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.
Bear, E., Chen, X., Verratti Suoto, D., Ribeiro-Flucht, L., Rudzewitz, B., & Meurers, D. (2024). Designing a task-based conversational agent for EFL in German schools: Student needs, actions, and perceptions. System, 126, 103460. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2024.103460
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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. https://dx.doi.org/doi.org/10.21240/lbzm/24/08
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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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Hui, B., Rudzewitz, B., & Meurers, D. (2023). Learning processes in interactive CALL systems: Linking automatic feedback, system logs, and learning outcomes. Language Learning & Technology, 27, 1-23. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/73527
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Chen, X., Meurers, D., & Rebuschat, P. (2022). ICALL offering individually adaptive input: Effects of complex input on L2 development. Language Learning & Technology, 26, 1-21. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/73496
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De Kuthy, K., Kannan, M., Santhi Ponnusamy, H., & Meurers, D. (2022). Exploring neural question generation for formal pragmatics: Data set and model evaluation. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 5. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frai.2022.966013
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Weiss, Z., Lange-Schubert, K., Geist, B., & Meurers, D. (2022). Sprachliche Komplexität im Unterricht. Eine computerlinguistische Analyse der gesprochenen Sprache von Lehrenden und Lernenden im naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht in der Primar- und Sekundarstufe. Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik, 50, 159-201. https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zgl-2022-2052
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Andreeßen, L. M., Gerjets, P., Meurers, D., & Zander, T. O. (2021). Toward neuroadaptive support technologies for improving digital reading: a passive BCI-based assessment of mental workload imposed by text difficulty and presentation speed during reading. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 31(1), 75-104. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-020-09273-5
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Holz, H., & Meurers, D. (2021). Interaction styles in context: Comparing drag-and-drop, point-and-touch, and touch in a mobile spelling game. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 37(9), 835-850. https://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2020.1848160
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Riemenschneider, A., Weiss, Z., Schröter, P., & Meurers, D. (2021). Linguistic complexity in teachers' assessment of German essays in high stakes testing. Assessing Writing, 50, Article 100561. https://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asw.2021.100561
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Chinkina, M., Ruiz, S., & Meurers, D. (2020). Crowdsourcing evaluation of the quality of automatically generated questions for supporting computer-assisted language teaching. ReCALL, 32(2), 145-161. https://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/S0958344019000193
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Daroczy, G., Meurers, D., Heller, J., Wolska, M., & Nürk, H.-C. (2020). The interaction of linguistic and arithmetic factors affects adult performance on arithmetic word problems. Cognitive Processing, 21(1), 105-125. https://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-019-00948-5
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Weiss, Z., & Meurers, D. (2020). Analyzing the linguistic complexity of German learner language in a reading comprehension task: Using proficiency classification to investigate short answer data, cross-data generalizability, and the impact of linguistic analysis quality. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, 7, 83-130. https://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.20006.wei
Chen, X., & Meurers, D. (2019). Linking text readability and learner proficiency using linguistic complexity feature vector distance. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 32, 418-447. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09588221.2018.1527358
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Kühberger, C., Bramann, C., Weiss, Z., & Meurers, D. (2019). Task complexity in history textbooks: A multidisciplinary case study on triangulation in history education research. History Education International Research Journal, 16, 139-157. https://dx.doi.org/10.18546/HERJ.16.1.12
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Meurers, D., De Kuthy, K., Nuxoll, F., Rudzewitz, B., & Ziai, R. (2019). Scaling up intervention studies to investigate real-life foreign language learning in school. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 39, 161-188. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0267190519000126
