Eduard Schaf

Development of Visual Input Enhancement of the Web (VIEW) for Russian: - Migration of the Log-in process from OpenID, then Google Sign-In, then Identity Toolkit and Firebase Authentication - Automatically generated exercises for verbal aspect and participles with morphological analysis - Reading Assistant which provides information on a word in a sidebar. Part of the information is, in which spot of the paradigm the word is located and a history of words already seen. - Maintenance and bug fixing

Department: BI Software Development Activity: - Acquisition of the "Annotation Query Language (AQL)" - Collection of data from Russian social media - Semi-automatic part-of-speech tagging of Russian texts with the General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) and MyStem from Yandex - Training of a Hidden Markov Model Tagger (HMM-Tagger) with help of the annotated data

Thesis Title: "Automatic Visual Input Enhancement for Russian with Intelligent Feedback" A revision and extension of VIEW in collaboration with Aleksandar Dimitrov. - Add-on rewrite - Integration of an intelligent feedback module - Visualization of stored user data

Thesis Title: "Visual input enhancement of Russian web pages with Helsinki Finite-State Transducer Technology" Expand VIEW with Russian topics in collaboration with Robert Reynolds. The topics address the biggest problems during the acquisition of the language.