Dr. Torsten Kai Jachmann

Work Experience


2020 - now Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Postdoc), Language Science and Technology, Psycholinguistics Group, Saarland University, SFB1102, Information Density and Linguistic Encoding, Project C3

2015 - 2020 Doctoral Researcher, MMCI, Cluster of Excellence (till 2018), SFB1102, Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (since 2018)

2014 - 2015 Research Assistant, Psycholinguistics Group, Saarland University, Experiment execution (ERP) and stimulus creation.

2013 - 2015 Research Assistant, Embodied Spoken Interaction, MMCI, Saarland University, Experiment execution (Reaction Time, ERP) and stimulus creation.

2013 - 2015 Free-lancer, acrolinx, Berlin, Editing-rule creation and testing, evaluation.

2013 - 2015 Language Teacher, Volkshochschule, Sulzbach(Saar), Japanese teacher for the levels A1 and A2.


Education


2015 - 2020 Ph.D. Candidate at Saarland University (UdS), Psycholinguistics, MMCI, Cluster of Excellence (till 2018), SFB1102, Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (since 2018).

Dissertation title: "The Immediate Influence of Speaker Gaze on Situated Speech Comprehension: Evidence from Multiple ERP Components"

Final grade: magna cum laude (1.0)

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Matthew W. Crocker

Advisor: Dr. Maria Staudte and Dr. Heiner Drenhaus


2013 - 2015 M.Sc. in Language Science and Technology, Saarland University (UdS).

Thesis title: "On Universality of Prosody as a Turn-Taking Cue Across Languages".

Final grade: 1.3

Supervisors: Dr. Maria Staudte and Dr. Chiara Gambi


2008 - 2013 B.Sc. in Computational Linguistics, Saarland University (UdS).

Thesis title: "Exploring Domain Adaptation in Machine Translation for English to Japanese"

Final grade: 1.6

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit and Dr. Robert Grabowski

Advisor: Yu Chen