Bachelor and 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]

• 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]