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Michel, M., Murakami, A., Alexopoulou, D., & Meurers, D. (2019). Effects of task type on morphosyntactic complexity across proficiency. Instructed Second Language Acquisition, 3, 124-152. https://dx.doi.org/10.1558/isla.38248
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Ruiz, S., Chen, X., Rebuschat, P., & Meurers, D. (2019). Measuring individual differences in cognitive abilities in the lab and on the web. PLOS ONE, 14, e0226217. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226217
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Ruiz, S., Rebuschat, P., & Meurers, D. (2019). The effects of working memory and declarative memory on instructed second language vocabulary learning: Insights from intelligent CALL. Language Teaching Research, 25, 510-539. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362168819872859
Berendes, K., Wagner, W., Meurers, D., & Trautwein, U. (2018). When a silent reading fluency test measures more than reading fluency: Academic language features predict the test performance of students with a non-German home language. Reading and Writing, 32, 561-583. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11145-018-9878-x
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Meurers, D., De Kuthy, K., Möller, V., Nuxoll, F., Rudzewitz, B., & Ziai, R. (2018). Digitale Differenzierung benötigt Informationen zu Sprache, Aufgabe und Lerner. Zur Generierung von individuellem Feedback in einem interaktiven Arbeitsheft. FLuL - Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen, 47, 64-82. https://sifnos.iwm-tuebingen.de/dm/papers/Meurers.DeKuthy.ea-18.pdf
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Berendes, K., Vajjala, S., Meurers, D., Bryant, D., Wagner, W., Chinkina, M., & Trautwein, U. (2017). Reading demands in secondary school: Does the linguistic complexity of textbooks increase with grade level and the academic orientation of the school track? Journal of Educational Psychology, 110, 518-543. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/edu0000225
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Chen, X., & Meurers, D. (2017). Word frequency and readability: Predicting the text‐level readability with a lexical‐level attribute. Journal of Research in Reading, 41, 486-510. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9817.12121
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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 (Eds.), 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
Heck, T., & Meurers, D. (2024). Exercise parameters influencing exercise difficulty. CALL for all Languages - EUROCALL 2023 Short Papers (pp. 236-241). https://dx.doi.org/10.4995/EuroCALL2023.2023.16921
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
Colling, L., Heck, T., & Meurers, D. (2023). Reconciling adaptivity and task orientation in the student dashboard of an intelligent language tutoring system. 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. 288-299). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.bea-1.25
Deininger, H., Lavelle-Hill, R., Parrisius, C., Pieronczyk, I., Colling, L., Meurers, D., Trautwein, U., Nagengast, B., & Kasneci, G. (2023). Can you solve this on the first try? – Understanding exercise field performance in an intelligent tutoring system. In N. Wang, G. Rebolledo-Mendez, N. Matsudasuda, O. C. Santos, & V. Dimitrova (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in education (pp. 565-576). Springer Cham. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36272-9_46
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
Heck, T., & Meurers, D. (2023). Exercise generation supporting adaptivity in intelligent tutoring systems. In N. Wang, G. Rebolledo-Mendez, V. Dimitrova, N. Matsuda, & O. C. Santos (Eds.), Artificial intelligence in education. Posters and late breaking results, workshops and tutorials, industry and innovation tracks, practitioners, doctoral consortium and blue sky (pp. 659-665). Springer. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36336-8_102
Heck, T., & Meurers, D. (2023). On the relevance and learner dependence of co-text complexity for exercise difficulty. In D. Alfter, E. Volodina, T. François, A. Jönsson, & E. Rennes (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning (53, pp. 71-84). LiU Electronic Press. https://aclanthology.org/2023.nlp4call-1.9.pdf
Chen, X., Bear, E., Hui, B., Santhi Ponnusamy, H., & Meurers, D. (2022). Education theories and AI affordances: Design and implementation of an intelligent computer assisted language learning system. In M. M. Rodrigo, N. Matsuda, A. I. Criste, & V. Dimitrova (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in education. Posters and late breaking results, workshops and tutorials, industry and innovation tracks, practitioners’ and doctoral consortium (13356, pp. 582-585). Springer. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11647-6_120
Heck, T., & Meurers, D. (2022). Parametrizable exercise generation from authentic texts: Effectively targeting the language means on the curriculum. In E. Kochmar, J. Burstein, A. Horbach, R. Laarmann-Quante, N. Madnani, A. Tack, V. Yaneva, Z. Yuan, & T. Zesch (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) (pp. 154-166). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.20
