CV

10/2015 – present-day PhD student at the Computational Linguistics Group
University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

2020 – present-day – Senior Solution Consultant for 3D CPQ Visualization
Technical Project Lead, Full Stack Development in 3D CPQ Visualization.
Tacton Sytems GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany

10/2016 – 2020 – Solution Consultant for 3D CPQ Visualization
Full Stack Development in 3D CPQ Visualization.
Tacton Sytems GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany

01/2015 – 09/2016 – IT Consultant
Full Stack Development and UX-Design, Web and Mobile.
Exxeta GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany

10/2012 – 11/2014 Master of Science Computational Visualistics
University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

10/2009 – 11/2012 Bachelor of Science Computational Visualistics
University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

Publications

A text-writing system for Easy-to-Read German evaluated with low-literate users with cognitive impairment

Ina Steinmetz and Karin Harbusch, 2022. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants (In2Writing 2022), pages 27–38, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.

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A Computer-Assisted Writing Tool for an Extended Variety of Leichte Sprache (Easy-to-Read German).
Karin Harbusch and Ina Steinmetz.
Frontiers in Communication, Language Sciences, open access, 2022; Front. Commun., 03 January 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.689009.

EasyTalk: An assistive text-writing system for Leichte Sprache (Easy-to-read German).
Ina Steinmetz and Karin Harbusch.
Communication Matters International AAC Conference, Leeds, UK, September, 2021.

A writing-support system utilizing ‘Leichte Sprache’ (LS; easy-to-read German) for people with low literacy skills
Ina Steinmetz and Karin Harbusch, KLAARA 2021 – 2nd Conference on Easy-to-Read Language Research, Online, 2021.
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EasyTalk: A Digital Writer’s Workshop for Leichte Sprache (Easy-to-read German)
Ina Steinmetz and Karin Harbusch, In Proceedings of European Conference of Education 2021 (ECE2021), London, UK, 2021.
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Enabling fast and correct typing in `Leichte Sprache‘ (Easy Language)
Ina Steinmetz and Karin Harbusch, 2020. In Proceedings of the Fourth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop (WiNLP2020), pages 64–67, Seattle, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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