Theses

List of completed EMLCT graduate student theses listed by submission date.

2023

Name: Saad Obaid ul Islam
Title: Tackling Hallucinations in Chart Summarization
Supervisor: Vera Demberg
Co-Supervisor: Ondrej Dusek
Submitted in: 2023
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Evgeniya Ustinova
Title: Automatic detection and attribution of quotes
Supervisor:
Co-Supervisor:
Submitted in: 2023
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

2022

Name: Niyati Bafna
Title: Empirical Models for Language Continuum
Supervisor:
Co-Supervisor: Zdeněk Žabokrtský
Submitted in: 2022
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Maximilian Gutsche
Title: Highlight detection in live streams using audience reactions with transformer language models
Supervisor: Dr. Marc Tanti
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eneko Agirre
Submitted in: 2022
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Michael Hanna
Title: Investigating Large Language Models' Representations Of Plurality Through Probing Interventions
Supervisor:
Co-Supervisor: David Marecek
Submitted in: 2022
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Anna Kriukova
Title: Measuring readability of technical texts
Supervisor:
Co-Supervisor: Silvie Cinková
Submitted in: 2022
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Vilém Zouhar
Title: Shrinking Knowledge Base Size: Dimension Reduction, Splitting & Filtering
Supervisor: Dietrich Klakow
Co-Supervisor: Gosse Bouma
Submitted in: 2022
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

2021

Name: Christian Cayralat
Title: Orthography Standardization in Arabic Dialects
Supervisor: Prof Daniel Zeman
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Josef van Genabith
Submitted in: 2021
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Aditya Kurniawan
Title: Adapting Pretrained Models for Machine Translation
Supervisor: Ondřej Bojar
Co-Supervisor:
Submitted in: 2021
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

2020

Name: Akshay Aggarwal
Title: Consistency of Linguistic Annotation
Supervisor: Daniel Zeman
Co-Supervisor: Koldo Gojenola
Submitted in: 2020
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Marion Bartl
Title: The Association of Gender Bias with BERT - Measuring, Mitigating and Cross-lingual Portability
Supervisor: Malvina Nissim
Co-Supervisor: Albert Gatt
Submitted in: 2020
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Marta Carletti
Title: Modeling Disagreement in Dialogue: An Adapted SDRT Approach
Supervisor: Lucia Donatelli
Co-Supervisor: Alexander Koller
Submitted in: 2020
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: YU-WEN CHEN
Title: Automatic Detection of Different Types of Translation Based on Tranlationese Features
Supervisor: Antonio Toral
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Josef van Genabith
Submitted in: 2020
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Micha de Rijk
Title: Codenames: a practical application for modelling word association
Supervisor: David Mareček
Co-Supervisor: Gosse Bouma
Submitted in: 2020
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Nina Hosseinikivanani
Title: A deep learning approach to spoken proficiency scoring for non-native speakers
Supervisor: Dr. Carlo Strapparava
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Tommaso Caselli
Submitted in: 2020
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Guido Linders
Title: Modeling Alternative Sets with Recurrent Neural Networks
Supervisor: Dr. Roberto Zamparelli
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Matthew Crocker
Submitted in: 2020
Link: Thesis


Name: Siyana Pavlova
Title: NLP Methods to Automate Language Learning Through Extensive Reading
Supervisor: Prof. Günther Neumann
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Josef van Genabith
Submitted in: 2020
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Simon Preissner
Title: Similar, but Different: Unsupervised Detection of Semantic Shifts in Diachronic Word Embeddings
Supervisor: Prof. Elke Teich
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Aurelie Herbelot
Submitted in: 2020
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: MD ATAUR RAHMAN
Title: Exploring features for Multi-label Hate Speech Detection
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dietrich Klakow
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Malvina Nissim
Submitted in: 2020
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Gaetana Ruggiero
Title: Datasets and Models for Authorship Attribution on Italian Personal Writings
Supervisor: Malvina Nissim
Co-Supervisor: Albert Gatt
Submitted in: 2020
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Xiao Xu
Title: Multilingual Classification for Legal Prediction
Supervisor: Martijn Wieling
Co-Supervisor: German Rigau
Submitted in: 2020
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

