Sentiment Analysis

• Sentiment Analysis for Twitter: Supervised Machine Learning
• Extraktion von Prädikat-Argumentstrukturen aus komplexen NPs
• weitere Themen

Computer-Assisted Language Learning

• The Automatic Detection of Learner Errors and Difficulties

(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

Normalization/Morphology

• Using neural networks for spelling normalisation
• Multilingual morphological analysis

Speech and Machine Learning

• Swiss German Speech-to-Text
• Spoken language chunking for Swiss German

Second Language Acquisition (contact: Prof. Dr. Volker Dellwo)

• Automatic assessment of vocabulary richness in a second language
• Tone Detection in Mandarin Speech with Machine Learning Approach for Innovative Computer-Aided Language Learning

Aging and Speech Pathology (contact: Prof. Dr. Volker Dellwo)

• Temporal processing in aging
• The effect of aging on speech production (contact: Dr. Elisa Pellegrino)

Sociophonetics and Dialectology (contact: Prof. Dr. Stephan Schmid)

• Variants of /r/ in the Cantons of Basel-City and Basel-Country: a sociophonetic survey
• VoiceOffsetTime as a cue to the fortis-lenis distinction in Swiss German: acoustic and laryngographic evidence

Speech Signal Processing (contact: Prof. Dr. Volker Dellwo)

• 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)
• Tone Detection in Mandarin Speech with Machine Learning Approach for Innovative Computer-Aided Language Learning (contact: Sandra Schwab)
• Combining speech recognition system and automatic prominence detection for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (contact: 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)

Misc

• Automatic Classification of Large Text Collections

Machine Translation

• There are no open thesis projects at the moment. However, do not hesitate to get in touch with people who could supervise a thesis on this topic (see below).

 

• Language Technology for Heritage Texts (Martin Volk)
• Machine Translation (Martin Volk, Rico Sennrich, Annette Rios, Mathias Müller)
• Toponym Recognition (Martin Volk)
• Speech (Volker Dellwo)
• Machine Learning (Simon Clematide)
• Large News Corpora (Simon Clematide)
• Digital Humanities (Gerold Schneider, Simon Clematide)
• Morphology (Simon Clematide, Tanja Samardžić)
• Corpus Linguistics (Gerold Schneider, Tanja Samardžić)
• 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 Samardžić)
• Coreference Resolution (Manfred Klenner)
• Argumentation Mining (Manfred Klenner)
• Sentiment Analysis (SA) (Manfred Klenner)