Weiss, Z., & Meurers, D. (2022). Assessing sentence readability for German language learners with broad linguistic modeling or readability formulas: When do linguistic insights make a difference? In E. Kochmar, J. Burstein, A. Horbach, R. Laarmann-Quante, N. Madnani, A. Tack, V. Yaneva, Z. Yuan, & T. Zesch (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) (pp. 141-153). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.19.pdf
Chatzipanagiotidis, S., Giagkou, M., & Meurers, D. (2021). Broad linguistic complexity analysis for Greek readability classification. In J. Burstein, A. Horbach, E. Kochmar, R. Laarmann-Quante, C. Leacock, N. Madnani, I. Pilán, H. Yannakoudakis, & T. Zesch (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th workshop on innovative use of NLP for building educational applications (pp. 45-58). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2021.bea-1.5.pdf
Dawidowsky, K., Holz, H., Schwerter, J., Pieronczyk, I., & Meurers, D. (2021). Development and evaluation of a tablet-based reading fluency test for primary school children. MobileHCI '21: Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on mobile human-computer interaction (pp. 1-17). Association for Computing Machinery. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3447526.3472033
De Kuthy, K., Kannan, M., Santhi Ponnusamy, H., & Meurers, D. (2021). Advancing neural question generation for formal pragmatics: Learning when to generate and when to copy. In K. De Kuthy & D. Meurers (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1st workshop on integrating perspectives on discourse annotation (1, pp. 31-40). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2021.discann-1.6.pdf
Kannan, M., Santhi Ponnusamy, H., De Kuthy, K., Stein, L., & Meurers, D. (2021). Exploring input representation granularity for generating questions satisfying question-answer congruence. In A. Belz, A. Fan, E. Reiter, & Y. Sripada (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th international conference on natural language generation (pp. 24-34). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.3
Quixal, M., Rudzewitz, B., Bear, E., & Meurers, D. (2021). Automatic annotation of curricular language targets to enrich activity models and support both pedagogy and adaptive systems. In D. Alfter, E. Volodina, I. Pilan, J. Graën, & L. Borin (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th workshop on NLP for computer assisted language learning (pp. 15-27). LiU Electronic Press. https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4call-1.2.pdf
Santhi Ponnusamy, H., & Meurers, D. (2021). Employing distributional semantics to organize task-focused vocabulary learning. In J. Burstein, A. Horbach, E. Kochmar, R. Laarmann-Quante, C. Leacock, N. Madnani, I. Pilán, H. Yannakoudakis, & T. Zesch (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th workshop on innovative use of NLP for building educational applications (pp. 26-36). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2021.bea-1.3.pdf
Weiss, Z., Chen, X., & Meurers, D. (2021). Using broad linguistic complexity modeling for crosslingual readability assessment. In D. Alfter, E. Volodina, I. Pilan, J. Graën, & L. Borin (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th workshop on NLP for computer assisted language learning (pp. 38-54). LiU Electronic Press. https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4call-1.4.pdf
De Kuthy, K., Kannan, M., Santhi Ponnusamy, H., & Meurers, D. (2020). Towards automatically generating questions under discussion to link information and discourse structure. In D. Scott, N. Bel, & C. Zong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th international conference on computational linguistics (pp. 5786-5798). International Committee on Computational Linguistics. https://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.509
Dittrich, S., Weiss, Z., Schröter, H., & Meurers, D. (2019). Integrating large-scale web data and curated corpus data in a search engine supporting German literacy education. In D. Alfter, E. Volodina, L. Borin, I. Pilan, & H. Lange (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning (39, pp. 41-56). LiU Electronic Press. https://aclanthology.org/volumes/W19-63/
Rudzewitz, B., Ziai, R., Nuxoll, F., De Kuthy, K., & Meurers, D. (2019). Enhancing a web-based language tutoring system with learning analytics. In L. Paquette & C. Romero (Eds.), Joint Proceedings of the Workshops of the 12th International Conference on Educational Data Mining co-located with the 12th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) (2592, pp. 1-7). https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2592/paper1.pdf
Weiss, Z., & Meurers, D. (2019). Analyzing linguistic complexity and accuracy in academic language development of German across elementary and secondary school. In H. Yannakoudakis, E. Kochmar, C. Leacock, N. Madnani, I. Pilán, & T. Zesch (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (pp. 380-393). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-4440
Weiss, Z., Riemenschneider, A., Schröter, P., & Meurers, D. (2019). Computationally modeling the impact of task-appropriate language complexity and accuracy on human grading of German essays. In H. Yannakoudakis, E. Kochmar, C. Leacock, N. Madnani, I. Pilán, & T. Zesch (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (pp. 30-45). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-4404
