Vitor Fontanella

Vitor Fontanella is a Researcher in Computational Linguistics at Distance University, working on the KISS-Pro project within the CATALPA research cluster. His work focuses on leveraging artificial intelligence to develop pedagogically effective feedback systems for educational writing tasks.

• Research assistant at CATALPA (since 2024)
• PhD student in lernMINT program (2020-2024)
• Master of Arts in Computational Linguistics (2018-2020)
• Bachelor in Physics (2010)

His research interests center on Natural Language Processing for Educational Applications and AI in Education, particularly examining:

• AI-based feedback systems for argumentative writing
• Integration of chatbots in school language learning
• Computational semantics for domain-specific ambiguity detection
• Corpus linguistics for educational content analysis

Publications demonstrate expertise in creating educational text corpora and implementing unsupervised learning techniques for educational NLP applications. Current projects like KISS-Pro (AI in Language Learning - Concepts for Teacher Professional Development) focus on practical implementation frameworks for these technologies.