--- title: "Detmar Meurers — author profile and papers" description: "Detmar Meurers, Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2012–2024), h-index 36 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/detmar-meurers/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/detmar-meurers/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Detmar Meurers # Detmar Meurers 2 papers on this site · 2012–2024 current affiliation [Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien](https://ror.org/03hv28176), Tübingen, Germany; [University of Tübingen](https://ror.org/03a1kwz48), Tübingen, Germany Detmar Meurers has 2 papers on this site, in 2012–2024, most of them on [Text generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/), [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/), [Grammatical error correction & learner language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/grammatical-error-correction/); often with [Sowmya Vajjala](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sowmya-vajjala/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5000361724) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9740-7442) · [**h-index 36**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5000361724) · [351 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5000361724) · [4 114 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5000361724&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/detmar-meurers/#papers) · [340 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/detmar-meurers/cited-by/) · 17 more works in our library The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Detmar+Meurers) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Detmar+Meurers) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Detmar+Meurers) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Detmar+Meurers) ## Affiliations - [University of Tübingen](https://ror.org/03a1kwz48) · Tübingen, Germany —current · 1995–2026 on 127 papers · employment from 2008: Full Professor of Computational Linguistics (ORCID) - [Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien](https://ror.org/03hv28176) · Tübingen, Germany —current · 2024–2026 on 23 papers · employment from 2024: Group Leader, Language and AI in Education Research Group (ORCID) - [The Ohio State University](https://ror.org/00rs6vg23) · Columbus, United States —2001–2008 on 18 papers · employment 2001–2008: Assistant and Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics, Department of Linguistics (ORCID) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Text generation 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/) · [Grammatical error correction & learner language 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/grammatical-error-correction/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[On Improving the Accuracy of Readability Classification using Insights from Second Language Acquisition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vajjala-2012-improving-accuracy-readability-classification-insights/)** *(2012 · 311 citations)* The paper addresses automatic readability classification: assigning a school grade level to a text so that teachers, language learners and readers with special needs can find suitable material, for example through a language-aware search engine. 2. **[Towards Fine-Grained Pedagogical Control over English Grammar Complexity in Educational Text Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/glandorf-2024-fine-grained-pedagogical-control-over/)** *(2024 · 7 citations)* The paper asks whether language models can control English grammar for learners. It takes the 1,222 patterns of the English Grammar Profile, each placed at a CEFR level. GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 wrote positive examples and minimal-pair negatives for each pattern; a manual check found 87.1% (GPT-3.5) and 92.9% (GPT-4)… ## Also in our library 17 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Sowmya Vajjala](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sowmya-vajjala/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 340 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [10 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/detmar-meurers/cited-by/).