Publikationen

Netzwerkbezogene Publikationen der Mitglieder seit 2014.

2017

  • Alexopoulou, Theodora and Marije Michel and Akira Murakami and Detmar Meurers: Task effects on linguistic complexity and accuracy: a large-scale learner corpus analysis employing Natural Language Processing techniques. Language Learning. 67 (S1). 181-209. 2017.
  • Bryant, Doreen and Karin Berendes, Detmar Meurers and Zarah Weiß: Schulbuchtexte der Sekundarstufe auf dem linguistischen Prüfstand. Analyse der bildungs- und fachsprachlichen Komplexität in Abhängigkeit von Schultyp und Jahrgangsstufe, In: Linguistische Komplexität – ein Phantom?, Mathilde Hennig (ed.), Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
  • Chen, Xiaobin and Detmar Meurers: Challenging Learners in Their Individual Zone of Proximal Development Using Pedagogic Developmental Benchmarks of Syntactic Complexity. Proceedings of the Joint 6th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning and 2nd Workshop on NLP for Research on Language Acquisition at NoDaLiDa 2017. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 134: 8–17.
  • Chinkina, Maria and Detmar Meurers: Question Generation for Language Learning: From ensuring texts are read to supporting learning. Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA). Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Hamed, O., & Zesch, T. (2017). A Survey and Comparative Study of Arabic Diacritization Tools. Journal for Language Technology and Language Technology, 32(1), 27–48.
  • Hamed, O., & Zesch, T. (2017). The Role of Diacritics in Designing Lexical Recognition Tests for Arabic. Procedia Computer Science, 117, 119–128.
  • Horbach, A., Ding, Y., & Zesch, T. (2017). The Influence of Spelling Errors on Content Scoring Performance. In Proceedings of 4th Workshop on NLP Techniques for Educational Applications (NLPTEA 2017) at IJCNLP.
  • Horbach, A., Scholten-Akoun, D., Ding, Y., & Zesch, T. (2017). Fine-grained essay scoring of a complex writing task for native speakers. In Proceedings of the Building Educational Applications Workshop at EMNLP (p. to appear). Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Meurers, Detmar and Markus Dickinson: Evidence and Interpretation in Language Learning Research: Opportunities for Collaboration with Computational Linguistics. Language Learning 67 (S1). 67-96. 2017.
  • Rebuschat, Patrick, Detmar Meurers and Tony McEnery: Language learning research at the intersection of experimental, corpus-based and computational methods (Introduction to the Special Issue)Language Learning 67 (S1). 7-14. 2017.
  • Riordan, B., Horbach, A., Cahill, A., Zesch, T., & Lee, C. M. (2017). Investigating neural architectures for short answer scoring. In Proceedings of the Building Educational Applications Workshop at EMNLP (p. to appear). Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Rudzewitz, Björn and Ramon Ziai, Kordula De Kuthy and Detmar Meurers: Developing A Web-based Workbook for English Supporting the Interaction of Students and Teachers Proceedings of the Joint 6th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning and 2nd Workshop on NLP for Research on Language Acquisition at NoDaLiDa 2017. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 134: 36–46.
  • Trouvain, J., Zimmerer, F., Möbius, B., Gósy, M. & Bonneau, A. 2017. Guest editors of the Special Issue on "Segmental, prosodic and fluency features in phonetic learner corpora" of the International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 3(2).
  • Trouvain, J., Zimmerer, F., Möbius, B., Gósy, M. & Bonneau, A. 2017. Segmental, prosodic and fluency features in phonetic learner corpora — Introduction to the special issue. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 3(2), pp. 105-118.
  • Trouvain, J., & Zimmerer, F. 2017. Phonetische Lernerkorpora und ihr Nutzen im DaF-Bereich. Deutsch als Fremdsprache 53 (4), pp. 204-212.
  • Ziegler, Nicole and Detmar Meurers, Patrick Rebuschat, Simón Ruiz, José L. Moreno-Vega, Maria Chinkina, Wenjing Li and Sarah Grey: Interdisciplinary research at the intersection of CALL, NLP, and SLA: Methodological implications from an input enhancement project. Language Learning 67 (S1). 201-232. 2017.

