Tübingen Center for Digital Education

Martí Quixal

Dr. Martí Quixal is a research associate at TüCeDE. His position is funded by the project "Center for Digitization-Related Networking and Transfer in School Education, Subproject Eberhard Karls University Tübingen" (FKZ: 01JA23T01C).

Dr. Quixal focuses on developing materials and strategies to build a co-constructive dialogue between schools and research institutions. The overall goal of the project is to facilitate or enable the transfer of research findings into school practice

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since 03/2023
Research Associate TüCeDE

Research associate at the Tübingen Center for Digital Education and in the transfer office of the project lernen:digital (https://lernen.digital/), a competence network to shape the dialogue between science and practice for the digital transformation of schools and teacher training.

04/2019 - 03/2023
Research assistant at the Seminar for Linguistics at the University of Tübingen

Research associate of the project "DigBindiff - Digital Internal Differentiation: Integration of Linguistic & Cognitive Measures for Adaptive Support".

04/2018 - 04/2019
Parental leave
02/2017 - 01/2018
Trainee Teacher

at the Escola Vedruna Immaculada Barcelona, English and German

09/2016 - 06/2017
Master's program of the teaching profession for English as a foreign language

at the University of Pompeu Fabra

08/2014 - 09/2015
Research assistant at the Seminar for Linguistics

at the University of Tübingen. Lecturer BA and MA courses.

10/2012 - 05/2014
Lecturer and researcher

at the University of Texas at Austin, Spanish and Portuguese Department

09/2009 - 12/2012
Promotion

under Dr. Badia i Cardús and Dr. Meurers (University of Pompeu Fabra and University of Tübingen)

04/2002 - 10/2012
Junior and Senior Researcher

at the Fundació Barcelona Media
Member of the Voice and Language Group, which was active in technology transfer

2009 - 2011: Project ICE3 - financed by the Executive Agency Education, Audiovisual and Culture Agency for Education, within the Lifelong Learning Program, project number 510653-LLP-1-2010-1-ES-COMENIUS-CMP

2007 - 2008: AutoLearn project - funded by the Executive Agency Education, Audiovisual and Culture Agency for Education within the Lifelong Learning Program, project number 135693-LLP-1-2007-1-ES-KA3-KA3MP

2002 - 2005: ALLES project - financed by the European Commission within the 5th Framework Program, contract number IST-2001-34246

04/1999 - 10/2004
Master's degree and doctoral courses

of Computational Linguistics at the Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada of Pompeu Fabra University.

09/1994 - 06/1998
Graduate translator

at the University of Pompeu Fabra (English and German)

Publications

Publications

2021

  • Martí Quixal, Björn Rudzewitz, Elizabeth Bear and Detmar Meurers. Automatic annotation of curricular language targets to enrich activity models and support both pedagogy and adaptive systems. In 10th Workshop on NLP for CALL NoDaLiDa workshop, Online, May 31 2021.

2020

  • Friederike Blume, Martí Quixal, Justin Hudak, Thomas Dresler, Caterina Gawrilow, and Ann-Christine Ehlis. Development of Reading Abilities in Children with ADHD Following fNIRS-Neurofeedback or EMG-Biofeedback. In Lernen und Lernstörungen 2020, 9 (3), 163 - 174. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1024/2235-0977/a000302

2016

  • Martí Quixal and Detmar Meurers. How can writing tasks be characterized in a way serving pedagogical goals and automatic analysis needs?. CALICO Journal, Special Issue on Automated Writing Evaluation in Language Teaching: Theory, Development, and Application. Guest editors: Volker Hegelheimer, Ahmet Dursun and Zhi Li. Vol. 33, 1. Pages: 19-48.

2014

  • Maite Melero, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Patrik Lambert and Martí Quixal. Selection of correction candidates for the normalization of Spanish user-generated content. In Natural Language Engineering, Available on CJO 2014 doi:10.1017/S1351324914000011. Copyrights Cambridge University Press. (link)

2013

  • 2013 Rachael Gilg, Martí Quixal, and Arthur Wendorf. A video corpus for language learning: open source tools and materials from the Corpus-to-Classroom project. In Proceedings of the 2013 Conference For The International Association For Language Learning, 2013.

  • Martí Quixal, Rachael Gilg, Arthur Wendorf, Barbara E. Bullocck, and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio. SPinTX Corpus-to-Classroom: A Teacher-Centered Pedagogical Interface for the Spanish in Texas Corpus. In Proceedings of the CALICO Conference, 2013.

2012

  • Maite Melero, Marta R. Costa-Jussà, Judith Domingo, Montse Marquina, and Martí Quixal. 2012. "Holaaa!! writin like u talk is kewl but kinda hard 4 NLP". In Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12). Editors: Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, and Stelios Piperidis. Published by European Language Resources Association (ELRA). May 23-25, 2012. Istanbul, Turkey. ISBN: 978-2-9517408-7-7. [Conference link, open access]

2011

  • Toni Badia, Judith Domingo, Richard Easton, Simona Gabureanu, Istrate Olimpius, Martí Quixal, Mike Sharwood Smith, Paul Schmidt, Irina Vasilescu. “Integrating Call In Early Education Environments (ICE3)”. Proceedings of INTED2011 Conference. 7-9 March 2011, Valencia, Spain. ISBN:978-84-614-7423-3. [Publisher's link]

2010

  • Víctor Pascual, Lorenzo Vigentini and Martí Quixal. "Visualising Virtual Learning Environments: Case Studies of the Website Exploration Tool". In Proceedings 14th International Conference on Information Visualisation, 26th--29th July 2010, South Bank University, London, United Kingdom. [Publisher's link]

