Sentiment Analysis

• Sentiment Analysis for Twitter: Supervised Machine Learning
• Extraktion von Prädikat-Argumentstrukturen aus komplexen NPs
• weitere Themen

Computer-Assisted Language Learning

• The Automatic Detection of Learner Errors and Difficulties

(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)

Normalization/Morphology

• Using neural networks for spelling normalisation
• Multilingual morphological analysis

Speech and Machine Learning

• Swiss German Speech-to-Text
• Spoken language chunking for Swiss German

Second Language Acquisition (contact: Prof Volker Dellwo)

There are no open thesis projects at the moment. However, do not hesitate to contact people who could supervise a thesis on this topic (see also list below).

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 jaw anatomy on speech rhythm using electromagnetic articulography (contact: Dr Daniel Friedrichs)
• 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)

Misc

• Automatic Classification of Large Text Collections
• Retrieve-and-edit seq2seq modelling for review response generation

Machine Translation

There are no open thesis projects at the moment. However, do not hesitate to get in touch with people who could supervise a thesis on this topic (see below).

 

• 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)