Magdalena Wolska

Magdalena Wolska
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar · Digital Bauhaus Lab

PhD

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Introduction
Additional affiliations
September 2015 - March 2016
Heidelberg University
Position
  • Faculty Member
August 2013 - September 2017
University of Tübingen
Position
  • Researcher
January 2003 - July 2013
Saarland University
Position
  • Researcher
Education
May 2013 - May 2013
Saarland University
Field of study
  • https://publikationen.sulb.uni-saarland.de/handle/20.500.11880/30854
July 1996 - May 1998
University of Wolverhampton
Field of study
  • https://www.worldcat.org/title/language-engineering-architecture-for-anaphor-resolution-an-implemented-algorithm-for-resolving-third-person-neuter-pronouns-in-software-help-texts/oclc/263578818

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Publications (79)
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Der Artikel diskutiert einerseits die KI-Nutzung in der Hochschullehre und andererseits das Forschende Lernen als hochschuldidaktische Methode. Beides wird zusammengebracht am Beispiel des Projeks SKILL (Sozialwissenschaftliches KI-Labor für Forschendes Lernen).
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The paper gives a brief overview of three shared tasks which have been organized at the PAN 2023 lab on digital text forensics and stylometry hosted at the CLEF 2023 conference. The tasks include authorship verification across discourse types, multi-author writing style analysis, profiling cryptocurrency influencers with few-shot learning, and trig...
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The paper gives a brief overview of the four shared tasks organized at the PAN 2023 lab on digital text forensics and stylometry to be hosted at the CLEF 2023 conference. The general goal of the PAN lab is to advance the state-of-the-art in text forensics and stylometry while ensuring objective evaluation of new and established methods on newly dev...
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At least 5% of questions submitted to search engines ask about cause-effect relationships in some way. To support the development of tailored approaches that can answer such questions, we construct Webis-CausalQA-22, a benchmark corpus of 1.1 million causal questions with answers. We distinguish different types of causal questions using a novel typ...
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We present the first dataset and evaluation results on a newly defined computational task of trigger warning assignment. Labeled corpus data has been compiled from narrative works hosted on Archive of Our Own (AO3), a well-known fanfiction site. In this paper, we focus on the most frequently assigned trigger type--violence--and define a document-le...
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The paper gives a brief overview of three shared tasks which have been organized at the PAN 2022 lab on digital text forensics and stylometry hosted at the CLEF 2022 conference. The tasks include authorship verification across discourse types, multi-author writing style analysis and author profiling. Some of the tasks continue and advance past edit...
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The paper gives a brief overview of the four shared tasks to be organized at the PAN 2022 lab on digital text forensics and stylometry hosted at the CLEF 2022 conference. The tasks include authorship verification across discourse types, multi-author writing style analysis, author profiling, and content profiling. Some of the tasks continue and adva...
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The paper gives a brief overview of the three shared tasks organized at the PAN 2021 lab on digital text forensics and stylometry hosted at the CLEF conference. The tasks include authorship verification across domains, author profiling for hate speech spreaders, and style change detection for multi-author documents. In part the tasks are new and in...
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The paper gives a brief overview of the three shared tasks to be organized at the PAN 2021 lab on digital text forensics and stylometry hosted at the CLEF conference. The tasks include authorship verification across domains, author profiling for hate speech spreaders, and style change detection for multi-author documents. In part the tasks are new...
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Both linguistic and arithmetic task characteristics contribute to the difficulty of a word problem. However, the role of these characteristics and the exact cognitive processes underlying arithmetic word problems are often not clear, but they might be detectable by analysing eye-movement patterns. Not much is known about how eye-movements change un...
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Performance on word problems is influenced by linguistic and arithmetic factors, and by their interaction. To study these factors and interactions, we manipulated linguistic and arithmetic factors independently in a within-participant design that included complexity parameters (a) in the domain of arithmetic: carry/borrow (no-carry/borrow vs. carry...
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Automated scoring systems which evaluate content require robust ways of dealing with form errors. The work presented in this paper is set in the context of scoring learners' responses to listening comprehension items included in a placement test of German as a foreign language. Based on a corpus of over 3000 responses to 17 questions, by test taker...
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Word problems (WPs) belong to the most difficult and complex problem types that pupils encounter during their elementary-level mathematical development. In the classroom setting, they are often viewed as merely arithmetic tasks; however, recent research shows that a number of linguistic verbal components not directly related to arithmetic contribut...
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https://publikationen.sulb.uni-saarland.de/bitstream/20.500.11880/30854/1/wolskamathematicalProofskomplette.pdf#page=4
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We present an extrinsic evaluation of a clustering-based approach to computer-assisted scoring of short constructed response items, as encountered in educational assessment. Due to their open-ended nature, constructed response items need to be graded by human readers, which makes the overall testing process costly and time-consuming. In this paper...
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In this paper we investigate the potential of answer clustering for semi-automatic scoring of short answer questions for German as a foreign language. We use surface features like word and character n-grams to cluster answers to listening comprehension exercises per question and simulate having human graders only label one answer per cluster and th...
