Scientist
Dr. Kordula De Kuthy
Dr. Kordula De Kuthy
Kordula De Kuthy has been a postdoc researcher in the Language and AI in Education lab at the IWM since August 2024. Prior to that, she was a researcher (PostDoc) in the ALEE (Adaptive Learning in Economics Education) project at the University of Tübingen for three years. From October 2014 until September 2021 she worked in the project A4 "Comparing Meaning in Context" of the CRC 833 at the University of Tübingen. She researches and develops formal pragmatic theories and their application in the annotation of text corpora. Building on this, she has co-developed several approaches to neural question generation. Another focus of her research is in the area of intelligent tutoring systems, she was significantly involved in the first randomized field study with the intelligent language tutoring system FeedBook.
Main research topics
- intelligent tutor systems
- linguistic complexity analysis
- automatic question generation
- formal pragmatics
Dr. Kordula De Kuthy
Schleichstr. 6
72072 Tübingen
Room 8.307
+49 7071 979-182k.dekuthy@iwm-tuebingen.deLab membership
Project
Projects with a current term and projects that have taken place in the last 5 years are shown.
ALEE: Adaptive Learning in Economics Education – Phase II
Language and AI in Education lab
Duration 01/2025 - 05/2028
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Publications
Articles (peer-reviewed)
- De Kuthy, K., Kannan, M., Santhi Ponnusamy, H., & Meurers, D. (2022). Exploring neural question generation for formal pragmatics: Data set and model evaluation. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2022.966013
- De Kuthy, K., Kannan, M., Santhi Ponnusamy, H., & Meurers, D. (2021). Advancing neural question generation for formal pragmatics: Learning when to generate and when to copy. In K. De Kuthy & D. Meurers (Eds.). Proceedings of the 1st workshop on integrating perspectives on discourse annotation (Vol. 1, pp. 31-40). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2021.discann-1.6.pdf
- Kannan, M., Santhi Ponnusamy, H., De Kuthy, K., Stein, L., & Meurers, D. (2021). Exploring input representation granularity for generating questions satisfying question-answer congruence. In A. Belz, A. Fan, E. Reiter, & Y. Sripada (Eds.). Proceedings of the 14th international conference on natural language generation (pp. 24-34). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.inlg-1.3
- De Kuthy, K., Kannan, M., Santhi Ponnusamy, H., & Meurers, D. (2020). Towards automatically generating questions under discussion to link information and discourse structure. In D. Scott, N. Bel, & C. Zong (Eds.). Proceedings of the 28th international conference on computational linguistics (pp. 5786-5798). International Committee on Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.509
- Rudzewitz, B., Ziai, R., Nuxoll, F., De Kuthy, K., & Meurers, D. (2019). Enhancing a web-based language tutoring system with learning analytics. In L. Paquette & C. Romero (Eds.). Joint Proceedings of the Workshops of the 12th International Conference on Educational Data Mining co-located with the 12th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) (Vol. 2592, pp. 1-7). https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2592/paper1.pdf
- Meurers, D., De Kuthy, K., Nuxoll, F., Rudzewitz, B., & Ziai, R. (2019). Scaling up intervention studies to investigate real-life foreign language learning in school. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 39, 161-188. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0267190519000126
- Ziai, R., Nuxoll, F., De Kuthy, K., Rudzewitz, B., & Meurers, D. (2019). The impact of spelling correction and task context on short answer assessment for intelligent tutoring systems. In D. Alfter, E. Volodina, L. Borin, I. Pilan, & H. Lange (Eds.). Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning (Vol. 39, pp. 93-99). LiU Electronic Press. https://aclanthology.org/W19-6310.pdf
- Meurers, D., De Kuthy, K., Möller, V., Nuxoll, F., Rudzewitz, B., & Ziai, R. (2018). Digitale Differenzierung benötigt Informationen zu Sprache, Aufgabe und Lerner. Zur Generierung von individuellem Feedback in einem interaktiven Arbeitsheft. FLuL - Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen, 47(2), 64-82.
