On 5 July 2016 UKP doctoral candidate Lisa Beinborn successfully defended her thesis, Predicting and Manipulating the Difficulty of Text-Completion Exercises for Language Learning.

The referees of the dissertation were Iryna Gurevych (TU Darmstadt), Torsten Zesch (Universität Duisburg-Essen), and Detmar Meurers (Universität Tübingen). The committee was composed of Felix Wolf, Stefan Roth, and Stefan Katzenbeisser.