in EACL 2023. Recently, I have developed an interest in neurosymbolic methods, Responsible AI, and Green AI.

I am NOT accepting external students nor interns. Emails asking for such positions will be ignored.

News

  • [08/10/25] Our paper “Training and Evaluating with Human Label Variation: An Empirical Study” is accepted for publication in Computational Linguistics!
  • [01/10/25] Our project with Justice Connect “Employing AI for Equity to Legal Access in Australia” is selected as a Finalist in the Engagement Australia Excellence Awards for Excellence in Community Engagement category!
  • [01/09/25] I am selected to deliver an Oral Presentation “A Case Study in Human Label Variation: Developing Fair Models Utilising a Diversity of Opinions” at the Next Generation Responsible AI Symposium!
  • [30/06/25] We won the FEIT Excellence Awards in Engagement for Public Value and Social Inclusion!
  • [28/04/25] I am selected as a DAAD AInet Fellow!
  • [04/12/24] Our paper “Generating bilingual example sentences with large language models as lexicography assistants” is selected as Best Paper at ALTA 2024!
  • [25/06/24] Our paper “To Aggregate or Not to Aggregate. That is the Question: A Case Study on Annotation Subjectivity in Span Prediction” is accepted to WASSA 2024!
  • [08/11/23] I completed my PhD, with no corrections! My thesis is available online.
  • [28/08/23] I’m starting as a postdoc at Unimelb until 2025!
  • [22/01/23] Our paper “NusaX: Multilingual Parallel Sentiment Dataset for 10 Indonesian Local Languages” is accepted to EACL 2023!
  • [08/04/22] Our paper “Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Transfer of Structured Predictors without Source Data” is accepted to NAACL 2022!
  • [21/03/22] I’m joining Amazon as an Applied Scientist Intern here in Melbourne!
  • [24/02/22] Our paper “One Country, 700+ Languages: NLP Challenges for Underrepresented Languages and Dialects in Indonesia” is accepted to ACL 2022!
  • [20/04/21] We moved to a new building, Melbourne Connect, at 700 Swanston street. See photos by Jey Han.
  • [30/03/21] Our paper is accepted to SemEval-2021 Task 10: Source-Free Domain Adaptation for Semantic Processing.

Contact

For things related to my research work:

Office:4.129, Melbourne Connect, 700 Swanston Street, Carlton VIC 3053
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