Head of Language and AI in Education Lab

Detmar Meurers is heading the Language and AI in Education lab at the IWM since 2024. He joined the Eberhardt Karls University of Tübingen in 2008 as Professor of Computational Linguistics. His research at the interface of computational linguistics and empirical educational research addresses both second and academic language acquisition as well as the use of language in subject-specific learning: from the analysis of linguistic complexity, the annotation and interpretation of learner corpora, and the evaluation of answers to reading comprehension tasks to the support of learning processes through intelligent tutoring systems or adaptive search engines. The systematic use and evaluation of the developed tools in real-life education through randomized, controlled field studies and learning analytics provides access to ecologically valid learning process and product data for basic research as well as for the development of effective digital tools that address real desiderata of educational practice.

Detmar Meurers studied linguistics, computer science and psychology at the University of Tübingen, where he received his doctorate in computational linguistics in 1999. From 2001, he worked at the Department of Linguistics at The Ohio State University, where as Assistant Professor and, from 2005, Associate Professor he co-developed the computational linguistics track of the Phd program and developed the first educational applications in addition to basic research on grammatical formalisms and theoretical linguistics. In 2008, he was appointed to the Chair of Theoretical Computational Linguistics in Tübingen.