Research Interests
- Corpus linguistics, computer linguistics and natural language processing for German studies and Second language acquisition;
- eLearning, data-driven learning;
- automation of production of learning materials (graphics, audio, and text);
- pedagogy of the fully computer-supported face-to-face teaching second language acquisition classroom.
Research Projects
Current
- Software for integration of digital audio lab into HE teaching and learning workflow via MS-Exchange EWS API programming;
- Software for time-stretching audio;
- NLP platform exploration for automatic glossing and user lookup tracking of texts for SLA extensive reading.
Past
- My Ph.D. thesis expanded the close reading of textual variants in the German editorial schools of Hans Zäch and the use of the computer-generated textual concordances in the interpretation and selection of textual variants into a corpus linguistic-inspired approach, that traced Leitmotifs in the work (partially first digitized by myself) of the foremost Swiss-German classic as a digital corpus using Regular Expressions programming
- Learning material production with NLP for reading comprehension and vocabulary acquisition: gloss and track
- (CALICO 2004)
- Karaoke in the Digital Language Lab (Audio DSP for creation of language learning materials; SWALLT 2006)
- Developed Learning Exercise Creation Engines (EUROCALL 2007)
- Automating Auralog: learning path extraction, account creation, learning path creation (EUROCALL 2008)
- Batch-produced time-stretched audio for personalized language learning (IALLT 2011)
- Using NLP tools to automate production and correction of interactive learning material (Calico 2012)
- Driving Tutorial Call Into The Face-To-Face Classroom, and What It Took… (IALLT 2013)
Teaching Projects
Current
I do not teach for credit here, but hold language teaching with technology workshops for teachers and students .