Dr. Ngoc Duyen Tanja Tu

Function

• Postdoctoral researcher in the Department Grammar

Task area

• Researcher in the project Sprachanfragen
• Researcher in the project (Semi-)Automatisierte thematische Textklassifikation

Board activities

• Executive board member of the association "DHd – Association for Digital Humanities in the German Speaking Areas"
• Co-spokesperson of the Leibniz PostDoc Network

Personal data

• October 2022: Research fellow at the Trier Center for Digital Humanities in the project "Zeta and company. Measures of Distinctiveness for Computational Literary Studies" (Project leader: Prof. Dr. Christof Schöch); funded by the "Young Researcher Visiting Programme" of the DFG Priority Programme "Computational Literary Studies"
• 2019-2022: Dissertation project in German Linguistics and Media Studies at the University of Mannheim with a work on "Eine korpuslinguistische Untersuchung zur lexikalischen Vielfalt von direkten und indirekten Redeeinleitern" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Engelberg, Prof. Dr. Carolin Müller-Spitzer)
• since February 2017: Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language
• 2014-2016: Students assistant at the Chair of Psychology of Education, University of Mannheim in the DFG-funded project "Lernen mit Animationen im Vergleich zu Standbildern: Extrahieren vs. Inferieren von Informationen über dynamische Zusammenhänge"
• 2011-2017: German Studies and Computer Science at the University of Mannheim (degree: 1. Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Gymnasien)

Research interests

• (Quantitative) corpus linguistics
• Large Language Models
• Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing

Award

• Thierry Declerck Prize (Best paper award) for the paper "Making Non-Normalized Content Retrievable – A Tagging Pipeline for a Corpus of Expert–Layperson Texts"