Torsten Zesch is a professor for Computational Linguistics at the research center “CATALPA – Center of Advanced Technology for Assisted Learning and Predictive Analysis” at FernUniversität in Hagen. His research focuses on language technology and natural language processing, with a special interest in analyzing and processing non-standard, error-prone language as found in social media, learner or medical language. From 2017 to 2023 he was the president of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology.
President of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, 2017 - 2023