Karin Harbusch

Prof. Dr. Karin Harbusch is a Professor and Head of the Institute of Computational Visualistics at the University of Koblenz. She leads research in Natural Language Processing (NLP), focusing on syntactic analysis, natural language generation, and grammar formalisms like Performance Grammar (PG). Her work includes collaborations across European universities, exploring sentence coordination and elision mechanisms in multiple languages. She oversees projects such as EASYTALK, an input component for Easy Language, and developed the EEMWT dataset for multiword term analysis.

Her doctoral advisees include Maria Druselmann (computational linguistics), Denis Memmesheimer, and Ina Steinmetz. Research emphasizes multilingual system development, with applications in semantic search, AI assistants, and automated knowledge bases. The institute’s parallel corpus evaluates parsing components for sentence ellipses, demonstrating cross-linguistic patterns in Finno-Ugric and Slavic languages.