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 |