Andrea Horbach

Prof. Dr. Andrea Horbach is a Professor of 'Teaching and Learning in the Digital World' at Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (CAU) and the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN). She leads the EduNLP junior research group, focusing on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for educational applications. Previously, she held a Junior Professorship in Digital Humanities at Hildesheim University and led the EduNLP group at FernUniversität Hagen. Her research emphasizes automated essay scoring, feedback generation, and language technology for education.

Education:

• PhD in Computational Linguistics, Saarland University (2018)
• MSc (Diplom) in Computational Linguistics, Saarland University (2008)
• Postdoctoral Research at Duisburg-Essen University (2016–2021)

Research Interests: NLP for education, automated content scoring, AI-driven feedback systems, and cross-lingual learning applications. Her work bridges technical NLP advancements with practical classroom needs, aiming to enhance writing and assessment tools for learners.

Articles & Projects: Recent contributions address automated scoring weaknesses, AI feedback effectiveness, and benchmarking visio-linguistic models. She co-edits proceedings for NLP in education and collaborates on projects like CATALPA to integrate language-centric digital tools into teaching.

Awards: None explicitly listed.

Advising & Grants: Supervised over 20 theses on topics like adversarial input detection in scoring systems and multilingual spellchecking. Active in funding initiatives for educational NLP and has led CATALPA’s EduNLP group.

Labs/Teams: Leads the EduNLP group and collaborates with CATALPA, focusing on predictive analytics and advanced learning technologies.