Languages and Culture Studies

Research Interests

• 20th century German Literature and Film
• Cultural Studies
• New Media Theory

Research Projects

Current

• Augmented Reality Games
• Computer Games that deal with German history

Past

• Work on Electronic Literature (Dissertation)
• Digital Image Theory

Teaching Projects

Current

Working on a database/interactive map of Berlin to be populated by content from students going abroad (possible platform OMEKA)

Past

Senior seminar on technology in society and at work

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 .

Past