🧑‍🔬 Ekaterina Kochmar

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial IntelligenceAbu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates2022–2026 · 43 papersEmployment 2023–2026 · Assistant Professor, Natural Language Processing Departmentcurrent🎓Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu KielKiel · Germany2026 · 1 papercurrent🔬Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics EducationKiel · Germany2026 · 1 papercurrent🎓Ruhr University BochumBochum · Germany2026 · 1 papercurrent🎓University of VictoriaVictoria · Canada2026 · 1 paperEmployment since 2026 · Associate Professor, Department of Computer Sciencecurrent🎓University of CambridgeCambridge · United Kingdom2010–2021 · 23 papersEducation 2010–2011 · MPhil in Advanced Computer Science, Computer LaboratoryEducation 2011–2016 · PhD, Computer Science and TechnologyEmployment 2014–2018 · Research Associate, Computer LaboratoryEmployment 2018–2021 · Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and TechnologyEmployment 2018–2021 · Senior Research Associate, Department of Computer Science and Technology🎓University of BathBath · United Kingdom2021–2023 · 11 papersEmployment until 2023Employment 2021–2023 · Lecturer, Department of Computer Science🎓Zayed UniversityAbu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates2024–2025 · 2 papers🎓National UniversityManila · Philippines2023 · 2 papers

🏛️University of TuebingenTuebingen · Germany2008–2010Education 2008–2010 · MA in Computational Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📅 Works by year

2020s

2010s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. Text Readability Assessment for Second Language Learners (2016 · 222 citations)
   The paper addresses automatic readability grading for learners of English as a second language. The main obstacle is that almost all level-annotated corpora target native-speaking children, and their levels reflect native criteria. The authors build a small CEFR-graded set of reading passages from Cambridge English…
2. ‘Calling on the classical phone': a distributional model of adjective-noun errors in learners' English (2016 · 5 citations)
   The paper tackles detecting wrong adjective choices in English written by learners, where an adjective is misused in its context of use (e.g.
3. AITutor-EvalKit: Exploring the Capabilities of AI Tutors (2026 · 2 citations)
   AITutor-EvalKit is an open-source toolkit for judging the pedagogical quality of LLM-based tutors. Educators currently struggle to trust these systems, partly because no tool assesses tutor responses on the fly. The toolkit targets Student Mistake Remediation in middle-school math dialogues. It scores a tutor's reply…
4. Opportunities and Challenges of LLMs in Education: An NLP Perspective (2026)
   This position-and-survey paper looks at how large language models are changing educational NLP. Earlier overviews were mostly aimed at education-technology readers or covered only narrow areas such as writing assessment. The authors instead write for NLP researchers and tie recent LLM work back to older lines of NLP…

All works

15 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. Text Readability Assessment for Second Language LearnersWorkshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)Menglin Xia, Ekaterina Kochmar, Ted Briscoe2016 · 222 citations
2. Automated Personalized Feedback Improves Learning Gains in An Intelligent Tutoring System ↗Lecture Notes in Computer Science · no summary yetEkaterina Kochmar et al.2020 · 105 citations
3. Unifying AI Tutor Evaluation: An Evaluation Taxonomy for Pedagogical Ability Assessment of LLM-Powered AI Tutors ↗Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yetKaushal Kumar Maurya et al.2025 · 53 citations
4. The BEA 2023 Shared Task on Generating AI Teacher Responses in Educational Dialogues ↗Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023) · no summary yetAnaïs Tack et al.2023 · 51 citations
5. Recursive Context-Aware Lexical Simplification ↗Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP) · no summary yetSian Gooding, Ekaterina Kochmar2019 · 45 citations
6. Findings of the BEA 2025 Shared Task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors ↗Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2025) · no summary yetEkaterina Kochmar et al.2025 · 36 citations
7. What Makes Math Word Problems Challenging for LLMs? ↗Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024 · no summary yetKv Aditya Srivatsa, Ekaterina Kochmar2024 · 26 citations
8. REFeREE: A REference-FREE Model-Based Metric for Text Simplification ↗Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) · no summary yetYichen Huang, Ekaterina Kochmar2024 · 10 citations
9. ‘Calling on the classical phone': a distributional model of adjective-noun errors in learners' EnglishInternational Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)Aurélie Herbelot, Ekaterina Kochmar2016 · 5 citations
10. AITutor-EvalKit: Exploring the Capabilities of AI TutorsConference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)Numaan Naeem, Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Kseniia Petukhova, et al.2026 · 2 citations
11. Cross-Lingual Lexico-Semantic Transfer in Language Learning ↗Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yetEkaterina Kochmar, Ekaterina Shutova2016 · 2 citations
12. Towards Reward Modeling for AI Tutors in Math Mistake Remediation ↗Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yetKseniia Petukhova, Ekaterina Kochmar2026 · 1 citation
13. Opportunities and Challenges of LLMs in Education: An NLP PerspectiveWorkshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)Sowmya Vajjala, Bashar Alhafni, Stefano Banno, et al.2026
14. ComplexityMT: Benchmarking the Interaction Between Text Complexity and Machine Translation ↗arXiv:2606.05421 · no summary yetJoseph Marvin Imperial et al.2026
15. Towards Pedagogically Aligned LLM Tutors for Math Mistake Remediation ↗Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2026) · no summary yetKseniia Petukhova, Tien Dat Nguyen, Ekaterina Kochmar2026

🤝 Co-authors here

8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Kaushal Kumar Maurya ×2
• Aurélie Herbelot
• Bashar Alhafni
• Menglin Xia
• Numaan Naeem
• Sowmya Vajjala
• Stefano Banno
• Ted Briscoe

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA) ×5: BEA 2026, BEA 2016
• International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING): COLING 2016
• Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL): EACL 2026
• Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
• Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
• Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)
• Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
• Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

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Papers of our library cite their works 253 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 32 citing papers with a page here →.

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