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Manipulating the Difficulty of C-Tests

Published in Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the ACL, 2019

In this work, we propose two novel generation strategies for C-Tests, a type of gap filling exercises. In contrast to previous approaches, our strategies do not rely upon a static gap placement and size. This allows teachers to generate C-Tests of multiple difficulties from a single input text. In a user study, we show that both our proposed methods are capable successfully manipulating the C-Test difficulty.

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Empowering Active Learning to Jointly Optimize System and User Demands

Published in Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the ACL, 2020

In this work, we operationalize active learning for scenarios where the human oracle cannot be a mere labeler (such as language learning). We devise sampling strategies that aim to select instances that benefit both, model and user, and show that this leads to an improved model training over existing active learning strategies and at the same time, results in exercises that suit a learner well.

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Annotation Curricula to Implicitly Train Non-Expert Annotators

Published in Computational Linguistics, 2022

In this work, we propose to re-order instances during annotation according to their difficulty. In experiments with simulated and real-world users, we show that such annotation curricula can significantly reduce the annotation time.

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Efficient Methods for Natural Language Processing: A Survey

Published in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023

This work provides a comprehensive survey on methods that improve efficiency in NLP.

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Talk 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

Published: March 01, 2012

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Tutorial 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

Published: March 01, 2013

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Talk 2 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

Published: February 01, 2014

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Conference Proceeding talk 3 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

Published: March 01, 2014

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Text Analytics

Seminar, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Department of Computer Science, 2018

Text analytics course on active learning for undergraduate and graduate students

Bachelorpraktikum

Software Project, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Department of Computer Science, 2019

Project coordinator of 50+ software projects for undergrads

Bachelorpraktikum

Software Project, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Department of Computer Science, 2020

Project coordinator of 50+ software projects for undergrads

Guest Lecture on Ethics in NLP

Guest Lecture, University of Saarland, Department of Language, Science and Technology, 2024

A guest lecture on ethics in NLP at the course computational linguistics.