Ziai, R., Nuxoll, F., De Kuthy, K., Rudzewitz, B., & Meurers, D. (2019). The impact of spelling correction and task context on short answer assessment for intelligent tutoring systems. In D. Alfter, E. Volodina, L. Borin, I. Pilan, & H. Lange (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning (39, pp. 93-99). LiU Electronic Press. https://aclanthology.org/W19-6310.pdf
Chinkina, M., Oswal, A., & Meurers, D. (2018). Automatic input enrichment for selecting reading material: An online study with English teachers. In J. Tetreault, J. Burstein, E. Kochmar, C. Leacock, & H. Yannakoudakis (Eds.), Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (pp. 35-44). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/W18-0504
Holz, H., Meurers, D., Ninaus, M., & Kirsch, A. (2018). Validity and Player Experience of a Mobile Game for German Dyslexic. CHI PLAY ’18 Extended Abstracts (pp. 469-478). New York, NY, USA: ACM Press. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3270316.3271523
Holz, H., Weiss, Z., Brehm, O., & Meurers, D. (2018). COAST - Customizable online syllable enhancement in texts. A flexible framework for automatically enhancing reading materials. In J. Tetreault, J. Burstein, E. Kochmar, C. Leacock, & H. Yannakoudakis (Eds.), Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (pp. 89-100). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/W18-0509
Rudzewitz, B., Ziai, R., De Kuthy, K., Möller, V., Nuxoll, F., & Meurers, D. (2018). Generating feedback for English foreign language exercises. In J. Tetreault, J. Burstein, E. Kochmar, C. Leacock, & H. Yannakoudakis (Eds.), Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (pp. 127-136). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/W18-0513
Weiss, Z., Dittrich, S., & Meurers, D. (2018). A linguistically-informed search engine to identifiy reading material for functional illiteracy classes. In I. Pilán, E. Volodina, D. Alfter, & L. Borin (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning (pp. 79-90). LiU Electronic Press. https://aclanthology.org/W18-7109
Weiss, Z., & Meurers, D. (2018). Modeling the readability of German targeting adults and children: An empirically broad analysis and its cross-corpus validation. In E. M. Bender, L. Derczynski, & P. Isabelle (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (pp. 303-317). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/C18-1026/
Ziai, R., & Meurers, D. (2018). Automatic focus annotation: Bringing formal pragmatics alive in analyzing the information structure of authentic data. In M. Walker, H. Ji, & A. Stent (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, volume 1 (long papers) (1, pp. 117-128). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/N18-1011
Ziai, R., Rudzewitz, B., De Kuthy, K., Nuxoll, F., & Meurers, D. (2018). Feedback strategies for form and meaning in a real-life language tutoring system. In I. Pilán, E. Volodina, D. Alfter, & L. Borin (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning (pp. 91-98). LiU Electronic Press. https://aclanthology.org/W18-7110/
L. Glass, M. Dickinson, C. Brew, & D. Meurers (Eds.). (2024). Language and computers. Textbooks in Language Sciences. Language Science Press. https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12730906
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.
Ruiz, S., Rebuschat, P., & Meurers, D. (2023). Supporting individualized practice through intelligent CALL. In Y. Suzuki (Ed.), Practice and automatization in second language research (1st, pp. 119-143). Taylor & Francis Group. https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003414643-7
Weiss, Z., Woerfel, T., & Meurers, D. (2023). Intelligente digitale Werkzeuge in der sprachlichen Bildung. In M. Becker-Mrotzek, I. Gogolin, H.-J. Roth, & P. Stanat (Eds.), Grundlagen der sprachlichen Bildung (10, p. 185–197). Waxmann. https://dx.doi.org/10.25656/01:28183
Alexopoulou, T., Meurers, D., & Murakami, A. (2022). Big data in SLA: Advances in methodology and analysis. In N. Ziegler & M. González-Lloret (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Technology (1st). Routledge. https://sifnos.iwm-tuebingen.de/dm/papers/Alexopoulou.Murakami.Meurers-22.pdf
Meurers, D. (2020). Natural language processing and language learning. In C. A. Chapelle (Ed.), The concise encyclopedia of applied linguistics (pp. 817-831). Wiley-Blackwell. https://sifnos.iwm-tuebingen.de/dm/papers/Meurers-19.pdf
Meurers, D., De Kuthy, K., Nuxoll, F., Rudzewitz, B., & Ziai, R. (2019). KI zur Lösung realer Schulherausforderungen: Interaktive und adaptive Materialien im Fach Englisch. Schulmanagement-Handbuch (1/2019, pp. 65-84). Cornelsen. https://sifnos.iwm-tuebingen.de/dm/papers/Meurers.DeKuthy.ea-19ki.pdf
Weiss, Z., & Meurers, D. (2019). Broad linguistic modeling is beneficial for German L2 proficiency assessment. In A. Abel, A. Glaznieks, V. Lyding, & L. Nicolas (Eds.), Widening the scope of learner corpus research. Selected papers from the Fourth Learner Corpus Research Conference. (1, pp. 419-435). Presses universitaires de Louvain. https://sifnos.iwm-tuebingen.de/dm/papers/Weiss.Meurers-19LCR.pdf
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.
