Torsten Zesch

PictureStories: Predicting the Task Adherence of Language Learner Answers to a Picture Story-Based Writing Task EACL 2026 Where it’s at: Annotating Verb Placement Types in Learner Language ACL 2025 Down the Cascades of Omethi: Hierarchical Automatic Scoring in Large-Scale Assessments ACL 2025 Transformer-Based Real-Word Spelling Error Feedback with Configurable Confusion Sets ACL 2025 Is Lunch Free Yet? Overcoming the Cold-Start Problem in Supervised Content Scoring using Zero-Shot LLM-Generated Training Data ACL 2025 Every Verb in Its Right Place? A Roadmap for Operationalizing Developmental Stages in the Acquisition of L2 German COLING 2024 EVil-Probe - a Composite Benchmark for Extensive Visio-Linguistic Probing COLING 2024 LLMs in Short Answer Scoring: Limitations and Promise of Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Approaches NAACL 2024 Scoring with Confidence? – Exploring High-confidence Scoring for Saving Manual Grading Effort NAACL 2024 Unraveling the Dynamics of Semi-Supervised Hate Speech Detection: The Impact of Unlabeled Data Characteristics and Pseudo-Labeling Strategies EACL 2024 Text or Image? What is More Important in Cross-Domain Generalization Capabilities of Hate Meme Detection Models? EACL 2024 Rainbow - A Benchmark for Systematic Testing of How Sensitive Visio-Linguistic Models are to Color Naming EACL 2024 Comprehensive Study on German Language Models for Clinical and Biomedical Text Understanding COLING 2024 Similarity-Based Content Scoring - A more Classroom-Suitable Alternative to Instance-Based Scoring? ACL 2023 Preserving the Authenticity of Handwritten Learner Language: Annotation Guidelines for Creating Transcripts Retaining Orthographic Features ACL 2023 Recognizing Learner Handwriting Retaining Orthographic Errors for Enabling Fine-Grained Error Feedback ACL 2023 Improving Generalization of Hate Speech Detection Systems to Novel Target Groups via Domain Adaptation NAACL 2022 ‘Meet me at the ribary’ – Acceptability of spelling variants in free-text answers to listening comprehension prompts NAACL 2022 Similarity-Based Content Scoring - How to Make S-BERT Keep Up With BERT NAACL 2022 Analyzing the Real Vulnerability of Hate Speech Detection Systems against Targeted Intentional Noise COLING 2022 A Legal Approach to Hate Speech – Operationalizing the EU’s Legal Framework against the Expression of Hatred as an NLP Task EMNLP 2022 VL-BERT+: Detecting Protected Groups in Hateful Multimodal Memes ACL 2021 VL-BERT+: Detecting Protected Groups in Hateful Multimodal Memes IJCNLP 2021 A Crash Course on Ethics for Natural Language Processing NAACL 2021 C-Test Collector: A Proficiency Testing Application to Collect Training Data for C-Tests EACL 2021 Implicit Phenomena in Short-answer Scoring Data IJCNLP 2021 Implicit Phenomena in Short-answer Scoring Data ACL 2021 Chinese Content Scoring: Open-Access Datasets and Features on Different Segmentation Levels AACL 2020 Don’t take “nswvtnvakgxpm” for an answer –The surprising vulnerability of automatic content scoring systems to adversarial input COLING 2020 ltl.uni-due at SemEval-2019 Task 5: Simple but Effective Lexico-Semantic Features for Detecting Hate Speech in Twitter SEMEVAL 2019 Annotating and analyzing the interactions between meaning relations ACL 2019 LTL-UDE at SemEval-2019 Task 6: BERT and Two-Vote Classification for Categorizing Offensiveness SEMEVAL 2019 From legal to technical concept: Towards an automated classification of German political Twitter postings as criminal offenses NAACL 2019 Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications ACL 2019 Cross-Lingual Content Scoring NAACL 2018 Do LSTMs really work so well for PoS tagging? – A replication study EMNLP 2017 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2016) SEMEVAL 2016 Assigning Fine-grained PoS Tags based on High-precision Coarse-grained Tagging COLING 2016 Predicting proficiency levels in learner writings by transferring a linguistic complexity model from expert-written coursebooks COLING 2016 ltl.uni-due at SemEval-2016 Task 6: Stance Detection in Social Media Using Stacked Classifiers SEMEVAL 2016 Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015) SEMEVAL 2015 DKPro Keyphrases: Flexible and Reusable Keyphrase Extraction Experiments ACL 2014 Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2014) SEMEVAL 2014 DKPro TC: A Java-based Framework for Supervised Learning Experiments on Textual Data ACL 2014 DKPro WSD: A Generalized UIMA-based Framework for Word Sense Disambiguation ACL 2013 Recognizing Partial Textual Entailment ACL 2013 Cognate Production using Character-based Machine Translation IJCNLP 2013 SemEval-2013 Task 5: Evaluating Phrasal Semantics SEMEVAL 2013 UKP-BIU: Similarity and Entailment Metrics for Student Response Analysis SEMEVAL 2013 DKPro Similarity: An Open Source Framework for Text Similarity ACL 2013 Measuring Contextual Fitness Using Error Contexts Extracted from the Wikipedia Revision History EACL 2012 Text Reuse Detection using a Composition of Text Similarity Measures COLING 2012 Using Distributional Similarity for Lexical Expansion in Knowledge-based Word Sense Disambiguation COLING 2012 UKP: Computing Semantic Textual Similarity by Combining Multiple Content Similarity Measures SEMEVAL 2012 Wikulu: An Extensible Architecture for Integrating Natural Language Processing Techniques with Wikis ACL 2011 Wikipedia Revision Toolkit: Efficiently Accessing Wikipedia’s Edit History ACL 2011 What to be? - Electronic Career Guidance Based on Semantic Relatedness ACL 2007 Cross-Lingual Distributional Profiles of Concepts for Measuring Semantic Distance EMNLP 2007 Comparing Wikipedia and German Wordnet by Evaluating Semantic Relatedness on Multiple Datasets NAACL 2007 Cross-Lingual Distributional Profiles of Concepts for Measuring Semantic Distance CONLL 2007