Member of Language and AI in Education lab
Kordula De Kuthy has been a postdoc researcher in the Language and AI in Education lab at the IWM since August 2024. Prior to that, she was a researcher (PostDoc) in the ALEE (Adaptive Learning in Economics Education) project at the University of Tübingen since October 2021. From October 2014 until September 2021 she worked in the project A4 "Comparing Meaning in Context" of the CRC 833 at the University of Tübingen. She researches and develops formal pragmatic theories and their application in the annotation of text corpora. Building on this, she has co-developed several approaches to neural question generation. Another focus of her research is in the area of intelligent tutoring systems, she was significantly involved in the first randomized field study with the intelligent language tutoring system FeedBook.
Kordula De Kuthy studied Linguistics, Romance languages and computer science at the University of Tübingen. From 1996 to 2000 she was a fellow of the Graduate School of Cognitive Science at Saarland University, where she received her doctorate in computational linguistics in 2000. From 2001 to 2003 she was a Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Linguistics at Ohio State University. Her research focuses on computational linguistics, especially in the areas of information structure and formal pragmatics.
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
Open Access
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
Open Access
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
Open Access
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
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
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
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
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
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/
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
De Kuthy, K., Meurers, D., Neubauer, K., Brefeld, U., Dietrich, F., Koch, M., & Loerwald, D. (2025, Januar 27-29). Adaptive Lernverläufe benötigen differenzierte Lehrprozesse. 12. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für empirische Bildungsforschung. Universität Mannheim. https://www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/gebf-2025/start/ [Vortrag]
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]
De Kuthy, K., & Meurers, D. (2024, November 19). Inwiefern lässt sich die Heterogenität der Lernenden durch adaptive digitale Systeme berücksichtigen? Modul 5 "Digitale Transformation" des Masterstudiengangs “Schulmanagement und Leadership”. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. [Vortrag]
Loerwald, D., & De Kuthy, K. (2023, November 27-28). Adaptives digitales Lernen in der ökonomischen Bildung. Adaptives Lernen und KI in der schulischen und beruflichen Bildung: Potenziale und Herausforderungen technologiegestützten Lehrens und Lernens. Hamburg. https://www.joachim-herz-stiftung.de/fileadmin/Redaktion/Projekte/Naturwissenschaften/20231121_Programm_Adaptives_Lernen_und_KI_in_der_schulischen_und_beruflichen_Bildung.pdf [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., & 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., 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]
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]
Dr. Kordula De Kuthy
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