De Kuthy, K., & Meurers, D. (2024, Juli 12). Intelligente Systeme als adaptive Lernbegleiter. Unterschiedliche Perspektiven - gemeinsam zum Ziel! Wissenschaft und Praxis im Dialog zur zeitgemäßen Schule. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/242752; https://eveeno.com/gemeinsam-zum-ziel [Vortrag]
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]
Meurers, D. (2024, March 19). On using AI methods to carry out SLA research in real-life school contexts. Vitoria-Gasteiz. https://sifnos.iwm-tuebingen.de/dm/talks/24-03-19-Meurers-Vitoria-Gasteiz.pdf [Talk]
Meurers, D. (2024, September 16-20). Towards reflecting student heterogeneity in adaptive systems for authentic school contexts. 19th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (ECTEL 2024). Universität für Weiterbildung Krems, Austria. https://ea-tel.eu/ectel2024; https://ea-tel.eu/ectel2024/keynote-speakers [Talk]
Meurers, D. (2024, September 26-27). Adaptive individuelle Sprachförderung: Von Grundlagenfragen zu KI-basierter Unterstützung in der Bildungsrealität. Haupttagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Sprachendidaktik (ÖGSD). "Partizipation – Mehrsprachigkeit – Digitalisierung. Neue Ansätze für zukunftsfähiges Sprachenlernen". Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, Austria. https://www.oegsd.at/2024/02/05/partizipation-mehrsprachigkeit-digitalisierung-neue-ansaetze-fuer-zukunftsfaehiges-sprachenlernen/; https://www.oegsd.at/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Detmar_Meurers_Keynote-OeGSD-Haupttagung-2024.pdf [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2024, Oktober 2). Adaptive Sprachförderung mit digitalen Medien – Grundlagen und Potenziale. Fachforum des Kultusministeriums Rheinland-Pfalz "Diagnosegeleitete Sprachförderung mit 2P für Deutsch und DaZ". Mainz. [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2023, April 27-28). Linking second language acquisition research and digital language learning. 21st Annual Conference. Estonian Association for Applied Linguistics. Tallinn, Estonia. https://www.rakenduslingvistika.ee/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Meurers_Linking-Second-Language-Acquisition-Research-and-Digital-Language-Learning-.pdf [Talk]
Meurers, D. (2023, August 30-September 2). Scaling up SLA research in the classroom: Digitally supported randomized controlled field studies. 32nd Conference of the European Second Language Association. University of Birmingham, UK. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/lacab/events/eurosla-32; https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/lacab/events/eurosla-32/abstracts/detmar-meures [Talk]
Meurers, D. (2023, Januar 30). Computerlinguistische Analyse sprachlicher Komplexität von Lese- und Lernertexten. Fakultätsübergreifende Ringvorlesung "Computer, Mensch, Sprache". Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2023, July 24). Where do digital tools and AI methods offer real added value for language education? 8.º Encontro da Rede de Ensino Português no Estrangeiro. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Lisbon, Portugal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c94cuUKfccc&t=5226s [Talk]
Meurers, D., & Nuxoll, F. (2023, März 28). Künstliche Intelligenz in der Schule. Zeit für die Schule. http://medienwelten.schule/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Zeitenwende-KI-ZEIT-oe.pptx [Vortrag]
Daroczy, G., De Kuthy, K., & Meurers, D. (2022, März 17-18). Wo machen die sprachlichen Anforderungen von Texten und Aufgaben eigentlich einen Unterschied? Sprache als Schlüssel – wozu? Bildungserfolg im Fokus. Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. https://sifnos.iwm-tuebingen.de/dm/talks/22-03-17-Bamberg-Meurers-Abstract.pdf [Vortrag]
De Kuthy, K., & Meurers, D. (2022, September 22-24). Extending experimental research on the effectiveness of an intelligent tutoring system. A corpus study of authentic ESL student essays. 6th International Conference for Learner Corpus Research (LCR 2022). University of Padua, Italy. http://www.maldura.unipd.it/lcr-2022/index.html [Talk]
