Ran Zhang is a second-year Ph.D. student from the Natural Language Learning Group at the University of Mannheim, with a master’s degree from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Zhang was a research associate at data science lab in Hertie School of Governance for a year, focusing on causal languages of political texts. Her current research focuses on language generation and evaluation in interdisciplinary (humanities) subjects such as historical texts, poetry, and literature. Her ongoing project explores the automatic evaluation of literary translation by human and machine, especially large language models.