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This study presents the results of a large-scale comparison of various measures of pitch range and pitch variation in two Slavic (Bulgarian and Polish) and two Germanic (German and British English) languages. The productions of twenty-two speakers per language (eleven male and eleven female) in two different tasks (read passages and number sets) ar...
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http://universaar.uni-saarland.de/monographien/volltexte/2015/111/pdf/wolska_mathematicalProofs_komplett_e.pdf Truth and proof are central to mathematics. Proving (or disproving) seemingly simple statements often turns out to be one of the hardest mathematical tasks. Yet, doing proofs is rarely taught in the classroom. Studies on cognitive difficu...
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A concept rater module is utilized to automatically grade or score constructed responses based on a model answer. The concept rater module may be configured to accept a model answer as input. The model answer may be used as a grading key by the concept rater module. The concept rater module may be further configured to accept student responses in a...
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A Bulgarian and a German sentence were presented to Bulgarian and German listeners together with a question which either ex¬pec¬¬ted an early narrow focus or a late narrow focus. The answering sentences were manipulated so that the word in the late-focused position ranged from completely de-accented to strongly accented. The early focused position...
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The paper reports on a comparative study of two approaches to extracting definitional sentences from a corpus of scholarly discourse: one based on bootstrapping lexico-syntactic patterns and another based on deep analysis. Computational Linguistics was used as the target domain and the ACL Anthology as the corpus. Definitional sentences extracted f...
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We describe a novel approach to precise searching in the full content of digital libraries. The Searchbench (for search workbench) is based on sentence-wise syntactic and semantic natural language processing (NLP) of both born-digital and scanned publications in PDF format. The term born-digital means natively digital, i.e. prepared electronically...
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We present a method for determining the context-dependent denotation of simple object-denoting mathematical expressions in mathematical documents. Our approach relies on estimating the similarity between the linguistic context within which the given expression occurs and a set of terms from a flat domain taxonomy of mathematical concepts; one of 7...
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We present a dialogue system for exercising the German subordinate clause word order. The pedagogical methodology we adopt is based on focused tasks: the targeted linguistic structure is embedded in a naturalistic scenario, “Making appointments”, in which the structure can be plausibly elicited. We report on the system we built and an experimental...
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Formal domains, such as mathematics, require exact language to communicate the intended content. Special symbolic notations are used to express the semantics precisely, compactly, and unambiguously. Mathematical textbooks offer plenty of examples of concise, accurate presentations. This effective communication is enabled by interleaved use of formu...
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We present three corpus-based studies on symbol declaration in mathematical writing. We focus on simple object denoting symbols which may be part of larger expressions. We look into whether the symbols are explicitly introduced into the discourse and whether the information on once interpreted symbols can be used to interpret structurally related s...
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We present a preliminary study on disambiguation of symbolic expressions in mathematical documents. We propose to use the natural language within which the expressions are embedded to resolve their semantics. The approach is based on establishing a similarity between the expression’s discourse context and a set of terms from Term Clusters based on...
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In this paper we present a taxonomy of dialogue moves which describe the actions performed by participants in task-oriented dialogue. Our work is motivated by the need for a categorisation of such actions in order to develop computational models for tutorial dialogue. As such, we build on both existing work on dialogue move categorisation for the t...
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In this paper we present a taxonomy of di- alogue moves which describe the actions that students and tutors perform in tutorial dialogue. We are motivated by the need for a categorisation of such actions in order to develop computational models for tutorial dialogue. As such, we build both on exist- ing work on dialogue move categorisation for tuto...
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We present a modular architecture for processing informal mathematical language as found in textbooks and mathematical publica- tions. We point at its properties relevant in addressing three aspects of informal mathematical discourse: (i) the interleaved symbolic and natu- ral language, (ii) the linguistic, domain, and notational context, and (iii)...
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Pedagogically motivated analyses of tutorial dialogue have identified recurring local se- quences of exchanges which we propose to be analysed analogously to grounding structures. In this paper, we present a model describing such local structures in which a learner and a tutor collaboratively contribute to building a solution to a task. Such struct...
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Teaching problem-solving in formal domains aims at two purposes: 1) increasing the students' skill in addressing the problem in a goal-oriented way, and 2) increasing their competence in expressing themselves formally. In a dialog, suitable tutoring strategies addressing both issues may be quite delicate, especially when meeting formally inaccurate...
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In order to avoid miscommunication par- ticipants in dialogue continuously attempt to align their mutual knowledge (the "common ground"). A setting that is per- haps most prone to misalignment is tu- toring. We propose a model of common ground in tutoring dialogues which explic- itly models the truth and falsity of do- main level contributions and...
