Graduate Advising

Current PhD advisees:

• Adriane Boyd
  • Automatic Diagnosis of Written Errors for Beginning Learners of German
• Hagen Hirschmann
  • Modification in the acquisition of German as a Foreign Language
  (external advisor, internal advisor: Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
• Niels Ott
  • Automatically evaluating the meaning of answers to questions:
    Exploring tasks and texts in reading comprehension
• Martí Quixal
  • Application-driven Natural Language Processing.
    Shaping NLP to the needs of Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
  (cotutelle with Toni Badia, UPF)
• Sowmya V.B.
  • Information Retrieval for Language Teaching and Learning (working title)
• Sabrina Wilske
  • Form and meaning in dialogue-based computer-assisted language learning
  (external advisor, internal advisor: Manfred Pinkal, Univ. des Saarlandes)
• Ramon Ziai
  • Advancing Content Assessment in Context: The Role of Answer Typing

  

Graduated PhD advisees:

• 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 Asst. Professor, University of Massachussetts Amherst
• Xiaofei Lu, PhD 2006, The Ohio State University.
  • Hybrid Models for Chinese Unknown Word Resolution
  • → now Asst. Professor, Penn State University
• Markus Dickinson, PhD 2005, The Ohio State University.
  • Error detection and correction in annotated corpora
  • → now Asst. 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:

• Ines Rehbein, PhD 2009, Dublin City University.
  • Treebank-Based Grammar Acquisition for German
• Tonio Wandmacher, PhD 2008, Université François - Rabelais de Tours and University of Tübingen.
  • Adaptive Word Prediction and Its Application in an Assistive Communication System
• Thomas Koller, PhD 2007, Dublin City University.
  • 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