Projects Digital Linguistics

The scientific exchange invites Dr. Zock to the Institute of Language Competence at ZHAW. During 3 monts we will work on the project "Digital support for writing: cognitively motivated authoring aid, supported by LLMs". This project addresses the cognitive and technical challenges of writing by…

The Computational Competences for Non-Tech Students project is a sub-project of the swissuniversities project digibasics.

The introduction of generative AI tools has caused a substantial transformation of text production. The goal of this project is to investigate the new writing strategies by comparing writing processes with and without generative AI support, and to identify best practices for efficient and effective…

Psychosocial family counselling writes reports for stakeholders with different levels of literacy and expertise. Writing coaching and insights from corpus analysis enable family counselling to optimise their writing processes and to be understood by the stakeholders in the intended message.

SPPC (Swiss Process–Product Corpus of Student Writing Development) is a novel longitudinal corpus of L1 student writing, linking automatically annotated and aggregated process data with the resulting product (text) and competence data. It will facilitate the development of teaching interventions…

Writing in most contexts today is done with digital, computer-assisted support. Technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) such as intelligent tutoring (IT), automated writing evaluation (AWE), automated text production (ATP) and machine translation (MT) present new opportunities,…

Writing is essential for societal participation. I will create a systematic overview of research on current digital writing tools & provide important insights into how writers use them, helping us to better understand their needs & identify important challenges for research into digital text…

Processing final papers (theses) is a big challenge for universities. Depending on student numbers, educational establishments have to supervise hundreds, if not thousands, of papers each year. Students on short Bachelor's study programs often have insufficient personal resources for the autonomous…