Graduate Advising

Current PhD advisees:

• Leona Colling
  • Data Analytics and Teacher Dashboards in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (working title)
• Walid Elhefny
  • TBD
• Tanja Heck
  • On the interaction between exercise generation, macro-adaptivity and micro-adaptivity in CALL (working title)
• Denise Löfflad
  • TBD

  

Graduated PhD advisees:

• Zarah Weiss (LEAD)
  • An Integrative Approach to Linguistic Complexity Analysis for German
• Serge Bibauw, PhD 2022, UC Louvain, Belgium
  • Learning with conversational AI:
    Design and effectiveness of dialogue-based computer-assisted language learning
  • (as external advisor, internal advisors Thomas François and Piet Desmet)
• Björn Rudzewitz (LEAD)
  • Learning Analytics in Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning
• Gabriella Daroczy (LEAD)
  • Linguistic and Arithmetic Factors in Word Problems
    (as second advisor, first advisor Hans-Christoph Nürk)
• Heiko Holz (LEAD)
  • Design, development, and evaluation of research tools for evidence-based learning: A digital game-based spelling training for german primary school children
• Simón Eduardo Ruiz Hernández (LEAD)
  • Individual differences and instructed Second Language Acquisition: Insights from Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning
  • → now Assistant Professor at the Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
• Xiaobin Chen (LEAD)
  • Automatic Analysis of Linguistic Complexity and Its Application in Language Learning Research
  • → now Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge.
• Maria Chinkina (LEAD)
  • Analyzing Authentic Texts for Language Learning: Web-based Technology for Input Enrichment and Question Generation
  • → now Software Development Engineer Mercedes-Benz MBUX Voice Assistant
• Katharina Wendebourg (née Braungart)
  • How Can Grammar Learning be Facilitated? Insights from the Learning of Latin Morpho-Syntax
    (as second advisor, first advisor Barbara Kaup)
  • → now Postdoctoral researcher at the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology
• Ramon Ziai
  • Short Answer Assessment in Context: The Role of Information Structure
  • → now principal NLP engineer at Bettermarks GmbH
• Serhiy Bykh, PhD 2017, LEAD, Universität Tübingen
  • "Is There Choice in Non-Native Voice?" Linguistic Feature Engineering and a Variationist Perspective in Automatic Native Language Identification
  • → now Software Development Engineer, Daimler Benz
• Robert Reynolds, PhD 2016, Universitetet i Tromsø (UiT)
  • Russian natural language processing for computer-assisted language learning -- Capturing the benefits of deep morphological analysis in real-life applications
    (co-advising with Laura Janda)
  • → now Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities, Brigham Young University
• Sowmya V.B., PhD 2015, LEAD, Universität Tübingen
  • Analyzing Text Complexity and Text Simplification: Connecting Linguistics, Processing and Educational Applications
  • → now Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics Program, Iowa State University
• Sabrina Wilske, PhD 2015, Universität des Saarlandes.
  • Form and meaning in dialogue-based computer-assisted language learning
    (external advisor, internal advisor: Manfred Pinkal, Universität des Saarlandes)
  • → now Data Scientist at TNS UK in London.
• Hagen Hirschmann, PhD 2013, Humbodt Universität zu Berlin
  • Modifikatoren im Deutschen [Modifiers in German]
  • → now postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
• Martí Quixal, PhD 2012, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Universität Tübingen.
  • Language Learning Tasks and Automatic Analysis of Learner Language.
    Connecting FLTL and NLP in the design of ICALL materials supporting effective use in real-life instruction
  • (cotutelle with Toni Badia, UPF)
• Adriane Boyd , PhD 2012, The Ohio State University.
  • Automatic Diagnosis of Written Errors for Beginning Learners of German
• Ken Peterson, PhD 2010, Georgetown University.
  • Implicit corrective feedback in computer-guided interaction: Does Mode Matter?
    
