Invited Talk: Prof. Dr. Andrea Horbach on November 19, 2024

We like to invite you to our upcoming Invited talk by Prof. Dr. Andrea Horbach from the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and Leibniz IPN. The talk will take place on Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at 15:30, in Room 1101.F435 (Welfengarten 1):

# Speaker

Prof. Dr. Andrea Horbach

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and Leibniz IPN

https://www.leibniz-ipn.de/de/das-ipn/ueber-uns/personen/andrea-horbach 

# Time and location

Tuesday, November 19, 15:30

1101.F435 (Welfengarten 1) 

# Title

Educational NLP with a focus on argumentative texts

# Abstract

In this talk, I will present ongoing research from the Educational Natural Language Processing group in Kiel, focusing on how NLP tools can support both students and teachers in writing and grading argumentative texts. Specifically, I will discuss experiments conducted on the English-language PERSUADE and MEWS datasets, as well as the German-language DARIUS dataset. These experiments explore several dimensions: beyond evaluating scoring performance, we examine the fairness of automated grading algorithms and the cross-linguistic and cross-cultural transferability of these algorithms when applied to texts written by students from Germany and the United States, in both L1 and L2 contexts.

External participants (i.e. neither students nor employees of LUH) are kindly requested to send a short, informal email to office@ai.uni-hannover.de to register.