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Basics

Name Karl Osswald 林楷之
Label MSc student in Cognitive Systems
Email karl.osswald@uni-potsdam.de
Url https://ansovald.github.io/
Summary Currently pursuing a Master's degree in Cognitive Systems at the University of Potsdam, with a strong foundation in Indo-European Studies, Sinology, and Linguistics from my Bachelor's studies. Main focus is on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs).

Work

  • 2025.04 - Present
    Student Assistant
    colab, Departement Linguistik, Universität Potsdam
    Implementation work within the clembench framework, focusing on the evaluation of large language models.
  • 2024.10 - 2025.03
    Teaching Assistant
    colab, Departement Linguistik, Universität Potsdam
    Teaching assistant for the course 'Advanced Natural Language Processing' (Winter term 2024/25).
  • 2024.10 - Present
    Student Assistant
    EMHo, Department for East Asian Studies, Humboldt Universiät zu Berlin
    A digital edition of an Hokkien-Spanish dictionary from Manila, Philippines (17th century).
  • 2022.07 - 2024.02
    Student Assistant
    Department for East Asian Studies, Humboldt Universiät zu Berlin
    Assisting in research and general administrative tasks for the chair of Modern Chinese Languages and Literatures.
  • 2022.02 - 2021.03
    Student Assistant
    DoReCo, Leibniz-Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin
    Annotation work within the Language Documentation Reference Corpus (DoReCo) project.

Education

  • 2024.02 - 2024.08

    Taipei, Taiwan

    Language Class
    National Taiwan University, Taiwan
    Modern and Literary Chinese
    • Upper-Advanced Chinese
    • Advanced High Chinese
  • 2023.10 - Present

    Potsdam, Germany

    MSc
    Universität Potsdam, Germany
    Cognitive Systems
    • Advanced Natural Language Processing
    • Answer Set Programming
    • Current Topics in Computational Linguistics
    • Reasoning with Large Language Models
    • Phonological Cognition
    • Evaluating Chat-Optimized Language Models
  • 2019.10 - Present

    Berlin, Germany

    BA
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
    Area Studies Asia / Africa (focus on East Asia)
  • 2010.10 - 2015.03

    Jena, Germany

    BA
    Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
    Indo-European and General Linguistics

Skills

Programming
Python
ASP

Languages

German
Native speaker
English
Fluent
Chinese (Mandarin)
Fluent
Spanish
Beginner
Russian
Beginner
Latin
Intermediate
Classical Chinese
Intermediate
Ancient Greek
Intermediate
Sanskrit
Beginner
Old High German
Beginner
Old Icelandic
Beginner