2019

Name: Angelo Basile
Title: The Social Distribution of Words in Social Media
Supervisor: Dr. Albert Gatt
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Malvina Nissim
Submitted in: 2019
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Ronald Cardenas Acosta
Title: Morphological Process Transduction: Towards interpretable multi-lingual morphological analysis
Supervisor: Daniel Zeman
Co-Supervisor: Claudia Borg
Submitted in: 2019
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Natallia Chaiko
Title: Speech Emotion Recognition using Machine Learning algorithms
Supervisor: Prof. Eva Navas
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Roberto Zamparelli
Submitted in: 2019
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: María Andrea Cruz BlandÃn
Title: A multilingual approach towards improving the linguistic module of a TTS system: Case Navarro-Lapurdian dialect
Supervisor: Prof. Inma Hernaez Rioja
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Denis Jouvet
Submitted in: 2019
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Sandipana Dowerah
Title: Deep Learning for Robust and Reliable Grapheme-to-Phoneme Converter
Supervisor: Denis Jouvet
Co-Supervisor: Vincent Colotte
Submitted in: 2019
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Meisyarah Dwiastuti
Title: Indonesian-English Neural Machine Translation
Supervisor: Martin Popel
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Josef van Genabith
Submitted in: 2019
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Daniel Kondratyuk
Title: Multilingual Learning using Syntactic Multi-Task Training
Supervisor: Prof. Milan Straka
Co-Supervisor: Prof. G�nter Neumann
Submitted in: 2019
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Elizaveta Kuzmenko
Title: Meaning shifts in distributional models: do we speak the way the world is?
Supervisor: Aurelie Herbelot
Co-Supervisor: Johan Bos
Submitted in: 2019
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Kenny Lino
Title: An investigation of accent conversion for non-native and native varieties of English
Supervisor: Dr. Claudia Borg
Co-Supervisor: Eva Navas
Submitted in: 2019
Link: Thesis


Name: Gosse Minnema
Title: Referentiality in distributional representations of named events
Supervisor: Dr. Aur�lie Herbelot
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Yannick Parmentier
Submitted in: 2019
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Aria Nourbakhsh
Title: Cross-genre gender identification: A comparison of lexical and non-lexical models
Supervisor: Prof. Malvina Nissim
Co-Supervisor: Rob van der Groot
Submitted in: 2019
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Maria Obedkova
Title: Data-Driven Pronunciation Generation for ASR
Supervisor: Ond�ej Pl�tek
Co-Supervisor: Eva Navas
Submitted in: 2019
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Josine Rawee
Title: The Color Subspace in Distributional Semantics
Supervisor: Aurelie Herbelot
Co-Supervisor: Johan Bos
Submitted in: 2019
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Jovana Uroševic
Title: Cross-lingual Model Transfer for Neural Semantic Role Labeling
Supervisor: Dr. Lonneke van der Plas
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Eneko Agrirre
Submitted in: 2019
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Claudia Zaghi
Title: Automatic detection of hate speech in social media
Supervisor: Prof. Malvina Nissim
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Albert Gatt
Submitted in: 2019
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

2018

Name: Mostafa Abdou
Title: An investigation of the task of Universal Semantic Tagging using Neural Architectures, Multi-task Learning, and Multi-lingual Learning
Supervisor:
Co-Supervisor: Barbora Vidov� Hladk�
Submitted in: 2018
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Badr Mohammed Badr Abdullah
Title: Leveraging Word Contexts in Wikipedia for Out-of-Vocabulary Proper Nouns Recovery in Speech Recognition
Supervisor: Prof. Irina ILLINA
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dietrich KLAKOW
Submitted in: 2018
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Xiaoyu Bai
Title: Automatic Classification of English Learner Proficiency Using Elicted Versus Spontaneous Data
Supervisor: Dr. Malvina Nissim
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Albert Gatt
Submitted in: 2018
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Carlos Fernando Diez Sánchez
Title: Automatic Correction of Multilingual Proposition Banks for Semantic Role Labelling
Supervisor: Dr. Lonneke Van der Plas
Co-Supervisor: German Rigau
Submitted in: 2018
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Joan Ginés i Ametllé
Title: Universal semantic tagging methods and their applications
Supervisor: Prof. Johan Bos
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dietrich Klakow
Submitted in: 2018
Link: Thesis


