--- title: "Torsten Zesch — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Torsten Zesch, FernUniversität in Hagen: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2012–2018), h-index 31 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/torsten-zesch/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/torsten-zesch/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Torsten Zesch # Torsten Zesch Torsten Zesch has 2 papers in our library, in 2012–2018, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Chris Biemann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-biemann/), [Iryna Gurevych](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iryna-gurevych/), [Osama Hamed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osama-hamed/). 2 papers in our library · 2012–2018 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5072459546) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9678-3825) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130864940) · [**h-index 31**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5072459546) · [225 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5072459546) · [3,199 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5072459546&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/torsten-zesch/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 163 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/torsten-zesch/cited-by/) · [12 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5081](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/51/#star-5081) 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=Torsten+Zesch) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Torsten+Zesch) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Torsten+Zesch) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Torsten+Zesch) ## Affiliations [🎓**FernUniversität in Hagen** Hagen · Germany 2022–2026 · 41 papers*current*](https://ror.org/04tkkr536) · [🎓**University of Duisburg-Essen** Essen · Germany 2014–2021 · 63 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-duisburg-essen/) · [🎓**Technische Universität Darmstadt** Darmstadt · Germany 2006–2015 · 35 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technische-universitat-darmstadt/) · [🔬**DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education** Frankfurt am Main · Germany 2012–2014 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/dipf-leibniz-institute-for-research-and-information-in-education/) 🏛️**FernUniversitat in Hagen Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik** Hagen · [Germany](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/germany/) 2022Employment 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. 📚 Shelves 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Developmental and Educational Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/developmental-and-educational-psychology/) · [Education · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/education/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Semantic similarity · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/semantic-similarity/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/torsten-zesch/year/2018/) · [**2012** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/torsten-zesch/year/2012/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[UKP: Computing Semantic Textual Similarity by Combining Multiple Content Similarity Measures](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bar-2012-ukp-computing-semantic-textual-similarity/)** *(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](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hamed-2018-role-diacritics-increasing-difficulty-arabic/)** *(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 Measures](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bar-2012-ukp-computing-semantic-textual-similarity/) [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/)**Daniel Bär, Chris Biemann, Iryna Gurevych, et al.*2012 · 277 citations* 2. **[Investigating neural architectures for short answer scoring ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5017/) Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications · no summary yet**Brian Riordan et al.*2017 · 175 citations* 3. **[Comparing Wikipedia and German Wordnet by Evaluating Semantic Relatedness on Multiple Datasets ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N07-2052/) Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Companion Volume, Short Papers · no summary yet**Torsten Zesch, Iryna Gurevych, Max Mühlhäuser*2007 · 63 citations* 4. **[Recognizing Partial Textual Entailment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P13-2080/) Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yet**Omer 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 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.5/) Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2022 · no summary yet**Frederike Zufall et al.*2022 · 23 citations* 6. **[From legal to technical concept: Towards an automated classification of German political Twitter postings as criminal offenses ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N19-1135/) 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 yet**Frederike Zufall, Tobias Horsmann, Torsten Zesch*2019 · 8 citations* 7. **[UKP-BIU: Similarity and Entailment Metrics for Student Response Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S13-2048/) Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 2: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2013) · no summary yet**Omer Levy et al.*2013 · 8 citations* 8. **[Decomposing and Comparing Meaning Relations: Paraphrasing, Textual Entailment, Contradiction, and Specificity ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.709/) Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yet**Venelin Kovatchev et al.*2020 · 7 citations* 9. **[The Role of Diacritics in Increasing the Difficulty of Arabic Lexical Recognition Tests](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hamed-2018-role-diacritics-increasing-difficulty-arabic/) [Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4call/)**Osama Hamed, Torsten Zesch*2018 · 6 citations* 10. **[Detecting Malapropisms Using Measures of Contextual Fitness ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2012.tal-3.2/) Trait. Autom. des Langues · no summary yet**Zesch, Torsten*2012 · 3 citations* 11. **[Evaluating Automatic Spelling Correction Tools on German Primary School Children's Misspellings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nlp4call-1.10/) Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning · no summary yet**Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Lisa Prepens, Torsten Zesch*2022 · 2 citations* 12. **[Conditioning Large Language Models on Legal Systems? Detecting Punishable Hate Speech ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.konvens-1.14/) Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2025): Long and Short Papers · no summary yet**Florian Ludwig, Torsten Zesch, Frederike Zufall*2025 · 1 citation* 13. **[Every Verb in Its Right Place? A Roadmap for Operationalizing Developmental Stages in the Acquisition of L2 German ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.589/) Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) · no summary yet**Josef Ruppenhofer et al.*2024 · 1 citation* 14. **[The Joint Student Response Analysis and 8th Recognizing ↗](https://openalex.org/W7100516286) no summary yet**Torsten Zesch et al.*2013* ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chris Biemann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-biemann/) - [Iryna Gurevych](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iryna-gurevych/) - [Osama Hamed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/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](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4call/): [Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4call/2018/) - [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/): [*SEM 2012](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/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 →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/torsten-zesch/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026