Acknowledgments
L-Pub developed its core technologies to serve the field of language learning. Besides our Team, Writers and Investors, we would like to extend our thanks to the following partners and collaborators, without whose help our many achievements would not have been possible:
Ernst Klett Sprachen GmbH
Business and linguistic developing partner of the Language Level Evaluator.
TU Darmstadt
Technical and academic developing partner of the Language Level Evaluator.
PONS Langenscheidt GmbH
Licensor of German dictionary for our app StoryPlanet Deutsch.
Hueber Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
Licensor of German-English dictionary for our app vobot German.
Helmut Buske Verlag GmbH
Licensor of German-Georgian dictionary for our app vobot Georgisch.
Goethe-Institut
Provider of CEFR-ranked German vocabulary lists for the Language Level Evaluator.
Cambridge University Press
Provider of CEFR-ranked English vocabulary lists for the Language Level Evaluator.
Brigham Young University
Licensor of English vocabulary frequency list for the Language Level Evaluator.
Carl Ed. Schünemann KG
Provider of CEFR-classified reading materials to help train the Language Level Evaluator with machine learning.
Spotlight Verlag GmbH
Provider of CEFR-classified reading materials to help train the Language Level Evaluator with machine learning.
telc gGmbH
Commissioner of the app telc Deutsch C1 Wortschatz.
Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Commissioner of the app Scots Dictionary for Schools.
CONTENTshift
Accelerator of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association in which L-Pub participated as a finalist in 2017.
American Association of Teachers of German
Association in which L-Pub has been a member and professional partner.
Eduvation
Startup association in Germany in which L-Pub has actively participated.
Global EdTech Startup Awards
Global startup awards competition in which L-Pub was a finalist for Germany in 2018.
Educational App Store
Certifier of educational apps; StoryPlanet English received the top score of 5 stars.
Former employees
A special thanks also goes to all those who at some point worked for L-Pub in a staff or trainee position:
- Vanessa Appoh (computer linguistics, annotation, writing, editing)
- Anette John (writing, editing, translation, annotation, marketing)
- Irina Hense (computer linguistics, annotation)
- Sandeep Subedi (software development)
- Rohit Gowda (software development)
- Sofia Dmitrieva (computer linguistics, annotation)
- Amanda Grigoleit (writing, editing, translation, marketing)
- Alexandra Bock (writing, editing, annotation)
- Mohammad Al-Mbaidheen (marketing, translation)
- Abdulwaris Osmani (administration)
- Olga Khorkova (marketing)
- Alexandra Hafer (marketing)
- Rachael Beyer (marketing)
Service providers
We would also like to thank a number of service providers who have been pivotal in our development and on-going operation:
- David Richardson (system administration)
- Margret Rodi (linguistics, didactics)
- Katrin Hein (linguistics)
- Hazel & Nutz (WordPress)
- Maik Burdina (design)
- Lutz Jahnke (design)
- wesst (accounting)
- Guido Hettinger (legal)
- Andreas Krempel (legal)
- Klaka (legal)
Online tools and resources
Last but not least…
Many thanks also to our vast universe of users, testers, friends and family members who over the years have been supporting us in countless ways. You rock!