Niels Ott

Computational Linguist

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  • Detmar Meurers, Niels Ott, and Ramon Ziai. On the creation and analysis of a reading comprehension exercise corpus: Evaluating meaning in context. In Thomas Schmidt and Kai Wörner, eds: Multilingual Corpora and Multilingual Corpus Analysis, Hamburg Studies in Multilingualism. John Benjamins, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, 2011.
    (IN PREPARATION)

2011

  • Detmar Meurers, Ramon Ziai, Niels Ott, and Stacey Bailey (2011). Integrating Parallel Analysis Modules to Evaluate the Meaning of Answers to Reading Comprehension Questions. In: International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning (IJCEELL). Special Issue on Free-text Automatic Evaluation Vol. 21, No 4, 2011. 355-369.
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  • Detmar Meurers, Ramon Ziai, Niels Ott and Janina Kopp (2011). Evaluating Answers to Reading Comprehension Questions in Context: Results for German and the Role of Information Structure. In: Proceedings of the TextInfer 2011 Workshop on Textual Entailment at EMNLP, Edinburgh.
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2010

  • Detmar Meurers, Niels Ott, Ramon Ziai (2010). Compiling a Task-Based Corpus for the Analysis of Learner Language in Context. In Pre-Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2010.
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  • Detmar Meurers, Ramon Ziai, Luiz Amaral, Adriane Boyd, Aleksandar Dimitrov, Vanessa Metcalf, Niels Ott (2010). Enhancing Authentic Web Pages for Language Learners. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, NAACL-HLT 2010, Los Angeles.
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  • Niels Ott and Detmar Meurers (2010). Information Retrieval for Education: Making Search Engines Language Aware. In: Themes in Science and Technology Education. Special issue on Computer-aided language analysis, teaching and learning: approaches, perspectives and applications. Vol. 3, No 1–2, pp. 9–30.
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  • Niels Ott and Ramon Ziai (2010). Evaluating Dependency Parsing Performance on German Learner Language. In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT9). Tartu, Estonia, 3–4 December, 2010.
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2009

  • Niels Ott (2009). Information Retrieval for Language Learning: An Exploration of Text Difficulty Measures. Master's Thesis in Computational Linguistics submitted to the Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Tübingen.
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2008

  • Niels Ott and Ramon Ziai (2008). ICALL Activities for Gerunds vs. To-infinitives: A Constraint Grammar-based Extension to the New WERTi System. Term paper for the course Using Natural Language Processing to Foster Language Awareness in Second Language Learning taught in summer 2008 at Tübingen University by Detmar Meurers..
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2006

  • Niels Ott (2006). Equipping TRALE with a Morphological Analyzer. Bachelor of Arts Thesis submitted to the Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Tübingen..
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2005

Term Papers

Contributions to science should be free. Most term papers are none of that kind. A non-free selection that might be of interest for people who do not find the time to do their own research for their own term papers can be found on the GRIN Verlag webpage.
Posted by Niels Ott • 2011-08-25