Nadine Braun

Nadine Braun is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Cognition within the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences at Tilburg University. Her research focuses on the interplay of affect and language, particularly self-other perceptions of emotional expressions. She completed her PhD within the interdisciplinary 'Producing Affective Language' project, examining content selection, message formulation, and computational modeling.

Her work spans experimental psychology and computational linguistics, with key interests in emotion expression/perception, language production, and cross-cultural dynamics. Recent studies include analyzing fluency ratings in generated text (2024), reproducibility of best-worst scaling in NLG (2023), and cross-cultural comparisons of shame/guilt in L1/L2 texts (2022).

Braun collaborates extensively with researchers like Martijn Goudbeek and Emiel Krahmer, contributing to datasets like the Multilingual Emotional Football Corpus. She emphasizes reproducibility in NLP evaluations, leading to publications in venues like HumEval and ACL workshops.