Open Topics for BA/MA Theses & Programming Projects
Text Technologies
Computer-Assisted Language Learning (contact: Prof Gerold Schneider)
(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
- Quantifying views about the future during the latest Digital Revolution (1998-2020)
- Text Reuse Detection (BA Thesis)
Sign Language Processing (contact: Dr Mathias Müller)
- Master thesis: language modeling with pose estimation data for sign language processing
- Programming project: improve open-source libraries for sign language processing
Normalization/Morphology
Misc
- Automatic Classification of Large Text Collections
- Multilingual resolution of abbreviations (contact: Jannis Vamvas)
- Digital Drama Simulation (contact: Jannis Vamvas)
Machine Translation (contact: Prof Rico Sennrich)
- Measure effect of machine translation quality on downstream performance
- Automatic error analysis for speech translation
- Reproduce (and find limits of) recent publications
- Unsupervised Translation Direction Detection (contact: Jannis Vamvas)
Sentiment Analysis (SA) (contact: Dr Manfred Klenner)
- Sentiment Inference as Textual Entailment
- Sentiment Inference: Identify micro stance
- SA for speech synthesis of direct speech
- SA in literary texts
- Extracting predicate argument structures from complex NPs
- Other topics from SA are possible as well
Speech and Machine Learning (contact : Tanja Samardzić)
Phonetics & Speech Sciences
Second Language Acquisition (contact: Prof Volker Dellwo)
There are no open thesis projects at the moment. However, do not hesitate to contact Prof Dellwo or other staff members from the Phonetics & Speech Sciences Group if you are interested in this topic.
Aging and Speech Pathology (contact: Prof Volker Dellwo)
- Temporal processing in aging
- The effect of aging on speech production (contact: Dr Elisa Pellegrino)
Sociophonetics and Dialectology (contact: Prof Stephan Schmid)
- Variants of /r/ in the Canton of Basel-Country: a sociophonetic survey
- Intonational patterns of Multiethnolectal Zurich German
- Is vowel lengthening in Italian allophonic or prosodic?
Speech Signal Processing (contact: Prof Volker Dellwo)
- Natural deceptive speech phonological analysis (contact: Alessandro De Luca)
- Use of intonation for voice recognition in tone and non-tone languages
- 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)
- Automatic prominence detection in English L2 (contact: Dr Sandra Schwab; co-supervision with Jean-Philippe Goldman, University of Geneva)
- Automatic segmentation of child speech in noisy environment" (contact: Dr Sandra Schwab; co-supervision with Nathalie Dherbey Chapuis, University of Fribourg)
- Combining speech recognition system and automatic prominence detection for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (contact: Dr Sandra Schwab)
- The effect of voice conversion technique on speakers' identity (contact: Dr Elisa Pellegrino)
- The effect of group size on phonetic convergence and speaker individuality (contact: Dr Elisa Pellegrino)
Speech Production (contact: Dr Daniel Friedrichs)
- Assessing the relationship between anatomy and speech movements
Neural Processing of Speech (contact: Dr Daniel Friedrichs)
- Evaluating mobile fNIRS as a neuroimaging technique in speech & hearing science
Digital Linguistics
Experimental Psycholinguistics (contact: Prof. Dr. Lena A. Jäger)
- The impact of cognitive states on sentence processing
- Methodological comparison between eye-tracking and self-paced reading for psycholinguistic research
- Investigating the implications of the animacy hierarchy in German
Computational psycholinguistics / Computational Cognitive Science (contact: Prof. Dr. Lena A. Jäger)
- Comparing human and machine surprisal
- Inferring subjective vs objective text difficulty from eye movements in reading
Cognitively Enhanced / Interpretablee NLP (contact: Prof. Dr. Lena A. Jäger)
- Predicting text comprehension from eye movements in reading
- Detection of mental and physical fatigue from eye movements in reading
- Detection of alcoholization from eye movements in reading
- Personality classification from eye movements in reading
- Predicting programming skills from eye movements in code reading
- Deep neural feature representation of eye-tracking data
- Predicting foreign language proficiency from eye movements in reading
Computational Neuroscience of Speech & Hearing
*** Prof Nathalie Giroud is currently on maternity leave (HS 2022). ***
Further contact persons for specific areas
- Language Technology for Heritage Texts (Martin Volk)
- Machine Translation (Martin Volk, Rico Sennrich, Annette Rios, Mathias Müller)
- Toponym Recognition (Martin Volk)
- Speech & Voice (Volker Dellwo)
- Machine Learning (Simon Clematide)
- Large News Corpora (Simon Clematide)
- Digital Humanities (Gerold Schneider, Simon Clematide)
- Morphology (Simon Clematide, Tanja Samardzić)
- Corpus Linguistics (Gerold Schneider, Tanja Samardzić)
- CALL (Computer-assisted Language Learning) (Gerold Schneider, Manfred Klenner)
- Automatic Processing of Sign Language (Sarah Ebling, Annette Rios, Mathias Müller)
- Language Technology for Accessibility (Sarah Ebling)
- Processing of Swiss German (Tanja Samardzić)
- Coreference Resolution (Manfred Klenner)
- Argumentation Mining (Manfred Klenner)
- Sentiment Analysis (SA) (Manfred Klenner)
- Experimental psycholinguistics (Lena A. Jäger)
- Computational psycholinguistics / Computational cognitive science (Lena A. Jäger)
- Cognitively enhanced/interpretable NLP (Lena A. Jäger)