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

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. 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
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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

• Neural Translation of Sign Language

Misc

• Automatic Classification of Large Text Collections

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

 

• 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)