Meurers, D. (2022, September 16). Sprachliche Bildung digital "Webbasierte Diagnostik und Lernen im Fach Deutsch". Ministerium für Bildung des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz. [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2022, Dezember 2). Künstliche Intelligenz und aufgabenorientiertes Fremdsprachenlernen: Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen. Festakt 20 Jahre Innsbrucker Modell der Fremdsprachendidaktik (IMoF). Innsbruck, Austria. https://sifnos.iwm-tuebingen.de/dm/talks/22-12-02-meurers-innsbruck.pdf [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2022, September 16). Adaptives Lernen. Netzwerktag Kooperationsschulen. Joachim Herz Stiftung, Hamburg. [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2022, Januar 13). Wie können digitale Werkzeuge das Lernen in heterogenen Gruppen unterstützen? Ringvorlesung „Didaktik in heterogenen Lerngruppen“. Freie Universität Berlin, Dahlem School of Education. https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/dse/termine/didaktik-in-heterogenen-Lerngruppen_1.html [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2022, Juni 22-24). Künstliche Intelligenz und Pädagogik. Reale Herausforderungen der Schule adressieren. Arbeitstagung der Landesinstitutsleitungen 2022 zum Thema “Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung auf Lernen in Gegenwart und Zukunft". Radebeul. [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2022, Oktober 25). Digitale Werkzeuge und KI Methoden. Wo bieten digitale Werkzeuge und KI Methoden einen echten Mehrwert für den Fremdsprachenunterricht? Transformation des Fremdsprachenlernens. Goethe-Institut. https://web.archive.org/web/20230105122832/https://www.goethe.de/ins/il/de/spr/unt/wuv/tdf.html [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2022, Oktober 7). Adaptives Lernen: Diagnostik mit förderlichen Konsequenzen. 3. länderübergreifendes Austauschtreffen der Landesinstitute zu Individueller Diagnostik. [Vortrag]
Meurers, D., & De Kuthy, K. (2022, März 14). Von einem Framework zur personalisierten Bildung zur adaptiven Komplexitätsparametrisierung von Lernschritten in der ökonomischen Bildung. ALEE Projektworkshop. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. https://sifnos.iwm-tuebingen.de/dm/talks/22-03-14-ALEE-DeKuthy-Meurers.pdf [Vortrag]
Meurers, D., & Nuxoll, F. (2022, Juni 1-2). Wie künstliche Intelligenz die Schule verändern kann. Digitale Impulstage. https://www.zeitfuerdieschule.de/veranstaltungen/zeit-fuer-lehrer-digitale-impulstage/ [Vortrag]
Meurers, D., Rudzewitz, B., & Quixal, M. (2022, March 9-11). Adaptive systems for real-life education need explicit domain and activity models and ways to generate them automatically. 9. GEBF-Tagung. Bamberg. https://sifnos.iwm-tuebingen.de/dm/talks/22-03-09-GEBF-Meurers-ea-abstract.pdf [Talk]
Meurers, D., & Santhi Ponnusamy, H. (2022, July 27-31). Employing distributional semantics to organize task-focused vocabulary learning. 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED). Durham University, UK. [Talk]
Meurers, D. (2021, September 6-7). Erörterung von Vorschlägen für Eckpunkte einer Landesstrategie “KI in Schule und Lehrkräftebildung” – Initiierung eines Dialogs. Fachtagung Künstliche Intelligenz. Esslingen. [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2021, August 5). Mit KI im Bildungskontext reale Herausforderungen der Schule adressieren. AI2Teach: Individuelle Förderung auf der Basis einese erweiterten digitalen Lehr-Lern-Konzepts für den Fremdsprachenunterricht. Ministerium für Kultus, Jugend und Sport Baden-Württemberg, Abteilung 3. Stuttgart. [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2021, September 6-7). Mit KI reale Herausforderungen der Schule adressieren FeedBook: Konkretisierung eines Ansatzes für den Englischunterricht und Vision zum Hochskalieren in der Realität. Fachtagung Künstliche Intelligenz. Esslingen. [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2021, Mai 6). Maschinelles Lernen und computerbasierte Sprachverarbeitung: Potentiale und Grenzen. ML und computerbasierte Textanalysen. Potentiale und Herausforderung für die Naturwissenschaftsdidaktik. Kiel. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ghhvNgjeG9T5KUubzTtmR [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2021, Oktober 2). Wo kann die Digitalisierung konkret den Bildungs- und Fremdspracherwerb voranbringen? Digitalkongress Baden-Württemberg. Stuttgart. https://www.lmz-bw.de/landesmedienzentrum/aktuelles/aktuelle-meldungen/detailseite/digitalkongress-am-2-oktober-2021-jetzt-anmelden [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2021, Oktober 12). KI und Bildung: Können wir den Bildungs- und Fremdspracherwerb konkret voranbringen? Impulse Kontrovers – Podiumsgespräche 2021. Stuttgart. [Panel]
