Annette Hautli-Janisz

Prof. Annette Hautli-Janisz holds the Assistant Professorship for Computational Rhetoric and Natural Language Processing at the University of Passau (since 2022). She is an Associate Member of the Centre for Argument Technology at the University of Dundee and leads the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Linguistic Data Analysis. Previously, she was a junior research group leader at the University of Konstanz. Her research focuses on computational models for analyzing debate patterns, integrating methods like rule-based systems and neural networks. Key projects include the Deliberation Laboratory (DeLab) (funded by the Volkswagen Foundation) and the Public Service Encounters (PSE) Corpus (funded by the DFG). Her work bridges computational linguistics and theoretical communication models, with implications for AI ethics, argument mining, and deliberative democracy.

• Education: Doctorate in Computational Linguistics (not explicitly stated; inferred from academic rank).
• Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG Cluster "Politics of Inequality") and Volkswagen Foundation ("AI and the Future of Society").

Research interests emphasize automated identification of rhetorical strategies, argument structure analysis, and the interplay between implicit linguistic patterns and theoretical communication frameworks. Notable contributions include studies on ChatGPT-generated content quality and AI's role in mimicking human debate styles.

Her work has been featured in media like Forbes, Heise Online, and THE DECODER, highlighting interdisciplinary impacts on AI ethics and public discourse.

Labs/Teams: Leads the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Linguistic Data Analysis and collaborates with the University of Dundee's Centre for Argument Technology.