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.
Leifheit, L., Löfflad, D., Belschner, S., Beuttler, B., Winkelmann, J., Meurers, D., & Holz, H. (2024). KI im Unterricht – Entwicklung von Lehrveranstaltungen für Lehramtsstudierende der Sprach- und MINT-Fächer. Ludwigsburger Beiträge zur Medienpädagogik, 24.
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Riemenschneider, A., Weiss, Z., Schröter, P., & Meurers, D. (2024). The interplay of task characteristics, linguistic complexity, and language proficiency in high-stakes English as a foreign language writing. tesol QUARTERLY, 58, 775-801. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3254
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Holz, H., Ninaus, M., Schwerter, J., Parrisius, C., Beuttler, B., Brandelik, K., & Meurers, D. (2023). A digital game-based training improves spelling in German primary school children – A randomized controlled field trial. Learning and Instruction, 87, Article 101771. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2023.101771
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Akef, S., Mendes, A., Meurers, D., & Rebuschat, P. (2024). Investigating the generalizability of Portuguese readability assessment models trained using linguistic complexity features. In P. Gamallo, D. Claro, A. Teixeira, L. Real, M. Garcia, H. Gonçalo Oliveira, R. Amaro (Ed.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (1, pp. 332-341). Association for Computational Lingustics. https://aclanthology.org/2024.propor-1.34.pdf
Colling, L., Kholin, M., & Meurers, D. (2024). A learning analytics dashboard for K-12 English teachers - Bridging the gap between student process data and teacher needs. Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (Adjunct Proceedings (UMAP Adjunct '24), pp. 538-548). Association for Computing Machinery. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3631700.3665228
Colling, L., Pieronczyk, I., Parrisius, C., Holz, H., Bodnar, S., Nuxoll, F., & Meurers, D. (2024). Towards task-oriented ICALL: A criterion-referenced learner dashboard organising digital practice. In O. Poquet, A. Ortega-Arranz, O. Viberg, I.-A. Chounta, B. McLaren, & J. Jovanovic (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU) (1: EKM, pp. 668-679). https://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0012753000003693
Glandorf, D., & Meurers, D. (2024). Towards fine-grained pedagogical control over english grammar complexity in educational text generation. In E. Kochmar, M. Bexte, J. Burstein, A. Horbach, R. Laarmann-Quante, A. Tack, V. Yaneva, & Z. Yuan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2024) (pp. 299-308). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2024.bea-1.24
Ribeiro-Flucht, L., Chen, X., & Meurers, D. (2024). Explainable AI in language learning: Linking empirical evidence and theoretical concepts in proficiency and readability modeling of Portuguese. In E. Kochmar, M. Bexte, J. Burstein, A. Horbach, R. Laarmann-Quante, A. Tack, V. Yaneva, & Z. Yuan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2024) (19, pp. 199-209). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2024.bea-1.17.pdf
Heck, T., & Meurers, D. (2023). Using learning analytics for adaptive exercise generation. In E. Kochmar, J. Burstein, A. Horbach, R. Laarmann-Quante, N. Madnani, A. Tack, V. Yaneva, Z. Yuan, & T. Zesch (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th workshop on innovative use of NLP for building educational applications (BEA 2023) (pp. 44-56). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.bea-1.4
Winkelmann, J., Leifheit, L., Belschner, S., Holz, H., Beuttler, B., Löfflad, D., & Meurers, D. (in press). Künstliche Intelligenz im MINT-Unterricht – Entwicklung einer Lehrveranstaltung für Lehramtsstudierende. Kompetenzen für den naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht mit und über Künstliche Intelligenz Waxmann.
Fütterer, T., Gerjets, P., Cress, U., Lachner, A., Meurers, D., Köller, O., Fischer, F., Scheiter, K., Nuxoll, F., Bronner, P., Blume, B., & Trautwein, U. (2024). Wissenschaftler zu Kritik an Digitalem: „Wir sollten uns nicht beirren lassen“. Sonderheft des Verband Bildung und Erziehung (VBE), 5-8.
Luther, T., Kimmerle, J., Meurers, D., & Cress, U. (2024, April 11). Collaborative writing with ChatGPT - an exploratory study. Closing Conference of the Human-Agent Interaction Network: Interactions With Language-Based AI. Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen. https://www.iwm-tuebingen.de/www/en/forschung/forschungsbereiche/MAI_Event/index.html [Poster]
Prof. Dr. Walt Detmar Meurers
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