CV
Work Experience
September 2024 – present day – Researcher for Digital Twins and Smart Factory Systems
Research and Development
Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB, Karlsruhe, Germany
2020 – August 2024 – 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
Education
10/2015 – 06/2023 PhD (Dr. rer. nat) at the Computational Linguistics Group
University of Koblenz-Landau, 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
Fields of interest / research topics
- Digital Twins and Smart Factory Systems
- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Human-Centered Design
- Natural Language Generation for Erweiterte Leichte Sprache (Easy-to-Read German)
- Systems for Augmented and Alternative Communication (AAC) and assistive writing: EasyTalk
- Visualizing CPQ Solutions and building visual configurators for complex industrial products
Publications
- Developing ‘EasyTalk’ – a writing system utilizing natural language processing for interactive generation of ‘Leichte Sprache’ (Easy-to-Read German) to assist low-literate users with intellectual or developmental disabilities and/or complex communication needs in writing.
Ina Steinmetz, 2023, Doctoral Thesis, Universität Koblenz, Universitätsbibliothek. URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:kob7-24431 - 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. doi: 10.18653/v1/2022.in2writing-1.4
> Details / full paper / proceedings. - How to identify easy-to-understand constructions beyond the scope of ‚Leichte Sprache‘ (LS; easy-to-read German) by investigating treebanks of LS, spoken and written German.
Karin Harbusch and Ina Steinmetz.
Tagungsband der 44. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, AG11: Detmar Meurers, and Zarah Weiss. Adaptive linguistic complexity: readability, developmentally proximal input, alignment, Tübingen, Germany, February, 2022. - 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. doi: 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.
> Book of abstracts
> Download poster - 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.
> Details / full paper / proceedings. - 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. doi: 10.18653/v1/2020.winlp-1.17