Dr. Andrea Horbach

Andrea Horbach leads the junior research group EduNLP "Educational Natural Language Processing" at the Research Cluster D²L² „Digitalization, Diversity and Lifelong Learning – Consequences for Higher Education“ since December 2021.

Projects

• The Project “EduNLP” investigates how automatic scoring algorithms for educational free-text tasks such as essays or short-answer questions can be used to give feedback to both learners and teachers.
  Here you can get more information about the "EduNLP" Project

• The Project “KI-Starter - Explaining AI Predictions of Semantic Relationships” investigates how to use explanations on entailment relations between learner answers and sample solutions in a content scoring scenario to generate feedback for learners.
  Here you can get more information about the "Explaining AI" Project

Team Members

• Yuning Ding (Doctoral Researcher, “EduNLP”, start date: 01.01.2022)
• Viet Nguyen (student Assistant, “EduNLP” und "Explaining AI", start date: 01.02.2022)
• Finn Brodmann (student Assistant, EduNLP” und "Explaining AI", start date: 01.02.2022)
• Joey Pehlke (student Assistant, EduNLP” und "Explaining AI", start date: 01.02.2022)

Academic Positions

• Since 12/2021: Junior Research Group Leader, Research Cluster Digitalization, Diversity and Lifelong Learning (D²L²), FernUniversität in Hagen

• 10/2016 - 11/2021: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Language Technology Lab, University Duisburg-Essen

• 04/2010 – 09/2016: Research associate/ PhD student at the Department for Computational Linguistics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken

University Education

• 2018: PhD in Computational Linguistics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken

• 2008: Diplom in Computational Linguistics (equivalent to MSc), Saarland University, Saarbrücken

Research Interests

• Natural Language Processing for educational applications

• Automatic content and essay scoring

• Feedback and exercise generation

Services & Memberships

• Secretary of the Special Interest Group for Building Educational Applications (ACL-SIGEDU)

• Member of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL)

Selected Publications

Publication list on Google Scholar