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Dialogs in formal domains, such as mathematics, are characterized by a mixture of telegraphic natural language text and embedded formal expressions. Analysis methods for this kind of setting are rare and require empirical justification due to a notorious lack of data, as opposed to the richness of presentations found in genre-specific textbooks. In...
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In tutorial systems, effective progress in teaching the problem-solving target is frequently hindered by expressive sloppiness and low-level errors made by the student, especially in conventionalized expressions such as formulas. In order to improve the effectiveness of tutorial systems in teaching higher-level skills, we present a fault-tolerant f...
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We present DiaWOz-II, a configurable software environment for Wizard-of-Oz studies in mathematics and engineering. Its interface is based on a structuralwysiwyg editor which allows the input of com- plex mathematical formulae. This allows the collection of dialog corpora consisting of natural language interleaved with non-trivial mathemati- cal exp...
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Successful participation in dialogue as well as understanding written text requires, among others, interpretation of specifications implicitly conveyed through parallel structures. While those whose reconstruction requires insertion of a missing element, such as gapping and ellipsis, have been addressed to a certain extent by computational approach...
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Successful participation in dialogue as well as understanding written text requires, among others, interpretation of specifications implicitly conveyed through parallel structures. While those whose reconstruction requires insertion of a missing element, such as gapping and ellipsis, have been addressed to a certain extent by computational approach...
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Successful participation in task-oriented, inference-rich dialogs requires, among other things, understanding of specifications implicitly conveyed through the exploitation of parallel structures. Several linguistic operators create specifications of this kind, including “the other way (a)round”, “vice-versa”, and “analogously”; unfortunately, auto...
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Natural language interaction between a student and an assis-tance system for mathematics is a new multi-disciplinary challenge that requires the interaction of (i) advanced natural language processing, (ii) flexible tutorial dialog strategies including hints, and (iii) mathematical domain reasoning. Although each of these fields o ers substantial s...
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We present a fault-tolerant formula interpreter that aims at finding plausibly intended, formally correct and contextually meaningful specifications from user statements containing formal inaccuracies. 1 Motivation Strong efforts are invested in supporting scientific publica- tion environments in formal areas such as mathematics, with powerful tool...
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We present a fault-tolerant formula interpreter that aims at finding plausibly intended, formally correct specifications from student statements containing formal inaccuracies. Its methods comprise local changes based on error categories, fault-tolerant structure building, and testing contextually-motivated alternations.
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Until recently, rigid and sometimes cumber-some structures, which underly dialog pat-terns considered manageable for achieving a given task in a controlled manner, proved to be a serious weakness of interactive sys-tems. Through the introduction of the in-formation state as a representation to con-trol the evolving state of a dialog, substan-tial i...
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Discourse in formal domains, such as mathe- matics, is characterized by a mixture of tele- graphic natural language and embedded formal expressions. Little is known about the suitabil- ity of input analysis methods for mathematical discourse in a dialog setting, due to the lack of empirical data. In this paper, we report on the development of a dep...
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Discourse in formal domains, such as mathematics, is characterized by a mixture of telegraphic natu-ral language and embedded (semi-)formal symbolic mathematical expressions. Due to the lack of em-pirical data, little is known about the suitability of input analysis methods for mathematical discourse in a dialog setting. We present an input underst...
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Discourse in formal domains, such as mathematics, is characterized by a mixture of telegraphic natural language and embedded (semi-)formal symbolic mathematical expressions. We present language phenomena observed in a corpus of dialogs with a simulated tutorial system for proving theorems as evidence for the need for deep syntactic and semantic ana...
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Dialogs in formal domains, such as mathematics, are characterized by a mixture of telegraphic natural language text and embedded formal expressions. Analysis methods for this kind of setting are rare and require empirical justification due to a notorious lack of data, as opposed to the richness of presentations found in genre-specific textbooks. In...
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Automated essay scoring is now an established capability used from elementary school through graduate school for purposes of instruction and assessment. Newer applications provide automated diagnostic feedback about student writing. Feedback includes errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics, comments about writing style, and evaluation of discourse...
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Dialogs in formal domains, such as mathematics, are characterized by a mixture of tele- graphic natural language text and embedded formal expressions. Due to the lack of empirical data for such environments, we have collected a corpus of dialogs with a simulated tutoring system for teaching proofs in naive set theory. The analysis of this corpus en...
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We report on a preliminary study which investigated the effect of form vs. meaning focused computer-based type-written ac-tivities on spoken communicative skills of learners of German. Both types of activities were realized as written interactions with a computer-based dialogue system and were framed within a "Directions giving" scenario. The lingu...

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