Open Topics for BA and MA Theses as well as Programming Projects
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
- Quantifying views about the future during the latest Digital Revolution (1998-2020)
- Text Reuse Detection (BA Thesis)
Normalization/Morphology
Misc
- Automatic Classification of Large Text Collections
- Retrieve-and-edit seq2seq modelling for review response generation
Machine Translation (contact: Prof Rico Sennrich)
- Measure effect of machine translation quality on downstream performance
- Automatic error analysis for speech translation
- Better text representations for non-concatenative morphology
- Multimodal Multilingual Clinical NLP (Farhad Nooralahzadeh)
- Vision-Language Multilingual NLU (Farhad Nooralahzadeh)
Sentiment Analysis (SA): Manfred Klenner
- Sentiment Inference as Textual Entailment
- Sentiment Inference: Identify micro stance
- SA for speech synthesis of direct speech
- SA in literary texts
- Extracting predicate argument structures from complex NPs
- Other topics from SA are possible as well
Speech and Machine Learning
Second Language Acquisition (contact: Prof Volker Dellwo)
There are no open thesis projects at the moment. However, do not hesitate to contact Prof Dellwo or other staff members from the Phonetics & Speech Sciences Group if you are interested in this topic.
Aging and Speech Pathology (contact: Prof Volker Dellwo)
- Temporal processing in aging
- The effect of aging on speech production (contact: Dr Elisa Pellegrino)
Sociophonetics and Dialectology (contact: Prof Stephan Schmid)
- Variants of /r/ in the Cantons of Basel-City and Basel-Country: a sociophonetic survey
- VoiceOffsetTime as a cue to the fortis-lenis distinction in Swiss German: acoustic and laryngographic evidence
Speech Signal Processing (contact: Prof Volker Dellwo)
- Use of intonation for voice recognition in tone and non-tone languages
- 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)
- Assessing the effect of articulatory anatomy on speech rhythm (contact: Dr Daniel Friedrichs)
- Evaluating mobile fNIRS as a neuroimaging technique in speech & hearing science research (contact: Dr Daniel Friedrichs)
- Automatic segmentation of child speech in noisy environment" (contact: Dr Sandra Schwab; in collaboration with Nathalie Dherbey Chapuis, UNIFR)
- Combining speech recognition system and automatic prominence detection for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (contact: Dr Sandra Schwab)
- The effect of voice conversion technique on speakers' identity (contact: Dr Elisa Pellegrino)
- The effect of group size on phonetic convergence and speaker individuality (contact: Dr Elisa Pellegrino)
Contact persons for specific areas
- Language Technology for Heritage Texts (Martin Volk)
- Machine Translation (Martin Volk, Rico Sennrich, Annette Rios, 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, Annette Rios, Mathias Müller)
- 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)