🧑‍🔬 Torsten Zesch

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓FernUniversität in HagenHagen · Germany2022–2026 · 41 paperscurrent🎓University of Duisburg-EssenEssen · Germany2014–2021 · 63 papers🎓Technische Universität DarmstadtDarmstadt · Germany2006–2015 · 35 papers🔬DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in EducationFrankfurt am Main · Germany2012–2014 · 3 papers

🏛️FernUniversitat in Hagen Fakultät für Mathematik und InformatikHagen · Germany2022Employment since 2022 · Forschungsprofessor, CATALPA

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution 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

2010s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. UKP: Computing Semantic Textual Similarity by Combining Multiple Content Similarity Measures (2012 · 277 citations)
   The paper describes the system UKP submitted to SemEval-2012's pilot task on Semantic Textual Similarity (STS).
2. The Role of Diacritics in Increasing the Difficulty of Arabic Lexical Recognition Tests (2018 · 6 citations)
   Arabic lexical recognition tests (LRTs) estimate learner vocabulary size by asking which items are real words.

All works

14 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. UKP: Computing Semantic Textual Similarity by Combining Multiple Content Similarity MeasuresJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Daniel Bär, Chris Biemann, Iryna Gurevych, et al.2012 · 277 citations
2. Investigating neural architectures for short answer scoring ↗Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications · no summary yetBrian Riordan et al.2017 · 175 citations
3. Comparing Wikipedia and German Wordnet by Evaluating Semantic Relatedness on Multiple Datasets ↗Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Companion Volume, Short Papers · no summary yetTorsten Zesch, Iryna Gurevych, Max Mühlhäuser2007 · 63 citations
4. Recognizing Partial Textual Entailment ↗Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yetOmer Levy et al.2013 · 56 citations
5. A Legal Approach to Hate Speech – Operationalizing the EU's Legal Framework against the Expression of Hatred as an NLP Task ↗Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2022 · no summary yetFrederike Zufall et al.2022 · 23 citations
6. From legal to technical concept: Towards an automated classification of German political Twitter postings as criminal offenses ↗Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers) · no summary yetFrederike Zufall, Tobias Horsmann, Torsten Zesch2019 · 8 citations
7. UKP-BIU: Similarity and Entailment Metrics for Student Response Analysis ↗Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 2: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2013) · no summary yetOmer Levy et al.2013 · 8 citations
8. Decomposing and Comparing Meaning Relations: Paraphrasing, Textual Entailment, Contradiction, and Specificity ↗Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yetVenelin Kovatchev et al.2020 · 7 citations
9. The Role of Diacritics in Increasing the Difficulty of Arabic Lexical Recognition TestsWorkshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language LearningOsama Hamed, Torsten Zesch2018 · 6 citations
10. Detecting Malapropisms Using Measures of Contextual Fitness ↗Trait. Autom. des Langues · no summary yetZesch, Torsten2012 · 3 citations
11. Evaluating Automatic Spelling Correction Tools on German Primary School Children's Misspellings ↗Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning · no summary yetRonja Laarmann-Quante, Lisa Prepens, Torsten Zesch2022 · 2 citations
12. Conditioning Large Language Models on Legal Systems? Detecting Punishable Hate Speech ↗Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2025): Long and Short Papers · no summary yetFlorian Ludwig, Torsten Zesch, Frederike Zufall2025 · 1 citation
13. Every Verb in Its Right Place? A Roadmap for Operationalizing Developmental Stages in the Acquisition of L2 German ↗Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) · no summary yetJosef Ruppenhofer et al.2024 · 1 citation
14. The Joint Student Response Analysis and 8th Recognizing ↗no summary yetTorsten Zesch et al.2013

🤝 Co-authors here

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

• Chris Biemann
• Iryna Gurevych
• Osama Hamed

Venues

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

• Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning: Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning 2018
• Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM): *SEM 2012
• Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Companion Volume, Short Papers
• Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning
• Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
• Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)
• Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
• Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2025): Long and Short Papers
• Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
• Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2022
• Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
• Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 2: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2013)

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 163 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 16 citing papers with a page here →.

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