Meurers, D. (2021, November 11-12). Wie können digitale Technologien zu sprachlicher Bildung beitragen? 2. Jahrestagung der Initiative BiSS-Transfer zum Thema „Sprachliche Bildung digital“. Bremen. https://www.biss-sprachbildung.de/angebote-fuer-die-praxis/jahrestagungen/biss-jahrestagung-2021/ [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2020, Mai, 26-27). Konzepte der Binnendifferenzierung und adaptive Aufgabengestaltung. Workshop zum Adaptiven Lernen. Joachim Herz Stiftung, Hamburg. [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2020, Oktober 19). Adaptive, interaktive Förderung im Fach Englisch. Institut für Bildungsanalysen Baden-Württemberg (IBBW). Stuttgart. [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2020, Dezember 16). Intelligente Tutorsysteme für die reale Schule: Das FeedBook für das Fach Englisch und die Vision adaptiver KI-basierter Lösungen für konkrete Bildungsdesiderate. Stuttgart. [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2020, Dezember 2). Intelligente Tutorsysteme für die reale Schule: FeedBook und die Vision adaptiver KI-basierter Lösungen für konkrete Bildungsdesiderate. KMK Lenkungsgruppe "Bildung in der digitalen Welt". [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2020, November 30-Dezember 2). Adaptivität als Potenzial digitaler Werkzeuge? Fachtagung “KI Chancen und Herausforderungen für Schule und Unterricht”. Berlin. https://www.leibniz-ipn.de/de/das-ipn/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/sh-sommeruniversitaet-2024/03_Meurers.pdf [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2020, Februar 6-7). Wo können digitale Werkzeuge reale Probleme der Schule adressieren, basierend auf welchen Erkenntnissen der Zweitspracherwerbsforschung? Runder Tisch zum Lehrwerk 4.0. Herder Institut, Universität Leipzig. [Vortrag]
Meurers, D., & Weiss, Z. (2020, Februar 17-18). Methoden zur digitalen Analyse sprachlicher Komplexität im Bildungskontext. Jahrestagung des Mercator-Instituts "Hauptsache digital?! Sprachliche Bildung in der digitalisierten Gesellschaft". [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2019, Oktober 1). Computerlinguistische Methoden im Bildungskontext. Workshop "Digitale Lernwerkzeuge". Joachim Herz Stiftung, Hamburg. [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2019, April 10). Scaling up intervention studies to investigate real-life foreign language learning in school. Digital tools and AI methods that matter for students, teachers, and researchers. LEAD Retreat. Blaubeuren. [Talk]
Meurers, D. (2019, February 25). Providing feedback in a language tutoring system integrated into a real-life school context. Köln. [Talk]
Meurers, D. (2019, June 1). Computational linguistic analysis, assessment, and language development - Considering language and task. 16th EALTA conference, "Transitions in Language Assessment". University College Dublin, Ireland. https://sifnos.iwm-tuebingen.de/dm/talks/19-06-01-meurers.pdf; https://sifnos.iwm-tuebingen.de/dm/talks/19-06-01-meurers-ealta-keynote.mp4 [Talk]
Meurers, D. (2019, July 8). Developing broad computational linguistic analyses of linguistic complexity - And using them to explore adaptivity in theory and practice. Seminar of the Ixa research group. University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain. http://ixa.si.ehu.es/?language=en [Talk]
Meurers, D. (2019, July 9-10). Digital tools for real-life foreign language teaching and learning. Bikaintasuna Euskal Ikasketetan IX. Euskara eta euskal kultura eremu digitalean. Miramar Palace, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain. https://www.uik.eus/en/activity/bikaintasuna-euskal-ikasketetan-ix-euskara-euskal-kultura-eremu-digitalean [Talk]
Meurers, D. (2019, August 28-31). Analyzing linguistic complexity - And then what? #eurocall2019 CALL and complexity. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. https://www.eurocall-languages.org/conferences/past-conferences [Talk]
