Karin Harbusch


2022

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A text-writing system for Easy-to-Read German evaluated with low-literate users with cognitive impairment
Ina Steinmetz | Karin Harbusch
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants (In2Writing 2022)

Low-literate users with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) and/or complex communication needs (CCN) require specific writing support. We present a system that interactively supports fast and correct writing of a variant of Leichte Sprache (LS; German term for easy-to-read German), slightly extended within and beyond the inner-sentential syntactic level. The system provides simple and intuitive dialogues for selecting options from a natural-language paraphrase generator. Moreover, it reminds the user to add text elements enhancing understandability, audience design, and text coherence. In earlier development phases, the system was evaluated with different groups of substitute users. Here, we report a case study with seven low-literate users with IDD.

2020

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Enabling fast and correct typing in ‘Leichte Sprache’ (Easy Language)
Ina Steinmetz | Karin Harbusch
Proceedings of the Fourth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop

Simplified languages are instruments for inclusion aiming to overcome language barriers. Leichte Sprache (LS), for instance, is a variety of German with reduced complexity (cf. Basic English). So far, LS is mainly provided for, but rarely written by, its target groups, e.g. people with cognitive impairments. One reason may be the lack of technical support during the process from message conceptualization to sentence realization. In the following, we present a system for assisted typing in LS whose accuracy and speed is largely due to the deployment of real time natural-language processing enabling efficient prediction and context-sensitive grammar support.

2015

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Distinctive Similarity of Clausal Coordinate Ellipsis in Russian Compared to Dutch, Estonian, German, and Hungarian
Karin Harbusch | Denis Krusko
The 5th Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing

2009

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Generating Clausal Coordinate Ellipsis Multilingually: A Uniform Approach Based on Postediting
Karin Harbusch | Gerard Kempen
Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2009)

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A Comparison of Clausal Coordinate Ellipsis in Estonian and German: Remarkably Similar Elision Rules Allow a Language-Independent Ellipsis-Generation Module
Karin Harbusch | Mare Koit | Haldur Õim
Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session at EACL 2009

2007

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Interactive sentence combining and paraphrasing in support of integrated writing and grammar instruction: A new application area for natural language sentence generators
Karin Harbusch | Camiel van Breugel | Ulrich Koch | Gerard Kempen
Proceedings of the Eleventh European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 07)

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Clausal Coordinate Ellipsis in German: The TIGER Treebank as a Source of Evidence
Karin Harbusch | Gerard Kempen
Proceedings of the 16th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2007)

2006

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ELLEIPO: A Module that Computes Coordinative Ellipsis for Generators that Don’t
Karin Harbusch | Gerard Kempen
Demonstrations

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A Generation-Oriented Workbench for Performance Grammar: Capturing Linear Order Variability in German and Dutch
Karin Harbusch | Gerard Kempen | Camiel van Breugel | Ulrich Koch
Proceedings of the Fourth International Natural Language Generation Conference

2004

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N-Best Hidden Markov Model Supertagging to Improve Typing on an Ambiguous Keyboard
Saša Hasan | Karin Harbusch
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms

2003

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Domain-Specific Disambiguation for Typing with Ambiguous Keyboards
Karin Harbusch | Sasa Hasan | Hajo Hoffmann | Michael Kühn | Bernhard Schüler
Proceedings of the 2003 EACL Workshop on Language Modeling for Text Entry Methods

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Towards an Adaptive Communication Aid with Ambiguous Text Input
Karin Harbusch | Michael Kühn
Demonstrations

2002

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A Quantitative Model of Word Order and Movement in English, Dutch and German Complement Constructions
Karin Harbusch | Gerard Kempen
COLING 2002: The 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

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Hidden Markov model-based supertagging in a user-initiative dialogue system
Jens Bäcker | Karin Harbusch
Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Frameworks (TAG+6)

2000

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Complexity of Linear Order Computation in Performance Grammar, TAG and HPSG
Karin Harbusch | Gerard Kempen
Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Frameworks (TAG+5)

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Reuse of plan-based knowledge sources in a uniform TAG-based generation system
Karin Harbusch | Jens Woch
Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Frameworks (TAG+5)

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Direct Parsing of Schema-TAGs
Karin Harbusch | Jens Woch
Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies

1998

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Towards a workbench for schema-TAGs
Karin Harbusch | Friedbert Widmann | Jens Woch
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks (TAG+4)

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A ‘Tree Adjoining’ Grammar without adjoining: The case of scrambling in German
Gerard Kempen | Karin Harbusch
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks (TAG+4)

1997

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How to solve the conflict of structure-preserving translation and fluent text production
Karin Harbusch
Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages

1994

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Default Handling in Incremental Generation
Karin Harbusch | Gen-ichiro Kikui | Anne Kilger
COLING 1994 Volume 1: The 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1990

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Constraining Tree Adjoining Grammars by Unification
Karin Harbusch
COLING 1990 Volume 2: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

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Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Frameworks (TAG+1)
Karin Harbusch | Wolfgang Wahlster
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Frameworks (TAG+1)

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TAGs with Unification
Bela Buschauer | Peter Poller | Anne Schauder | Karin Harbusch
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Frameworks (TAG+1)

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An Efficient Parsing Algorithm for Tree Adjoining Grammars
Karin Harbusch
28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1986

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Combining Deictic Gestures and Natural Language for Referent Identification
Alfred Kobsa | Jurgen Allgayer | Carola Reddig | Norbert Reithinger | Dagmar Schmauks | Karin Harbusch | Wolfgang Wahlster
Coling 1986 Volume 1: The 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics