Bachelor and Master Theses

ZORA Publication List

Publications

• 2025

  • Hubarava, H. (2025). Taming CATS: Controllable Automatic Text Simplification through Instruction Fine-Tuning with Control Tokens (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-282026
  • Carpentieri, S. (2025). Aligning a multi-parallel sign language corpus for six languages (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-292787

• 2024

  • Ersoy, B. I. (2024). ePub-to-Quiz Conversion with Large Language Models (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-278427
  • Bodenmann, N. (2024). (Key) Phrase Extraction with Masked Language Models and Information Theory (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-278428

• 2023

  • Säuberli, A. (2023). Automatic Generation and Evaluation of Multiple-Choice Reading Comprehension Items with Large Language Models (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-278430
  • Wastl, M. (2023). Unsupervised Translation Direction Detection (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-278429
  • Bleiker, N. (2023). Evaluation of Pre-trained Metrics and ChatGPT as Document-level Machine Translation Metrics (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-278431
  • Uluslu, A. (2023). Exploring Linguistic Features for Turkish Text Readability (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-276884
  • Cho, S. (2023). Attention Biasing for Knowledge-enhanced Review Response Generation (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-278434
  • Kiener, S. (2023). Schneeschrauben, Himmelbäume, Gartengebäcke. Investigating and Enhancing the Sensitivity of Trained Neural Metrics to German Compounds (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-278433
  • Ryser, A. (2023). Development of a Swiss German Language Sample Analysis Tool - Legal and Ethical Aspects of Data Collection (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-265983
  • Stahlhut, L. (2023). Inferring text comprehension from eye movements in reading using deep neural sequence models (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-278435

• 2022

  • Valkana, E. (2022). Code-switching detection in the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing (1375-1800) (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279261
  • Wu, W. (2022). Cross-lingual Projection of Text Zoning Labels for Job Advertisements (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279262
  • Brändle, S. (2022). Machine Translation of Complex Sentences from Latin to German (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-278436
  • Schaller, H. (2022). Respond in Style: Personalising Review Response Generation by Optimising Continuous Prefixes (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279263
  • Dolev, E. L. (2022). Using Multilingual Word Embeddings for Similarity-Based Word Alignments in a Zero-Shot Setting: Tested on the Case of German–Romansh (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-233699
  • Prada, I. (2022). Telling News from Chatter: Automated Multi-Label Classification of 16th Century Documents (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279264
  • Carpentieri, S. (2022). Computer-Assisted Diagnostics of Developmental Language Disorder in German-Speaking Children (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-265982
  • Jakobi, D. (2022). Grapheme-to-Phoneme Mapping in Text (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279265
  • Jiang, Z. (2022). Machine Translation between Spoken Languages and Signed Languages in Written Form (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279266

• 2021

  • Watter, C. (2021). VOT of bilabial and alveolar stops in Zurich German: a sociophonetic study (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279267
  • Shankar, A. (2021). SoPa++: Leveraging explainability from hybridized RNN, CNN and weighted finite-state neural architectures (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279268
  • Beuret, D. (2021). Uncovering the role of prosody in voice discrimination (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279269
  • Conrad, S. (2021). Toward automatic diagnosis of medical conditions involving speech impairment (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-265979

• 2020

  • Nagele, L. (2020). Experiments on the Pronunciation Lexicon for Swiss German ASR (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279270
  • Shaitarova, A. (2020). The feasibility of a cross-lingual transfer-learning approach to negation scope resolution (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-280319
  • Van der Lek, A. (2020). CogniValSent. An extension of the CogniVal framework to evaluate the cognitive plausibility of sentence-level embeddings (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279271
  • Nigmatulina, I. (2020). Acoustic modelling for Swiss German ASR (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279272
  • Kew, T. (2020). Language representation and modelling for Swiss German ASR (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279273
  • Göckeritz, M. (2020). Eager Machine Tanslation (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279274

• 2019

  • Bircher, S. (2019). Toulouse and Cahors are French Cities, but T«i*louse and Caa.Qrs as well (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279275
  • Benk, M. (2019). Data Augmentation in Deep Learning for Hate Speech Detection in Lower Resource Settings (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279276
  • Meraner, I. (2019). Grasping the Nettle: Neural Entity Recognition for Scientific and Vernacular Plant Names (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279277
  • Battisti, A. (2019). Automatic Cluster Analysis of Texts in Simplified German (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-199179

• 2018

  • Lusetti, M. (2018). Normalization of Swiss German WhatsApp Messages with Statistical and Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Methods (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279280
  • Heierli, J. (2018). Lemma Disambiguation in Multilingual Parallel Corpora (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279279
  • Bertamini, M. (2018). Domänenspezifische neuronale maschinelle Übersetzung für finanzwirtschaftliche Texte (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279278
  • Aepli, N. (2018). Parsing Approaches for Swiss German (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-174602

• 2017

  • Suntharam, S. (2017). Perks and Problems of Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279281
  • Rao, X. (2017). Automatic Labeling of Articles in International Investment Agreements (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279282
  • Gwerder, Y. (2017). Named Entity Recognition in Digitized Historical Texts (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279284
  • Ghoshal, P. (2017). Topic Modeling and Visualisation of Diachronic Trends in Biomedical Academic Articles (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279283
  • Müller, M. (2017). Treatment of Markup in Statistical Machine Translation (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279285
  • Ströbel, P. (2017). The Raison d’Être of Word Embeddings in Identifying Multiword Expressions in Bilingual Corpora (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279286

• 2016

  • Wick, S. S. (2016). Automatic Article Correction in Academic Texts (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279287
  • Rossi, M. (2016). Corpus Linguistics Approaches for Multilingual Discourse (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279288
  • Baffelli, C. (2016). An Annotation Pipeline for Italian based on Dependency Parsing (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279289
  • Baumgartner, R. (2016). Morphologieanalyse und standarddeutsche Lemmatisierung für schweizerdeutsche Alltagstexte mit gewichteten Transduktoren (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279290
  • Colic, N. (2016). Dependency Parsing for Relation Extraction in Biomedical Literature (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279292
  • Pajovic, D. (2016). ACQDIVIZ - Visualizing Development In Longitudinal First Language Acquisition Data (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279291

• 2015

  • Batinic, D. (2015). Words in Mind and Words in Language (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279293

• 2014

  • Weibel, M. (2014). Aufbau paralleler Korpora und Implementierung eines wortalignierten Suchsystems für Deutsch – Rumantsch Grischun (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279294

• 2013

  • Tron, S. (2013). A verb-centered Sentiment Analysis for French (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279296
  • Furrer, L. (2013). Unsupervised Text Segmentation for Correcting OCR Errors (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279297