2016

  • Beinborn, Lisa (2016) Predicting and Manipulating the Difficulty of Text-Completion Exercises for Language Learning, Dissertation, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2016.
  • Beinborn, Lisa; Zesch, Torsten (2016) Predicting the Spelling Difficulty of Words for Language LearnersProceedings of the Building Educational Applications Workshop at NAACL, ACL San Diego, USA, 2016.
  • Chen, Xiaobin and Detmar Meurers: CTAP: A Web-Based Tool Supporting Automatic Complexity Analysis Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity (CL4LC), COLING 2016, Osaka, Japan.
  • Chen, Xiaobin and Detmar Meurers: Characterizing Text Difficulty with Word Frequencies. Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA), San Diego, CA, USA. 84–94.
  • Chinkina, Maria and Madeeswaran Kannan, and Detmar Meurers: Online Information Retrieval for Language Learning In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics System Demonstrations, Berlin, Germany. 7-12.
  • Chinkina, Maria and Detmar Meurers: Linguistically Aware Information Retrieval: Providing Input Enrichment for Second Language Learners. Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA), San Diego, CA, USA. 188-198.
  • De Kuthy, Kordula and Ramon Ziai, and Detmar Meurers: Focus annotation of task-based data: a comparison of expert and crowd-sourced annotation in a reading comprehension corpus. In Proceedings of the 10th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Portorož, Slovenia. 3928--3935.
  • De Kuthy, Kordula and Ramon Ziai, and Detmar Meurers: Focus annotation of task-based data: Establishing the quality of crowd annotation. In Proceedings of the 10th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW), Berlin, Germany. 110-119.
  • Jügler, J., Zimmerer, F. Trouvain, J. & Möbius, B. 2016. The perceptual effect of L1 prosody transplantation on L2 speech: The case of French accented German. Proc. Interspeech, San Francisco, pp. 67-71.
  • Meyer, N., Wojatzki, M., & Zesch, T. (2016). Validating Bundled Gap Filling--Empirical Evidence for Ambiguity Reduction and Language Proficiency Testing Capabilities. In Proceedings of the joint workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning and NLP for Language Acquisition at SLTC, Ume{å}, 16th November 2016 (pp. 51–59).
  • Pilán, I., Volodina, E., & Zesch, T. (2016). Predicting proficiency levels in learner writings by transferring a linguistic complexity model from expert-written coursebooks. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers (pp. 2101–2111). Osaka, Japan.
  • Quixal, Martí and Detmar Meurers: How can writing tasks be characterized in a way serving pedagogical goals and automatic analysis needs? CALICO Journal 33 (1). 19-48.
  • Trouvain, J., Fauth, C. & Möbius, B. 2016. Breath and non-breath pauses in fluent and disfluent phases of German and French L1 and L2 read speech. Proc. Speech Prosody (SP8), Boston, pp. 31-35.
  • Trouvain, J., Bonneau, A., Colotte, V., Fauth, C., Fohr, D., Jouvet, D., Jügler, J., La prie, Y., Mella, O., Möbius, B. & Zimmerer, F. (2016). The IFCASL corpus of French and German non-native and native read speech. Proceedings 10th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Portorož, pp. 1333-1338.
  • Trouvain, J., Jügler, J. & Laprie; Y. (2016). On the assessment of computer-assisted pronunciation training tools. Proceedings 26. Konferenz Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (ESSV'16), Leipzig, pp. 175-182.
  • Vajjala, Sowmya and Detmar Meurers, Alexander Eitel and Katharina Scheiter: Towards grounding computational linguistic approaches to readability: Modeling reader-text interaction for easy and difficult texts Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity (CL4LC), COLING 2016, Osaka, Japan.
  • Wojatzki, Michael; Melamud, Oren; Zesch, Torsten (2016) Bundled Gap Filling: A New Paradigm for Unambiguous Cloze ExercisesProceedings of the Building Educational Applications Workshop at NAACL, ACL, San Diego, USA, 2016.
  • Zehner, F. (2016). Automatic processing of text responses in large-scale assessments. PhD Thesis.
  • Zehner, F., Sälzer, C. & Goldhammer, F. (2016). Automatic coding of short text responses via clustering in educational assessment. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 76(2), 280-303.
  • Ziai, Ramon and Kordula De Kuthy, and Detmar Meurers: Approximating Givenness in Content Assessment through Distributional Semantics. In Proceedings of the Fifth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Berlin, Germany. 209--218.

