Bachelor- & Master-Theses

2024

Berna Ilke Erosy: ePub-to-Quiz Conversion with Large Language Models (PDF, 2 MB)
[June 2024, master's thesis, English]
Niclas Bodenmann: (Key) Phrase Extraction with Masked Language Models and Information Theory (PDF, 1 MB)
[January 2024, master's thesis, English]

2023

Jana Mara Hofmann: Predicting Reading Fluency with LSTMs (PDF, 3 MB)
[December 2023, bachelor's thesis, English]
Michelle Wastl: Unsupervised Translation Direction Detection (PDF, 2 MB)
[December 2023, master's thesis, English]
Andreas Säuberli: Automatic Generation and Evaluation of Multiple-Choice Reading Comprehension Items with Large Language Models (PDF, 2 MB)
[December 2023, master's thesis, English]
Elina Stüssi: Part-of-Speech Tagging on 16th Century Latin (PDF, 5 MB)
[December 2023, bachelor's thesis, English]
Iris Zoder: Impact of Lingusitic Versus Data Properties for Swiss German ASR (PDF, 1 MB)
[June 2023, bachelor's thesis, English]
Naomi Bleiker: Evaluation of Pre-trained Metrics and ChatGPT as Document-level Machine Translation Metrics (PDF, 863 KB)
[June 2023, master's thesis, English]
Anja Ryser: Development of a Swiss German Language Sample Analysis Tool - Legal and Ethical Aspects of Data Collection (PDF, 2 MB)
[June 2023, master's thesis, English]
Renate Hauser: Adapting Gender-Inclusive Rewriting Models to Gender-Neutral German (PDF, 440 KB)
[June 2023, bachelor's thesis, English]
Daniela Hofmann: Computergestützte Erkennung von Textwiederverwendung in Schweizer Stellenanzeigen (PDF, 1 MB)
[June 2023, bachelor's thesis, English]
Sarah Kiener: Schneeschrauben, Himmelbäume, Gartengebäcke. Investigating and Enhancing the Sensitivity of Trained Neural Metrics to German Compounds (PDF, 874 KB)
[June 2023, master's thesis, English]
Sooyeon Cho: Attention Biasing for Knowledge-enhanced Review Response Generation (PDF, 999 KB)
[June 2023, master's thesis, English]
Laura Stahlhut: Inferring text comprehension from eye movements in reading using deep neural sequence models (PDF, 4 MB)
[June 2023, master's thesis, English]
Ahmet Uluslu: Exploring Hybrid Linguistic Features for Automatic Readability Assessment in Turkish
[June 2023, master's thesis, English]

2022

Luisa Wunderlin: Adversarial Attacks in German Hate Speech Detection (PDF, 1 MB)
[December 2022, bachelor's thesis, English]
Sabrina Brändle: Machine Translation of Complex Sentences from Latin to German (PDF, 732 KB)
[December 2022, master's thesis, English]
Eirini Valkana: Code-switching detection in the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing (1375-1800) (PDF, 831 KB)
[December 2022, master's thesis, English]
Rebecka Fahrni: Evaluation of the Application of the Open-Source Python Toolbox MNE for the Assessment of Neural Processing of Degraded Speech from Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (PDF, 6 MB)
[December 2022, bachelor's thesis, English]
Moritz Preisig: Analysing Social Media comments with Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Learning Techniques (PDF, 695 KB)
[December 2022, bachelor's thesis, English]
Salome Wildermuth: Modeling dialogues for querying orofacial pain patients (PDF, 569 KB)
[December 2022, bachelor's thesis, English]
Kim Hai Dinh: Medical Chatbot: A Hybrid Task-Oriented Dialogue System for Collecting Dental Healthcare Data by using T5 to Generate Questions (PDF, 568 KB)
[December 2022, bachelor's thesis, English]
Wenyuan Wu: Cross-lingual Projection of Text Zoning Labels for Job Advertisements (PDF, 7 MB)
[December 2022, master's thesis, English]
Lucas Seiler: Sentence Compression in Machine Translation (PDF, 325 KB)
[December 2022, bachelor's thesis, English]
Helen Schaller: Respond in Style: Personalising Review Response Generation by Optimising Continuous Prefixes (PDF, 2 MB)
[December 2022, master's thesis, English]
Eyal Dolev: Using Multilingual Word Embeddings for Similarity-Based Word Alignments in a Zero-Shot Setting Tested on the Case of German–Romansh (PDF, 3 MB)
[August 2022, master's thesis, English]
Victor Bielawski: Improving comprehensibility of rule-based text-to-speech output: eSpeak-NG and Polish (PDF, 707 KB)
[July 2022, bachelor's thesis, English]
Ismail Prada: Telling News from Chatter: Automated Multi-Label Classification of 16th Century Documents (PDF, 1 MB)
[June 2022, master's thesis, English]
Sofia Carpentieri:
Computer-Assisted Diagnostics of Developmental Language Disorder in German-Speaking Children (PDF, 445 KB)
[June 2022, bachelor's thesis, English]
Gian Radler: Improving Optical Character Recognition Output by Using a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Model (PDF, 326 KB)
[June 2022, bachelor's thesis, English]
Berna Ilke Ersoy: Quantifying the Polarity of Noun Phrases (PDF, 664 KB)
[June 2022, bachelor's thesis, English]
Deborah Jakobi: Grapheme-to-Phoneme Mapping in Text (PDF, 1 MB)
[May 2022, master's thesis, English]
Christina Maria Müller: Comparison of rule compliance in corpora for the Austrian and Brazilian Easy Languages (PDF, 420 KB)
[March 2022, CAS report, English]
Zifan Jiang: Machine Translation between Spoken Languages and Signed Languages in Written Form (PDF, 2 MB)
[February 2022, master's thesis, English]

2021

Camille Watter: VOT of bilabial and alveolar stops in Zurich German: a sociophonetic study (PDF, 8 MB)
[December 2021, master's thesis, English]
Luca Salini: Maschinelle Übersetzungssysteme von Französisch in die Schweizer Standardvarietät (PDF, 183 KB)
[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 (PDF, 1 MB)
[June 2021, master's thesis, English]
Vera Bernhard: Automatic Lexical Stress Detection in Isolated English Words (PDF, 520 KB)
Awarded with the Semester Award UZH spring semester 21 (FS21). Congratulations!
[June 2021, bachelor's thesis, 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 (PDF, 2 MB)
[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 (PDF, 2 MB)
[July 2020, bachelor's thesis, English]
Anja Ryser: Erstellung und Alignierung eines parallelen Korpus auf der Basis von “The Times in Plain English” (PDF, 387 KB)
[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 (PDF, 1 MB)
[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]