Regina Stodden

Regina Stodden is a Research Fellow at the Department of Computational Linguistics, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, since January 2019. She is affiliated with the NRW Research College for Online Participation (second funding phase) and works under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marc Ziegele.

• Education:
  • B.A. in Educational Science, Text Technology, and Computational Linguistics from Bielefeld University
  • M.A. in Information Science and Language Technology from HHU Düsseldorf

Her research focuses on automatic text processing, particularly text simplification for online discussions. This includes:

• Enabling participation for people with limited German proficiency
• Reducing manual workload in text analysis
• Exploring accessibility in Open Data portals

She has contributed to tools like TS-ANNO for corpus annotation and EASSE-DE for simplification evaluation, with recent work extending to CEFR-based language proficiency assessment. Her research intersects Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Usability Studies, often addressing accessibility challenges in digital participation.

Scientific awards: No explicit awards mentioned.

Advising and grants: Participates in the NRW Research College for Online Participation funding program and collaborates under Prof. Dr. Laura Kallmeyer's supervision. Her work involves grants related to text simplification for online participation processes.