2015

  • Beinborn, L., Zesch, T. & Gurevych, I. (2015). Candidate evaluation strategies for improved difficulty prediction of language tests. In Proceedings of the Building Educational Applications Workshop at NAACL, 2015.
  • Carroll, P., Trouvain, J., & Zimmerer, F. 2015. A visual feedback tool for German vowel production. Proc. 26. Konferenz Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (ESSV '15), Eichstätt, pp. 150-157.
  • Hamed, Osama; Zesch, Torsten. 2015. Generating Nonwords for Vocabulary Proficiency Testing Proceeding of the 7th Language and Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, Poznań, Poland, 2015.
  • Jouvet, D., Bonneau, A., Trouvain, J., Zimmerer, F., Laprie, Y. & Möbius, B. (2015). Analysis of phone confusion matrices in a manually annotated French-German learner corpus. Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2015), Leipzig, pp. 107-112.
  • Mahlow, C. (2015). Learning from Errors. Systematic Analysis of Complex Writing Errors for Improving Writing Technology. In: Gala, N., Rapp, R., and Bel-Enguix, G. (Eds.): Language Production, Cognition, and the Lexicon, Volume 48 of Text, Speech and Language Technology, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 419-438. PDF (Autorversion, Springer-Version ist falsch gesetzt)
  • Vakil, A. & Trouvain, J. (2015). Automatic classification of lexical stress errors for German CAPT. Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2015), Leipzig, pp. 47-52.
  • Zehner, F., Goldhammer, F., & Sälzer, C. (2015). Using and improving coding guides for and by automatic coding of PISA short text responses. In Proceedings of the IEEE ICDM Workshop on Data Mining for Educational Assessment and Feedback (ASSESS 2015), Atlantic City.
  • Zesch, T., Heilman, M. & Cahill, A. (2015). Reducing Annotation Efforts in Supervised Short Answer Scoring. In Proceedings of the Building Educational Applications Workshop at NAACL, 2015.
  • Zesch, T., Wojatzki, M. & Scholten-Akoun, D. (2015). Task-Independent Features for Automated Essay Grading. In Proceedings of the Building Educational Applications Workshop at NAACL, 2015.
  • Zimmerer, F. & Trouvain, J. 2015. Productions of /h/ in German: French vs. German speakers. Proc. Interspeech, Dresden, pp. 1922-1926.
  • Zimmerer, F. & Trouvain, J. 2015. Perception of French speakers’ German vowels. Proc. Interspeech, Dresden, pp. 1720-1724.