Meurers, D. (2019, September 27). Digitalisierung und Fremdsprachenlernen. 28. Kongress für Fremdsprachendidaktik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung. Würzburg. https://elibrary.utb.de/doi/book/10.3278/9783763969821 [Panel]
Meurers, D., De Kuthy, K., Nuxoll, F., Rudzewitz, B., & Ziai, R. (2019, March 28). Supporting individual practice with immediate feedback. Motivation, design, and evaluation of an interactive workbook for English language learners. Workshop "Digital Approaches to Teaching Historical Languages (DAtTeL)". Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. https://www.projekte.hu-berlin.de/en/callidus-en/DAtTeL-workshop [Talk]
Chen, X., & Meurers, D. (2018, February 28). Continuation writing shows alignment in linguistic complexity. "At the Interface of Second Language Acquisition and Computational Linguistics" INDUS Network Meeting. Tübingen. [Talk]
Chinkina, M., & Meurers, D. (2018, February 28). Input enrichment and questions as functionally-driven input enhancement. "At the Interface of Second Language Acquisition and Computational Linguistics" INDUS Network Meeting. Tübingen. [Talk]
De Kuthy, K., Kolditz, T., & Meurers, D. (2018, March 8). "Questions under discussion" - Annotation, Evaluation and Generation. 40. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS). Universität Stuttgart. https://www.dgfs2018.uni-stuttgart.de/arbeitsgruppen/ag-7-why-indeed-questions-at-the-interface-of-theoretical-and-computational-linguistics/ [Talk]
Meurers, D. (2018, Juli 27). Möglichkeiten der Digitalisierung. Eröffnung des Mehrsprachigkeitszentrums. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. https://www.bilingualism-matters.org/network/tubingen [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2018, July 24). Computational linguistics and second language research. Tübingen Summer School in Second Language Learning. [Talk]
Meurers, D. (2018, June 18). Modeling the linguistic complexity of German texts. Integrating insights from research on readability, language acquisition, and psycholinguistics. "Wie misst man Textqualität im digitalen Zeitalter?" Expertenworkshop zum Projekt MIT Qualität. Universität Mannheim. [Talk]
Meurers, D. (2018, November 30). Formative Rückmeldungen und adaptive Materialien im Fach Englisch. KI für reale Herausforderungen der Schule. Fachtagung "Künstliche Intelligenz - Chancen und Herausforderungen für Schule und Unterricht". Berlin. https://www.leibniz-ipn.de/de/das-ipn/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/sh-sommeruniversitaet-2024/03_Meurers.pdf [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2018, Juli 11). Was bietet die Digitalisierung für den Fremdspracherwerb? Interaktivität & Adaptivität: Lösungen für reale Probleme der Schule. Landesinstitut für Schulentwicklung, Stuttgart. [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2018, Februar 8). Was bietet die Digitalisierung für den Fremdspracherwerb? Workshop "Möglichkeiten der Digitalisierung im Englischunterricht". Landesakademie für Fortbildung und Personalentwicklung an Schulen, Bad Wildbad. [Vortrag]
Meurers, D. (2018, February 12). Analyzing learner corpora on annotation, task effects, and linguistic complexity analysis. Workshop "Corpus-based Approaches to Language Learning and Language Assessment". Universität Bremen. [Talk]
Meurers, D. (2018, May 17). Modeling the linguistic complexity of language input and output - And linking the two. Distinguished Speakers in Language Science Colloquium. Universität des Saarlandes, Department of Language Science & Technology and iDeaL (SFB 1102), Saarbrücken. [Talk]
Meurers, D. (2018, October 9). How can we analyze the lingusitic complexity of texts? Zooming in on the elaborateness and variedness of language in a computational linguistic analysis. Workshop "Texte verstehen - Neue Herausforderungen im Hinblick auf die Neugestaltung der Oberstufe ab Abitur 2021". Landesakademie für Fortbildung und Personalentwicklung an Schulen, Bad Wildbad. [Talk]
Meurers, D. (2018, July 2). Modeling the linguistic complexity of German texts. Integrating insights from research on readability, language acquisition, and psycholinguistics. Computational Linguistics Colloquium. Universität Potsdam. https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/ling/events/past-events-2018.html [Talk]
Prof. Dr. Walt Detmar Meurers
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