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Department of Computational Linguistics Digital Linguistics

Jan Brasser

Jan Brasser, M.A.

  • PhD candidate
  • Digital Linguistics
Room number
AND 2.50

I am a second-year PhD candidate in Computational Linguistics, supervised by Prof. Dr. Lena A. Jäger. I have a Bachelor's degree in English Literature and Linguistics and a Master's degree in Linguistics with focus area Digital Linguistics from the UZH. In my Master's Thesis, I used Eye-Movement data from readers reading in a foreign language to train a language model to predict the readers' second language skills.

My main interests lie in first and second language acquisition, specifically reading skill development. My current main projects are "Lesen im Blick": Eye-tracking based diagnosis of developmental language disorders, in which we investigate the relationships between eye-movments and the development of reading disorders in children, and "Language Models for Reading Comprehension Questions", in which we investigate how to leverage large language models to support the creation and assessment process of reading comprehension questions for education and research.

 

Teaching

Spring Semester 2025:

Programming Techniques in Computational Linguistics 2 - Lecture

Autumn Semester 2024:

Introduction to Language Data Processing - Lecture

Autumn Semester 2023:

Introduction to Language Data Processing - Tutorial

Spring Semester 2023:

Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit - Tutorial

Autumn Semester 2022:

Language Data Processing - Tutorial

Spring Semester 2022:

Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit - Tutorial

Eye tracking: Experiment design and machine learning methods -Tutorial

Autumn Semester 2021:

Quantitative Methods - Tutorial

Publications

Predicting Children’s Reading Comprehension Through Eye Movements: Insights from Visual Search and Interpretable Machine Learning,  ETRA 2025
Jan Brasser, Chiara Tschirner, Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz, Deborah N. Jakobi, Lena A. Jäger

New data on text reading in English as a second language,  Studies in Second Language Acquisition
Victor Kuperman, Sascha Schroeder, Cengiz Acartürk, Niket Agrawal, Dominick M. Alexandre, Lena S. Bolliger, Jan Brasser, César Campos-Rojas, Denis Drieghe, Dušica Filipović Đurđević, Luiz Vinicius Gadelha de Freitas, Sofya Goldina, Romualdo Ibáñez Orellana, Lena A. Jäger, Ómar I. Jóhannesson, Anurag Khare, Nik Kharlamov, Hanne B. S. Knudsen, Árni Kristjánsson, Charlotte E. Lee, Jun Ren Lee, Marina P. T. Leite, Simona Mancini, Nataša Mihajlović, Ksenija Mišić, Miloslava Orekhova, Olga Parshina, Milica Popović Stijačić, Athanassios Protopapas, David R. Reich, Anurag Rimzhim, Rui Rothe-Neves, Thais M. M. Sá, Andrea Santana Covarrubias, Irina Sekerina, Heida M. Sigurdardottir, Anna Smirnova, Priyanka Srivastava, Elisangela N. Teixeira, Ivana Ugrinic, Kerem Alp Usal, Karolina Vakulya, João M. M. Vieira, Ark Verma, Denise H. Wu, Jin Xue, Sunčica Zdravković, Junjing Zhuo, Laoura Ziaka and Noam Siegelman
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