Bachelor and Master Theses
Completed theses
2022
- Zifan Jiang: Machine Translation between Spoken Languages and Signed Languages in Written Form (PDF, 2 MB)
[February 2022, master's thesis, English]
2021
- Luca Salini: Maschinelle Übersetzungssysteme von Französisch in die Schweizer Standardvarietät
[December 2021, bachelor's thesis, German] - Francesco Tinner: Zero-shot Cross-lingual Transfer of the Topic Modeling Task (PDF, 1 MB)
[December 2021, bachelor's thesis, English] - Silvio Daniele Magaldi: A Task-specific Neural Translation Model for the Stellenmonitor Pipeline (PDF, 599 KB)
[December 2021, bachelor's thesis, English] - Andreas Säuberli: Measuring Reading Comprehension and Text Comprehensibility Using a Touchscreen Application (PDF, 597 KB)
Zusammenfassung in leichter Sprache (PDF, 50 KB) (Deutsch)
[July 2021, bachelor's thesis, English] - Atreya Shankar: SoPa++: Leveraging explainability from hybridized RNN, CNN and weighted finite-state neural architectures (PDF, 1 MB)
[July 2021, master's thesis, English] - Sophia Conrad: Toward automatic diagnosis of medical conditions involving speech impairment (PDF, 510 KB)
[June 2021, bachelor's thesis, English] - Karin Thommen: Emotionsanalyse in literarischen Texten mittels Machine Learning (PDF, 2 MB)
[June 2021, bachelor's thesis, German] - Debora Beuret: Uncovering the role of prosody in voice discrimination
[June 2021, master's thesis, English] - Vera Bernhard: Automatic Lexical Stress Detection in Isolated English Words (PDF, 33 KB)
Awarded with the Semester Award UZH spring semester 21 (FS21). Congratulations!
[June 2021, bachelor's thesis, (Abstract), English]
2020
- Lorenz Nagele: Experiments on the Pronunciation Lexicon for Swiss German ASR (PDF, 578 KB)
[December 2020, master's thesis, English] - Tim Graf: Lexically Constrained Decoding using Insertion Transformer (PDF, 449 KB)
[December 2020, bachelor's thesis, English] - Adrian Van der Lek: CogniValSent. An extension of the CogniVal framework to evaluate the cognitive plausibility of sentence-level embeddings
[July 2020, master's thesis, English] - Elainne Marie Vibal: Swiss Accident Prevention Meets NMT: An Evaluation of Machine Translated Texts with a Focus on Helvetisms
[July 2020, bachelor's thesis, English] - Anja Ryser: Erstellung und Alignierung eines parallelen Korpus auf der Basis von “The Times in Plain English”
[July 2020, bachelor's thesis, German] - Nicolas Spring: Probing Tasks for Noised Back-Translation (PDF, 3 MB)
[June 2020, bachelor's thesis, English] - Iuliia Nigmatulina: Acoustic modelling for Swiss German ASR (PDF, 6 MB)
[June 2020, master's thesis, English] - Tannon Kew: Language representation and modelling for Swiss German ASR (PDF, 2 MB)
[May 2020, master's thesis, English] - Markus Göckeritz: Eager Machine Tanslation (PDF, 2 MB)
[March 2020, master's thesis, English]
2019
- Alon Cohen: Aussprachebewertung von Vokalen mittels Formantenanalyse
[Dec 2019, bachelor's thesis, German] - Stefan Bircher: Toulouse and Cahors are French Cities, but T«i*louse and Caa.Qrs as well (PDF, 3 MB)
[July 2019, master's thesis, English] - Alessia Battisti: Automatic Cluster Analysis of Texts in Simplified German (PDF, 4831 KB)
[June 2019, master's thesis, English] - Michaela Benk: Data Augmentation in Deep Learning for Hate Speech Detection in Lower Resource Settings (PDF, 1 MB)
[June 2019, master's thesis, English] - Janis Goldzycher: Taxonomy Learning without Labeled Data (PDF, 441 KB)
[June 2019, bachelor's thesis, English] - Isabel Meraner: Grasping the Nettle: Neural Entity Recognition for Scientific and Vernacular Plant Names (PDF, 1 MB)
[March 2019, master's thesis, English]
2018
- Luzia Roth: Event Detection using bidirectional Long Short Term Memory Neural Networks
[June 2018, master's thesis, English] - Mara Bertamini: Domänenspezifische neuronale maschinelle Übersetzung für finanzwirtschaftliche Texte (PDF, 814 KB)
[June 2018, master's thesis, German] - Jasmin Heierli: Lemma Disambiguation in Multilingual Parallel Corpora (PDF, 1 MB)