- Ziai, R., Rudzewitz, B., De Kuthy, K., Nuxoll, F., & Meurers, D. (2018). Feedback strategies for form and meaning in a real-life language tutoring system. In I. Pilán, E. Volodina, D. Alfter, & L. Borin (Eds.). Proceedings of the 7th workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning (pp. 91-98). LiU Electronic Press. https://aclanthology.org/W18-7110/
- Rudzewitz, B., Ziai, R., De Kuthy, K., Möller, V., Nuxoll, F., & Meurers, D. (2018). Generating feedback for English foreign language exercises. In J. Tetreault, J. Burstein, E. Kochmar, C. Leacock, & H. Yannakoudakis (Eds.). Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (pp. 127-136). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W18-0513
Books and book chapters
- Meurers, D., De Kuthy, K., Nuxoll, F., Rudzewitz, B., & Ziai, R. (2019). KI zur Lösung realer Schulherausforderungen: Interaktive und adaptive Materialien im Fach Englisch. Schulmanagement-Handbuch (1/2019 Aufl., S. 65-84). Cornelsen.
Presentations und Conferences
- De Kuthy, K., Meurers, D., Neubauer, K., Brefeld, U., Dietrich, F., Koch, M., & Loerwald, D. (2025, January 27-29). Adaptive Lernverläufe benötigen differenzierte Lehrprozesse. KI zur Förderung und Analyse von Lehr- und Lernprozessen. 12. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für empirische Bildungsforschung. Universität Mannheim. https://www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/gebf-2025/start/ [Talk]
- De Kuthy, K., & Meurers, D. (2025, April 2-4). Does homework practice transfer to free writing? Results from a randomized controlled field study with an Intelligent Tutoring System in authentic EFL classes. Colloquium “Technology in task-based assessment: Affordances and challenges”. 11th International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT 2025). Groningen University, Netherlands. https://www.rug.nl/research/clcg/research/nld2017/tblt2025/ [Invited Talk]
- De Kuthy, K., & Meurers, D. (2024, November 19). Inwiefern lässt sich die Heterogenität der Lernenden durch adaptive digitale Systeme berücksichtigen? Modul 5 "Digitale Transformation" des Masterstudiengangs “Schulmanagement und Leadership”. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. [Talk]
- Loerwald, D., & De Kuthy, K. (2023, November 27-28). Adaptives digitales Lernen in der ökonomischen Bildung. Adaptives Lernen und KI in der schulischen und beruflichen Bildung: Potenziale und Herausforderungen technologiegestützten Lehrens und Lernens. Joachim Herz Stiftung, Hamburg. https://www.joachim-herz-stiftung.de/fileadmin/Redaktion/Projekte/Naturwissenschaften/20231121_Programm_Adaptives_Lernen_und_KI_in_der_schulischen_und_beruflichen_Bildung.pdf [Talk]
- De Kuthy, K., & Meurers, D. (2022, September 22-24). Extending experimental research on the effectiveness of an intelligent tutoring system. A corpus study of authentic ESL student essays. 6th International Conference for Learner Corpus Research (LCR 2022). University of Padua, Italy. http://www.maldura.unipd.it/lcr-2022/index.html [Talk]
- Meurers, D., & De Kuthy, K. (2022, March 14). Von einem Framework zur personalisierten Bildung zur adaptiven Komplexitätsparametrisierung von Lernschritten in der ökonomischen Bildung. ALEE Projektworkshop. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. https://sifnos.iwm-tuebingen.de/dm/talks/22-03-14-ALEE-DeKuthy-Meurers.pdf [Talk]
- Daroczy, G., De Kuthy, K., & Meurers, D. (2022, March 17-18). Wo machen die sprachlichen Anforderungen von Texten und Aufgaben eigentlich einen Unterschied? Sprache als Schlüssel – wozu? Bildungserfolg im Fokus. Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. https://sifnos.iwm-tuebingen.de/dm/talks/22-03-17-Bamberg-Meurers-Abstract.pdf [Talk]
- Meurers, D., De Kuthy, K., Nuxoll, F., Rudzewitz, B., & Ziai, R. (2019, March 28). Supporting individual practice with immediate feedback. Motivation, design, and evaluation of an interactive workbook for English language learners. Workshop "Digital Approaches to Teaching Historical Languages (DAtTeL)". Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. https://www.projekte.hu-berlin.de/en/callidus-en/DAtTeL-workshop [Invited Talk]
- De Kuthy, K., Kolditz, T., & Meurers, D. (2018, March 8). "Questions under discussion" - Annotation, Evaluation and Generation. 40. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS). Universität Stuttgart. https://www.dgfs2018.uni-stuttgart.de/arbeitsgruppen/ag-7-why-indeed-questions-at-the-interface-of-theoretical-and-computational-linguistics/ [Talk]
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