Available Thesis Projects for Bachelor's and Master's Students (Updated: May 13, 2023)

Text Technologies

• "Evaluation of document-level machine translation" supervised by Rico Sennrich
• "Reproduction studies in machine translation and NLP" supervised by Rico Sennrich
• "Test effects of machine translation quality on downstream performance" supervised by Rico Sennrich
• "Part-of-Speech Tagging for Early Modern Latin Correspondence" supervised by Phillip Ströbel
• "The Spread of Ideas during the Reformation in 16th Century Correspondence" supervised by Phillip Ströbel
• "OCR for Early Prints" supervised by Simon Clematide; Phillip Ströbel
• "Reconstructing Missing Letters in the Bullinger Correspondence thru Large Language Models (e.g. ChatGPT)" supervised by Martin Volk; Tannon Kew
• "Language modeling with pose estimation data for sign language processing (MA only)" supervised by Mathias Müller
• "Improve open-source libraries for sign language processing (programming project)" supervised by Mathias Müller
• "Transition probabilities and word recognition" supervised by Catalina Torres
• "Multilingual Resolution of Abbreviations" supervised by Jannis Vamvas
• "Document Embeddings with SwissBERT" supervised by Jannis Vamvas
• "Efficient Machine Translation via Sampling" supervised by Jannis Vamvas

Digital Linguistics

• "Leveraging Eye-Tracking Data for Assessing Different Reader Characteristics (MA only)" supervised by Lena Jäger; Deborah Jakobi
• "Studying Psycholinguistic Theories on Language Processing using a Natural Reading Eye-Tracking Corpus (MA only)" supervised by Lena Jäger; Deborah Jakobi
• "Eye-tracking and text simplification (MA only)" supervised by Patrick Haller; Lena Jäger
• "Developing an eye-tracking based text readability score (MA only)" supervised by Nora Hollenstein; Lena Jäger
• "Webcam eye-tracking for ML applications" supervised by Nora Hollenstein; Lena Jäger

Phonetics & Speech Sciences

• "Variability and systematicity in L1+L2 speech patterns" supervised by Eleanor Chodroff
• "Perceptual generalization in adapting to novel speakers" supervised by Eleanor Chodroff
• "Using massively multilingual speech corpora for phonetic typology" supervised by Eleanor Chodroff
• "Acoustic–articulatory relationships in sibilant fricatives (MA only)" supervised by Eleanor Chodroff
• "Is There an Optimal Speech Rate? Exploring the Boundaries of Speech Perception at Varying Speech Rates" supervised by Daniel Friedrichs
• "The Relationship between Climate and Language: Uncovering Nasal Vowel Distribution" supervised by Daniel Friedrichs
• "Speech Amplitude Modulations: The Mandible Effect" supervised by Daniel Friedrichs
• "Assessing Mobile fNIRS Efficacy: A Novel Approach in Speech and Hearing Science Research" supervised by Daniel Friedrichs
• "Charting the electroglottograh (E.G.G.) measures in a large sample of healthy speakers (MA only)" supervised by Lei He; Meike Brockmann-Bauser (UniSpital)
• "The Role of Expressive Audio-Visual Information on Face-Voice and Voice-Face Identity Matching" supervised by Elisa Pellegrino
• "The Role of Speech Acoustics in Detecting Deep Fake Voices" supervised by Elisa Pellegrino
• "The Effect of Prosody Training on Second Language Acquisition" supervised by Elisa Pellegrino
• "The Time Course of Vocal Accommodation and Its Effect on Voice Recognition" supervised by Elisa Pellegrino
• "Intonational patterns of Multhiethnolectal Zurich German" supervised by Stephan Schmid
• "Is vowel lengthening in Italian allophonic or prosodic?" supervised by Stephan Schmid
• "Automatic prominence detection in L2" supervised by Sandra Schwab; Jean-Philippe Goldman
• "Prominence marking in an Oceanic language" supervised by Catalina Torres
• "Measuring intra-speaker variability in different speaking styles" supervised by Catalina Torres

• Language Technology for Heritage Texts (Martin Volk)
• Machine Translation (Martin Volk, Rico Sennrich, Annette Rios, Mathias Müller)
• Toponym Recognition (Martin Volk)
• Speech & Voice (Volker Dellwo)
• Machine Learning (Simon Clematide)
• Large News Corpora (Simon Clematide)
• Digital Humanities (Gerold Schneider, Simon Clematide)
• Morphology (Simon Clematide)
• Corpus Linguistics (Gerold Schneider)
• 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)
• Coreference Resolution (Manfred Klenner)
• Argumentation Mining (Manfred Klenner)
• Sentiment Analysis (SA) (Manfred Klenner)
• Experimental psycholinguistics (Lena A. Jäger)
• Computational psycholinguistics /  Computational cognitive science (Lena A. Jäger)
• Cognitively enhanced/interpretable NLP (Lena A. Jäger)