[June 2018, master's thesis, English] - Massimo Lusetti: Normalization of Swiss German WhatsApp Messages with Statistical and Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Methods (PDF, 2 MB)
[June 2018, master's thesis, English] - Christof Bless: Information Retrieval Chatbots (PDF, 506 KB)
[June 2018, bachelor's thesis, English] - Noëmi Aepli: Parsing Approaches for Swiss German (PDF, 2 MB)
[January 2018, master's thesis, English]
2017
- Chantal Amrhein: Post-Correcting OCR Errors Using Neural Machine Translation (PDF, 3 MB)
[December 2017, bachelor's thesis, English] - Sumanghalyah Suntharam: Perks and Problems of Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis (PDF, 867 KB)
[November 2017, master's thesis, English] - Xi Rao: Automatic Labeling of Articles in International Investment Agreements (PDF, 9 MB)
[July 2017, master's thesis, English] - Parijat Ghoshal: Topic Modeling and Visualisation of Diachronic Trends in Biomedical Academic Articles (PDF, 2 MB)
[June 2017, master's thesis, English] - Yvonne Gwerder: Named Entity Recognition in Digitized Historical Texts (PDF, 1 MB)
[June 2017, master's thesis, English] - Mathias Müller: Treatment of Markup in Statistical Machine Translation (PDF, 942 KB)
[January 2017, master's thesis, English] - Phillip Ströbel: The Raison d’Etre of Word Embeddings in Identifying Multiword Expressions in Bilingual Corpora
[January 2017, master's thesis, English] - Andrea Fritz: Erstellung eines parallelen Arzneimittelinformations-Korpus (Deutsch-Französisch) und Optimierung von dafür einsetzbaren Part-of-Speech-Taggern (PDF, 84 KB)
[January 2017, master's thesis, German] - Thomas Murphy: Aspektsentimentklassifikation in Rezensionen (PDF, 436 KB)
[January 2017, bachelor's thesis, German]
2016
- Sara S. Wick: Automatic Article Correction in Academic Texts (PDF, 635 KB)
[September 2016, master's thesis, English] - Michela Rossi: Corpus Linguistics Approaches for Multilingual Discourse (PDF, 1 MB)Analysis
[July 2016, master's thesis, English] - Chiara Baffelli: An Annotation Pipeline for Italian based on Dependency Parsing (PDF, 2 MB)
[June 2016, master's thesis, English] - Reto Baumgartner: Morphologieanalyse und standarddeutsche Lemmatisierung für schweizerdeutsche Alltagstexte mit gewichteten Transduktoren (PDF, 547 KB)
[April 2016, master's thesis, German] - Danica Pajovic: ACQDIVIZ - Visualizing Development In Longitudinal First Language Acquisition Data (PDF, 48 MB)
[March 2016, master's thesis, English] - Nicola Colic: Dependency Parsing for Relation Extraction in Biomedical Literature (PDF, 2 MB)
[March 2016, master's thesis, English] - Lukas Fischer: Sentimentanalyse für Twitter (PDF, 331 KB)
[March 2016, bachelor's thesis, German]
2015
- Dolores Batinic: Words in Mind and Words in Language (PDF, 887 KB)
[December 2015, master's thesis, English] - Julya Suter: Rule-based Text Simplification for German (PDF, 377 KB)
[July 2015, bachelor's thesis, English] -
Simon Wegmüller: Twitter Sentiment Analysis: the Use of Automatically Acquired Training Data for Machine Learning and Hybrid Methods (PDF, 802 KB)
[July 2015, bachelor's thesis, English]
2014
- Nadine Stamm: Klassifikation und Analyse von Emotionswörtern in Tweets für die Sentimentanalyse (PDF, 1 MB)
[December 2014, bachelor's thesis, German] - Stéphanie Lehner: Deutsche Substantivkomposita in parallelen Korpora: Erstellung und Evaluation eines multilingualen Goldstandards zur Optimierung der automatischen Übersetzungsbestimmung (PDF, 6 MB)
[November 2014, licentiate thesis, German] - Martina Bachmann: Aspektextraktion in domänenspezifischen Rezensionen (PDF, 545 KB)
[July 2014, bachelor's thesis, German] - Manuela Weibel: Aufbau paralleler Korpora und Implementierung eines wortalignierten Suchsystems für Deutsch – Rumantsch Grischun (PDF, 2 MB)
[January 2014, master's thesis, German] [Daten (ZIP, 14 MB)]
2013
- Susanna Tron: A verb-centered Sentiment Analysis for French (PDF, 1 MB)
[November 2013, master's thesis, English] - Lenz Furrer: Unsupervised Text Segmentation for Correcting OCR Errors (PDF, 2 MB)