2014

  • Beinborn, L., Zesch, T. & Gurevych, I. (2014). Determining the Difficulty of Language Proficiency Tests. In Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, (to appear).
  • Beinborn, L., Zesch, T. & Gurevych, I. (2014). Readability for foreign language learning: The importance of cognates. In International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Special issue on readability and text simplification, (to appear)
  • Boyd, A., Hana, J., Nicolas, L., Meurers, D., Wisniewski, K., Abel, A., Schöne, K., Štindlová, B., Vettori, C. The MERLIN corpus: Learner language and the CEFR. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2014). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). pp. 1281–1288.
  • Bykh, S. & Meurers, D.: Exploring Syntactic Features for Native Language Identification: A Variationist Perspective on FeatureEncoding and Ensemble Optimization. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Dublin, Ireland. pp. 1962–1973.
  • Fauth, C., Bonneau, A., Zimmerer, F., Trouvain, J., Andreeva, B., Colotte, V., Fohr, D., Jouvet, D., Jügler, J., Laprie, Y., Mella, O. & Möbius,B. (2014). Designing a bilingual speech corpus for French and German language learners: a two-step process. Proc. 9th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Reykjavik, pp. 1477-1482.
  • Hahn, M. & Meurers, D.. On deriving semantic representations from dependencies: A practical approach for evaluating meaning in learner corpora. Dependency Theory edited by Kim Gerdes, Eva Hajičová and Leo Wanner. Frontiers in AI and Applications Series. IOS Press, Amsterdam. pp. 62–77.
  • Krivanek, J. & Meurers, D.. Comparing Rule-Based and Data-Driven Dependency Parsing of Learner Language. Dependency Theory edited by Kim Gerdes, Eva Hajičová and Leo Wanner. Frontiers in AI and Applications Series. IOS Press, Amsterdam. pp.207–225
  • Mahlow, C. and Dale, R. (2014). Production Media: Writing as Using Tools in Media Convergent Environments. In: Perrin, D. and Jakobs, E.-M. (Eds.): Handbook of Writing and Text Production, Volume 10 of Handbooks of Applied Linguistics, DeGruyter Mouton, Berlin, pp. 209–230.
  • Mashkovskaya, A. (2014): Der C-Test als Lesetest bei Muttersprachlern. Diss. phil., Universität Duisburg-Essen, Fachbereich Geisteswissenschaften,
  • Meurers, D. (in press). Learner Corpora and Natural Language Processing. The Cambridge Handbook of Learner Corpus Research, edited by Sylviane Granger, Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Fanny Meunier. Cambridge University Press.
  • Meurers, D., Krivanek, J. & Serhiy Bykh: On the Automatic Analysis of Learner Corpora: Native Language Identification as Experimental Testbed of Language Modeling between Surface Features and Linguistic Abstraction. Diachrony and Synchrony in English Corpus Studies edited by Alexandro Alcaraz Sintes and Salvador Valera. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 285-314.
  • Pitton, Anja; Scholten-Akoun, Dirk (2014): Ein Beitrag zur Verbesserung der Vorbereitung auf Beruf und Studium ­ Sprachstandmessungen in der Sekundarstufe II und zielgenauere Förderung. In: Karsten Altenschmidt (Hrsg.): Forschen und Lehren mit der Zivilgesellschaft. Wiesbaden:
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  • Scholten-Akoun, D.; Mashkovskaya; Tischmeyer, D. (2014): Language competencies of future teachers ­ Design and results of an empirical study. In: Applied Linguistics Review, Vol. 5, Number 2, p. 401-124.
  • Tischmeyer, Daniel; Mashkovskaya, Anna; Scholten-Akoun, Dirk (2014): Sprachkompetenzen Studierender. Design und Ergebnisse einer empirischen Studie. In: Sarah Rühle, Annette Müller, Philip D. Th. Knoblich (Hrsg.) (2014): Mehrsprachigkeit ­ Diversität ­ Internationalität. Erziehungswissenschaft im transnationalen Bildungsraum. Münster: Waxmann, S. 125-157.
  • Vajjala, S. & Meurers, D. Readability Assessment for Text Simplification: From Analyzing Documents to Identifying Sentential Simplifications. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Special Issue on Current Research in Readability and Text Simplification edited by Thomas François and Delphine Bernhard.
  • Vajjala, S. & Meurers, D. Assessing the relative reading level of sentence pairs for text simplification. Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-14). Gothenburg, Sweden. pp. 288–297.
  • Vajjala, S. & Meurers, D. Exploring Measures of “Readability” for Spoken Language: Analyzing linguistic features of subtitles to identify age-specific TV programs. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations (PITR) held at EACL-14. Gothenburg, Sweden. pp. 21–29.
  • Zampieri, M., Tan, L. (2014) Grammatical Error Detection with Limited Training Data: The Case of Chinese. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computers in Education. Nara, Jap
  • Zesch, T., & Melamud, O. (2014). Automatic Generation of Challenging Distractors Using Context-Sensitive Inference Rules. In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications at ACL. Baltimore, USA.
  • Ziai, R. & Meurers, D. Focus Annotation in Reading Comprehension Data. Proceedings of the 8th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW VIII) held at COLING 2014. Dublin, Ireland. pp. 159–168.