Torsten Zesch

60 papers · 2007–2026 · 9 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🏃 Academic Marathon (18) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (6) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (63) 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (7) 🌍 Conference Polyglot (9) 🌟 Keyword Trendsetter Combo (4) 👥 Mega-Team (20) 🤝 Dynamic Duo (16) 🔬 Deep Specialist (14) 🏆 Keyword Champion (2) ⚡ Prolific Year (6) 📈 Trend Setter 🚀 Conference Pioneer ❓ The Questioner (7) 🗃️ Keyword Collector (166) 🔥 Unstoppable (15) 💎 Century Club (59)

Conferences

ACL (19) COLING (9) NAACL (9) SEMEVAL (9) EACL (6) EMNLP (3) IJCNLP (3) AACL (1) CONLL (1)

Top co-authors

Iryna Gurevych (16) Andrea Horbach (13) Marie Bexte (10) Piush Aggarwal (5) Tobias Horsmann (5) Daniel Bär (4) Michael Wojatzki (3) Ronja Laarmann-Quante (3) Preslav Nakov (3) Nicolai Erbs (3)

Research topics

Keywords

text classification (11) hate speech detection (6) automatic scoring (6) natural language processing (4) content scoring (4) zero-shot learning (4) domain adaptation (3) short-answer scoring (3) part-of-speech tagging (3) large language model (3) word embedding (3) educational assessment (2) corpus annotation (2) transfer learning (2) data augmentation (2) inter-annotator agreement (2) adversarial attack (2) multimodal learning (2) cross-lingual transfer (2) handwriting recognition (2)

Papers

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