[July 2013, master's thesis, English] - Katrin Rettich: Automatische Annotation von deutschen und französischen temporalen Ausdrücken im Text+Berg-Korpus
[June 2013, master's thesis, German] - Jeanette Isele: Machine Translation of Film Subtitles from English to Spanish. Combining a Statistical System with Rule-based Grammar Checking
[June 2013, master's thesis, English]
2012 (and earlier): licentiate theses
- Sarah Ebling: Generalized Templates in Example-Based Machine Translation (PDF, 892 KB)
[January 2011, English] - Annette Rios: Applying Finite-State Techniques to a Native American Language: Quechua (PDF, 1 MB)
[November 2010, English] - Sandra Roth: Automatisches Alignieren in parallelen Baumbanken (PDF, 3 MB)
[November 2009, German] - Anne Göhring: Spanische Erweiterung einer Parallelen Baumbank (PDF, 1 MB)
[November 2009, German] - Don Tuggener: Machine Learning für Koreferenz-Auflösung (PDF, 580 KB)
[October 2009, German] - Rico Sennrich: Syntactically Enriched Statistical Machine Translation from English to German (PDF, 525 KB)
[September 2009, English] - Angela Fahrni: Die Extraktion von Relationen für den Aufbau einer Ontologie (PDF, 5 MB)
[April 2009, German] - Sandra Lüthi: eGramD. ELearning mit Hilfe von computerlinguistisch annotierten Übungstexten für den Deutschunterricht auf Primarstufe (PDF, 2 MB)
[April 2008, German] - Lukas Rieder: Annotating Political Entities in Newspaper Articles: A COSA Implementation Using Finite-State Devices (PDF, 1 MB)
[September 2008, English] - Sandra Roth: Lexikalisch-Semantische Netze: Anwendungsperspektiven für die Computerlinguistik (PDF, 1 MB)
[May 2006, German] - Renata Ševciková: Schwierigkeiten in der automatischen Verarbeitung von Anaphora (PDF, 1 MB)
[October 2005, German] - Johann Fichtner: OT-Parsing (PDF, 5 MB)
[October 2005, English] - Roberto Nespeca: Auf dem Weg zu einem Lexikon, Tagger und Parser für das Antikchinesische: Teil I: Allgemeine Grundlagen und Aufbau linguistischer Analyse-Software (PDF, 8 MB)
[October 2005, German] - Cornelia Steinmann: Computerlinguistische Methoden und Anwendungen zur Unterstütung des Fremdsprachenlernens (PDF, 960 KB)
[April 2005, German] - Magnus Karlsson: The WDT approach. An Index Compression for the specific DoMayn EMayl. In Kooperation mit der Firma IBM, Böblingen.
[July 2004] - Carola Kühnlein: Eigennamenerkennung über Konzeptsensoren (PDF, 1 MB). In Kooperation mit der Firma Eurospider, Zürich.
[December 2003, German] - Charlotte Merz: A Corpus Query Tool For Syntactically Annotated Corpora (PDF, 896 KB)
[May 2003, English] - Sonja Brodersen: Automatisches Lernen und Anwenden von Syntaxbaumtransformationen mit einem Markow-Modell (PDF, 606 KB)
[March 2003, German] - Jeannette Roth: Der Stand der Kunst in der Eigennamen-Erkennung. Mit einem Fokus auf Produktnamen-Erkennung (PDF, 804 KB)
[December 2002, German] - Christoph Biveroni: Natürlichsprachliche Datenbankschnittstellen: Sprachverstehen und Benutzerinteraktion (PDF, 1 MB)
[October 2002, German] - Catherine Ayer: Die Analyse englischer Nominalisierungen in sprachverarbeitenden Systemen.
[June 2002] - Björn Metzinger: Automatische E-Mayl Beantwortung. Theoretische Grundlagen und Aspekte praktischer Anwendung (PDF, 1 MB)
[May 2002, German] - Mirjam Oberholzer: Terminologische Definitionen: Form, Funktion, Extraktion (PDF, 294 KB)
[May 2002, German] - Stefan Höfler: Link2Tree: A Dependency-Constituency Converter. (PDF, 818 KB)
[April 2002, English] - Esther Kaufmann: Das Indexieren von natürlichsprachlichen Dokumenten und die inverse Seitenhäufigkeit (PDF, 653 KB)
[October 2001, German] - Angela Niederbäumer: German Terminology of Banking: Linguistic Methods of Description and Implementation of a Program for Term Extraction (PDF, 485 KB)
[November 2000, English] - Simon Clematide: Ellipsenbehandlung im UIS (PDF, 235 KB)
[December 1998, German] - Gerold Schneider: A Linguistic Comparison of Constituency, Dependency and Link Grammar (PDF, 885 KB)
[June 1998, English]