  • Martí Quixal, Susanne Preuß, David García-Narbona i Beto Boullosa. "AutoLearn's Authoring Tool: A Piece of Cake for Teachers". In Proceedings of The 5th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Los Angeles, California, United States, June 1-6, 2010. [PDF, slides]

  • Maite Melero, Gemma Boleda, Montse Cuadros, Cristina España-Bonet, Lluís Padró, Martí Quixal, Carlos Rodríguez i Roser Saurí. (2010), Language technology challenges of a "small" language (Catalan). In Proceedings of the Seventh International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10) pp. 925-930 Malta. ISBN 2-9517408-6-7. [PDF]

2009

  • Gemma Boleda, Montse Cuadros, Cristina España-Bonet, Maite Melero, Lluís Padró, Martí Quixal i Carlos Rodríguez. (2009), Sobre la I Jornada del Processament Computacional del Català A: Llengua i Ús, vol. 45, pg. 23--32. ISSN: 2013-052X. [PDF]

  • Gemma Boleda, Montse Cuadros, Cristina España-Bonet, Maite Melero, Lluís Padró, Martí Quixal i Carlos Rodríguez. (2009), Conclusiones de la primera Jornada del Procesamiento Computacional del Catalán Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 43, 387-388. September, 2009. ISSN: 1135-5948.

  • Gemma Boleda, Montse Cuadros, Cristina España-Bonet, Maite Melero, Lluís Padró, Martí Quixal i Carlos Rodríguez. (2009), El català i les tecnologies de la llengua A: Llengua, Societat i Comunicació, vol 7, 20-26, 2009. ISSN 1697 5928. [PDF]

  • Estrada, M., Navarro-Prieto, R., Quixal, M. (2009) "Combined evaluation of a virtual learning environment: use of qualitative methods and log interpretation to evaluate a computer mediated language course". In Proceedings of EDULEARN09, 6th-8th of July, 2009, Barcelona (Spain).

  • Estrada, M., Navarro, R. and Quixal, M. "A framework for the evaluation of language learning platforms". In Proceedings of the e-Society IADIS International Conference, vol. II. Ed. by Piet Kommers and Pedro Isaías. February, 25th-28th, Barcelona, Spain. Pages 95-99.

2008

  • Quixal, Martí, Badia, Toni, Benavent, Francesc, Boullosa, Jose R., Domingo, Judith, Grau, Bernat, Massó, Guillem, Valentín, Oriol. User-Centred Design of Error Correction Tools. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08) Marrakech, Morocco. [PDF]

2006

  • Quixal, M., Badia, T., Boullosa, B., Díaz, L. and Ruggia, A. (2006). “Strategies for the Generation of Individualised Feedback in Distance Language Learning”. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Language-Enabled Technology and Development and Evaluation of Robust Spoken Dialogue Systems of ECAI 2006. Riva del Garda, Italy, Sept. 2006. [PDF (camera ready version before publication)]

2004

  • Badia, T., Díaz, L., Quixal, M., Ruggia, A., Garnier, S. and Schmidt, P. (2004) “Individualised NLP-Enhanced Feedback for Distance Language Learning”. In: Looi, Chee-Kit, L., Sutinen, E., Sampson, D. G., Aedo, I., Uden, L. and Kähkönen, E. (eds.) ICALT 2004 - Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies 30 August - 1 September, 2004, Joensuu, Finland.

  • Badia, T., Gil, A., Quixal, M. and Valentín, O. 2004. NLP-enhanced error checking for Catalan unrestricted text. In Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Lisbon, vol.VI p. 1919-1922.

  • Aguilar, L., Alsina, A., Avilés, A., Badia, T., Balari, S., Boleda, G., Bott, S., Brumme, J., Colominas, C., Espunya, C., Fontana, J., Fontseca, J., Gil, A., Hernández, C., Mayol, L., McNally, L., de la Mota, C., Quixal, M., Rodríguez, Y. Valentín, O., Vallduví, E., Vallverdú, T. 2004. PrADo: Preparación Automatizada de Documentos (TIC 2000-1681). Tech report.

2002

  • Alsina, À., T. Badia, G. Boleda, S. Bott, À. Gil, M. Quixal, O. Valentín. 2002. CATCG: un sistema de análisis morfosintáctico para el catalán. Revista de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 29, Sept., pp. 309-310.,

  • Badia, T., G. Boleda, J. Brumme, C. Colominas, M. Garmendia, M. Quixal. 2002. BancTrad: un banco de corpus anotados con intercie web. Revista de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 29, Sept., pp. 293-294.

  • Alsina, A., Badia, T., Boleda, G., Bott, S., Gil, A., Quixal, M. Valentín, O.. 2002. “CATCG: a general purpose parsing tool applied”. In Proceedings of Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Las Palmas, vol. III, p. 1130-1134.

  • Badia, T., G. Boleda, C. Colominas, M. Garmendia, A. González, M. Quixal. 2002. Eines de lingüística computacional per a la traducció: corpus paral·lels anotats. Proceedings of the 2nd Inter’l Conference on Specialized Translation, pp. 129-137, Barcelona, Spain.

2001

  • Badia, T., G. Boleda, M. Quixal. 2001. Curso sobre Tecnologías de la lengua (segunda edición). QUARK, Ciencia, Medicina, Comunicación y Cultura, 21, Jul - Sept., pp. 14-16.

  • Badia, T., Boleda, G., Quixal, M., and Bofias, E. 2001. “A modular architecture for the processing of free text”. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Modular Programming Applied to Natural Language Processing at EUROLAN 2001. Iasi, August 2001.

Publications

Publikationen Martí Quixal