Ruth Schäfer

Research Engineer at RenPhil, Ph.D. in Particle Physics

Blog

  • Parsing student assignments with vision models

    As part of my work with the organisation Lit in my position at RenPhil, I recently had the opportunity to try out how different LLMs with vision capabilities do at transcribing student assessments into useful schema. Process For the models, I gathered all the available models with vision capabilities from the big providers and as…


  • ASR in children’s literacy

    Earlier this summer, I had the honor to collaborate on an article on the use and handling of automatic speech recognition (ASR) in educational technology supporting children’s literacy education with Owen Henkel (EdTechnical, Rising Academies), Ying Xu (Harvard University), and L Burleigh (Learning Agency) this summer. You can find it here, published at the Learning…


  • RSS feeds

    Over the last few years, I have gathered a list of blogs and websites I read regularly. Some of them I subscribed to via email, but a lot of them I also navigated to whenever I remembered. It lead to many a mess of open tabs and missing posts I would’ve liked to read. One…