Thorben Schomacker
Lecturer at Universität Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolThorben Schomacker is a lecturer and researcher based in Hamburg who applies AI to make German texts more accessible, a focus he pursues in his doctoral work. With nine years of experience spanning IT services, research software development, and teaching, he combines practical Python engineering with hands-on experience training large language models for Easy Language translation. Since 2024 he has taught Data Science courses at HAW Hamburg while contributing to digital humanities projects and research groups like minds-hh and Formulae-Litterae-Chartae. He publishes and presents academic work, bridging rigorous scientific communication with applied tooling for accessibility. Notably, his profile reflects sustained involvement in the German easy-to-read community, blending technical depth with real-world impact on inclusion.
9 years of coding experience
Doktor (Ph.D.) Informatik, Doktor (Ph.D.) Informatik at University of HamburgMaster of Science - MS Informatik, Master of Science - MS Informatik at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
German, English
Stackoverflow
700reputation
1.2mreached
30answers
4questions
Github Skills (72)
distilbert10
acl8
phonetics8
computational-linguistics8
matching8
eclipse-ide7
summarization7
natural-language-processing7
roberta7
electra7
text-matching6
flask6
tensor6
html6
nlp6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
TeamOhneNamen/LB
Mar 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:70 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
TeamOhneNamen/haw.bai4.isp
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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