SwissText 2024: Torsten Zesch (Fernuniversität Hagen) on "Computational linguistics"

Recording of Torsten Zesch's keynote at the 9th SwissText Conference in Chur, Switzerland on "Computational linguistics".

About SwissText: The Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) is an annual conference in Switzerland that brings together experts from industry and academia in the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics and Text Analytics. LINK: https://www.swisstext.org

Giving feedback on free-text answers (in the form of grades or helpful hints) is a core educational task. Despite a large body of research on the topic, assisting teachers with this task remains challenging. In this talk, we outline the linguistic and external factors influencing the performance level that NLP methods may reach for a given question. However, even in settings where automatic performance rivals humans, there are various practical requirements often overlooked in research that hinder adoption in the classroom.