  • (second advisor, primary advisor: Alison Mackey, Georgetown University)
• Stacey Bailey, PhD 2008, The Ohio State University.
  • Content Assessment in Intelligent Computer-Aided Language Learning:
    Meaning Error Diagnosis for English as a Second Language
  • → now Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer at MITRE Corporation
• Luiz Alexandre Amaral, PhD 2007, The Ohio State University.
  • Designing Intelligent Language Tutoring Systems for Integration into Foreign Language Instruction
  • → now Associate Professor, University of Massachussetts Amherst
• Xiaofei Lu, PhD 2006, The Ohio State University.
  • Hybrid Models for Chinese Unknown Word Resolution
  • → now Associate Professor, Penn State University
• Markus Dickinson, PhD 2005, The Ohio State University.
  • Error detection and correction in annotated corpora
  • → now Associate Professor, Indiana University Bloomington
• Mike Daniels, PhD 2005, The Ohio State University.
  • Generalized ID/LP Grammar:
    A Formalism for Parsing Linearization-Based HPSG Grammars
  • → now Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Speech and Language Group, Redmond

  

External PhD committee member for:

• Jasper Degraeuwe, PhD 2024, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
  • IVESS. Intelligent vocabulary and example selection for Spanish vocabulary learning
• Anaïs Tack, PhD 2021, UC Louvain, Belgium
  • Mark my words! On the automated prediction of lexical difficulty for foreign language readers
• Ildikó Pilán, PhD 2018, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • Automatic proficiency level prediction for Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning
• Lisa Beinborn, PhD 2016, TU Darmstadt, Germany.
  • Predicting and Manipulating the Difficulty of Text-Completion Exercises for Language Learning
• Ines Rehbein, PhD 2009, Dublin City University, Ireland.
  • Treebank-Based Grammar Acquisition for German
• Tonio Wandmacher, PhD 2008, Université François - Rabelais de Tours, France & University of Tübingen, Germany.
  • Adaptive Word Prediction and Its Application in an Assistive Communication System
• Thomas Koller, PhD 2007, Dublin City University, Ireland.
  • Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Plurilingual ICALL System for Romance Languages Aimed at Advanced Learners
• Tavs Bjerre, PhD 2003, Syddansk Universitet, Kolding, Denmark.
  • Syntactically and Semantically Complex Predicates

  

MA advisor of:

• Dominik Glandorf, 2024,
  • Controlling Grammar in Dialogue Response Generation for Language Learning.
• Nino Meisinger, 2024,
  • ART – an Adaptive Reading Tool employing NLP and large language models to support language learners.
• Ting Liu-Yu, 2024,
  • Generating automatic C-Tests supporting proficiency assessment and adaptive exercises for second language learners in Mandarin Chinese.
• Raffael Veser, 2023,.
  • Domain-Adaption of Word Vectors for Automatic Concept Map and Exercise Generation.
• Mohamed Ouji, 2023,.
  • Demand driven characterization of multi-step dialogue in a human resources context.
• Luisa Flucht-Ribeiro, 2023,.
  • Assessment of Text Readability and Learner Proficiency with Linguistic Complexity: The Case of Portuguese.
• Mariia Soliar, 2023, (exceptionally listed Bachelor of Arts Thesis)
  • Analyzing Authentic School Use of an Intelligent Language Tutoring System for System Enhancement.
• [list currently incomplete here]
• Vivian Fresen, 2019 (as second advisor; first advisor: Sonja Utz)
  • Automatic classification of different dimensions of informa- tional support in work-related forums: A machine learning approach using NLP features
• Arseniy Mstislavskiy, 2019
  • The Ostrog Bible as an Old Church Slavonic Corpus Resource
• Rebecca Long, 2019 (as second advisor; first advisor: Harald Baayen=
  • Enhancing the TASA Corpus for Analysis Using Naive Discriminative Learning
• Sarah Schneider, 2018
  • Automatic Question Generation to Support Coherent Writing
• Sabrina Galasso, 2018
  • Automated C-Test Difficulty Prediction: Integrating Lexical, Sentence, and Text Features in a Multi-Lingual Perspective
• Alla Münch, 2018
  • Socio-Cultural Differences in the Rhetorical Structure of Scientific Abstracts
• Eduard Schaf, 2018
  • Automatic Visual Input Enhancement for Russian with Intelligent Feedback
• Kathrin Adlung, 2018
  • Integrating Corpus Data and Scaffolding Feedback into an English Vocabulary Learning App
• Kevin Mann, 2018
  • An Adaptive Study Feature on Authentic English Texts for VIEW
• Aleksandar Dimitrov, 2018
  • VIEW 2.0: An Extensible Platform for Web Based Interactive Language Learning and Research
• Ben Campbell, 2017
  • An Analysis of Inconsistencies and Annotation Errors in Dependency Treebanks for English, German and Finnish
• Yevgen Karpenko, 2017
  • Extending a Personal Assistant System to Support Complex Contextual Interaction
• Daniela Stier, 2017
  • Natural Language Characteristics for On-Board Applications -- From Shallow Analysis to Deeper Characterization of Variability
• David Bausch, 2017 (as second advisor, first advisor: Kurt Eberle)
  • Non-Monotonic Part-of-Speech Tagging in Iterative Natural Language Processing
• Anastasiia Didkovska, 2017
  • Identifying the Impact of the Native Language on Linguistic Complexity in English Second Acquisition: A computational linguistic analysis of a large-scale educational resource
• Zarah Weiß, 2017
  • Using Measures of Linguistic Complexity to Assess German L2 Proficiency in Learner Corpora under Consideration of Task-Effects
• Anastasia Gorbunova, 2017 (as second advisor, first advisor: Çağrı Çöltekin)
  • Predicting depression from online communi- cation: comparison of three classification techniques
• Alina Ladygina, 2017
  • Native language identification for Russian using referential features
• Cornelius Fath, 2017
  • Information Source Detection for Automatic Short Answer Scoring
• Stanislav Reichert, 2017 (as second advisor)
  • Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Classical Japanese: How can CALL support and learn from classical languages?
• Anna-Lena Kast, 2017 (as second advisor, first advisor: Ingo Hertrich)
  • Verfällt die deutsche Sprache? Sprachwandel im Deutschen, der Einfluss des Englischen und die Entwicklung des Stellenwerts der deutschen Sprache in den vergangen Jahren
• Björn Rudzewitz, 2016
  • An Integrated Approach to Answer Selection in Question Answering: Exploring Multiple Information Sources and Domain Adaptation
• Spyridoula Georgatou, 2016
  • Approaching readability features in Greek school books
• Maryam Geranmayeh, 2016 (as second advisor; first advisor Ingo Hertrich)
  • Connecting the Intelligibility of Speech to Linguistic and Cognitive Measures of Complexity: Perception of Accelerated Synthetic Speech
• Tobias Kolditz, 2015
  • Generating Questions for German Text
• Lilyana Nikolova, 2015
  • Readability Classification for Bulgarian
• Maria Chinkina, 2015
  • Form-focused Language-aware Information Retrieval
• Yulia Svetashova, 2015
  • C-Test Item Difficulty Prediction: Exploring the Linguistic Characteristics of C-Tests Using Machine Learning
• Stefanie Wolf, 2015
  • The influence of syntactic categories on distributional similarity: Experiments on generating distractors for second language learning
• Ulla König-Cardanobile, 2015
  • Corpus Analysis of Child-Directed Speech
• Willy Cheung, 2014
  • Improving Alignment-Based Content Assessment: Contextualizing Alignments Using Transformation-Based Error-Driven Learning
• Vladlena Serveeva, 2014
  • Conceptualizing Anthropomorphic In-vehicle Speech Dialog Systems: Effects of Prompt Language and Persona Traits on User Satisfaction
• Andreas Rudin, 2014
  • A Parallel Suffix Array Approach to Statistical Spell, Grammar and Style Checking
• Janina Simone (née Kopp), 2013
  • On Characterizing German Interlanguage Part-of-Speech Classes: Multilevel Categories as Bridge between Empirical Observations and Linguistic Generalizations
• Sarah Schulz, 2013
  • On Tokenization Automatic extraction of semantic multiword units for meaning-based tasks
• Julia Hancke, 2013
  • Automatic Prediction of CEFR Proficiency Levels Based on Linguistic Features of Learner Language
• Danilo Schäfer, 2012
  • Faktoren beim Erwerb der Aussprache einer Fremdsprache: linguistische, biologische, psychologische und soziologische Aspekte - Versuch eines exemplarischen disziplinübergreifenden Überblicks
• Laura Kassner, 2012
  • Harvesting paraphrases from recurring sequences in aligned bilingual corpora - From data-induced units to linguistically interpretable categories
• Julia Krivanek, 2012
  • Investigating Syntactic Alternations as Characteristic Features of Learner Language
• Ekaterina P. Volkova, 2011
  • PETaLS: Perception of Emotions in Text — a Linguistic Simulation
• Desislava Zhekova, 2010
  • Automatic extraction of examples for Word Sense Disambiguation
• Niels Ott, 2009
  • Information Retrieval for Language Learning - An Exploration of Text Difficulty Measures
• Ramon Ziai, 2009
  • A Flexible Annotation-Based Architecture for Intelligent Language Tutoring Systems