Open Topics for BA and MA Theses as well as Programming Projects
Open topics for final theses
Sentiment Analysis
- Sentiment Analysis for Twitter: Supervised Machine Learning
- Extraktion von Prädikat-Argumentstrukturen aus komplexen NPs
- weitere Themen
Computer-Assisted Language Learning
(Cognitive) Corpus Linguistics/Digital Humanities
- Data-driven Features of Linguistic Variation
- News from the Past
- Correlations between reading speed and cognitive measures
- Automatic Classification of Large Document Collections
Normalization/Morphology
Speech and Machine Learning
Second Language Acquisition (contact: Prof. Dr. Volker Dellwo)
- Automatic assessment of vocabulary richness in a second language
- Tone Detection in Mandarin Speech with Machine Learning Approach for Innovative Computer-Aided Language Learning
Aging and Speech Pathology (contact: Prof. Dr. Volker Dellwo)
- Temporal processing in aging
Sociophonetics and Dialectology (contact: Prof. Dr. Stephan Schmid)
- Variants of /r/ in the Cantons of Basel-City and Basel-Country: a sociophonetic survey
- Aspirated stops in Swiss German dialects: areal distribution and sociophonetic parameters
- VoiceOffsetTime as a cue to the fortis-lenis distinction in Swiss German: acoustic and laryngographic evidence
Speech Signal Processing (contact: Prof. Dr. Volker Dellwo)
- Use of intonation for voice recognition in tone and non-tone languages
- Determining the Optimal Number of Vowel Clusters in a wide range of Fundamental Frequency using Unsupervised Clustering
- Gender classification between different populations
- The effect of nicotine craving on speech (perception and production)
- Gender detection before puberty (by adults and same age group)
- Tone Detection in Mandarin Speech with Machine Learning Approach for Innovative Computer-Aided Language Learning (contact: Sandra Schwab)
- Combining speech recognition system and automatic prominence detection for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (contact: Sandra Schwab)
Sign Language
Misc
Machine Translation ( (*) = topic taken, thesis upcoming)
- Analysis of Coverage in NMT
- Pretrained Embeddings
- Machine Translation for Downstream NLP Applications (*)
- Mitigating interference in multilingual NMT systems
- Random variation and significance testing in machine translation
- Improving Low-resource Rumansh Machine Translation
- Forensic Applications of Machine Translation: Detecting Translationese, Provenance of Translated Text
- Ordering Dropout for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
- Mining Parallel Corpora with Cross-lingual Embeddings
Contact persons for specific areas
- Language Technology for Heritage Texts (Martin Volk)
- Machine Translation (Martin Volk, Rico Sennrich, Annette Rios, Samuel Läubli, Mathias Müller)
- Toponym Recognition (Martin Volk)
- Speech (Volker Dellwo)
- Machine Learning (Simon Clematide)
- Large News Corpora (Simon Clematide)
- Digital Humanities (Gerold Schneider, Simon Clematide)
- Morphology (Simon Clematide, Tanja Samardžić)
- Corpus Linguistics (Gerold Schneider, Tanja Samardžić)
- CALL (Computer-assisted Language Learning) (Gerold Schneider, Manfred Klenner)
- Automatic Processing of Sign Language (Sarah Ebling)
- Language Technology for Accessibility (Sarah Ebling)
- Processing of Swiss German (Tanja Samardžić)
- Coreference Resolution (Manfred Klenner)
- Argumentation Mining (Manfred Klenner)
- Sentiment Analysis (SA) (Manfred Klenner)