Name: REYHANEH HASHEMPOUR
Title: From Word Vectors to Sentence Vectors
Supervisor: Lonneke van der Plas
Co-Supervisor: Arantza Otegi
Submitted in: 2018
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: somayeh Jafaritazehjani
Title: From Entailment to Generation: Generating sentences entailed by visual and textual input
Supervisor: Dr.Albert Gatt
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Claire Gardent
Submitted in: 2018
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Yauhen Klimovich
Title: Neural Networks for reading comprehension applied to non-factoid question answering
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Moschitti
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. GÃnter Neumann
Submitted in: 2018
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Ajinkya Kulkarni
Title: Expressive speech synthesis based on transfer of prosodic information
Supervisor: Denis Jouvet
Co-Supervisor: Vincent Colotte
Submitted in: 2018
Link: Thesis


Name: Artur Kulmizev
Title: Multilingual Word Embeddings and Their Utility in Cross-lingual Learning
Supervisor: Eneko Agirre
Co-Supervisor: Gertjan van Noord
Submitted in: 2018
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Daniel Mark Low
Title: Text Categorization in Humans and Machines
Supervisor: Scott Laurence Fairhall
Co-Supervisor: Barbara Plank
Submitted in: 2018
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Adedayo Oluokun
Title: Creation of a Dependency Treebank for Yoruba using Parallel Data
Supervisor: Daniel Zeman
Co-Supervisor:
Submitted in: 2018
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Thuong-Hai Pham
Title: Exploiting Sentense Structure in Neural Machine Translation
Supervisor: OndÅej Bojar
Co-Supervisor:
Submitted in: 2018
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Vinit Ravishankar
Title: Parsing of Texts with Code-Switching
Supervisor: Daniel Zeman
Co-Supervisor:
Submitted in: 2018
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Anastasia Serebryannikova
Title: Predicting Stock Market Trends from News Articles
Supervisor: Vladislav KuboÅ
Co-Supervisor: Malvina Nissim
Submitted in: 2018
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Svetlana Tchistiakova
Title: Acoustic Models for Second Language Learners
Supervisor: Dr. Massimo Zancanaro,
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dietrich Klakow
Submitted in: 2018
Link: Thesis


Name: Ludmila Tydlitátová
Title: Adverse Event Detection in Medical Literature using Distant Supervision
Supervisor: Dr. Martijn Wieling, Dr. Gosse Bouma
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dietrich Klakow
Submitted in: 2018
Link: Thesis


Name: Hoa Vu Trong
Title: Grounding Natural Language Inference on Images
Supervisor:
Co-Supervisor: Pavel Pecina
Submitted in: 2018
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Liqin Zhang
Title: A More Sensitive Edit-Distance for Measuring Pronunciation Distances and Detecting Loanwords
Supervisor: John Nerbonne (RUG)
Co-Supervisor: Ray Fabri (UoM)
Submitted in: 2018
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

2017

Name: Pinar Arslan
Title: Using Linguistic Features and External Lexical Resources for Improving Sentence-­‐ level Sentiment Classification
Supervisor: Malvina Nissim
Co-Supervisor: Oier Lopez De Lacalle
Submitted in: 2017
Link: Thesis


Name: Laura-Ana-Maria Bostan
Title: Ingredient-driven Recipe Generation Using Neural and Distributional Models
Supervisor: Dr. Roberto Zamparellli
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef van Genabith
Submitted in: 2017
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: YI-LING CHUNG
Title: Automatic Generation of Named Entity Taggers Leveraging Parallel Corpora
Supervisor: Rodrigo Agerri
Co-Supervisor: Gunter Neumann
Submitted in: 2017
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Erdenesuvd Dashjamts
Title: Classification of folktales according to dietary preferences
Supervisor: Josef van Genabith, Thierry DeClerck
Co-Supervisor: Theo Meder and Gosse Bouma
Submitted in: 2017
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Gareth Dwyer
Title: Novel Approaches to Authorship Attribution
Supervisor: Malvina Nissim
Co-Supervisor: Dietrich Klakow
Submitted in: 2017
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Aina Garí Soler
Title: Modelling Di erences between Near-Synonyms and its Application to Paraphrasing with Formality
Supervisor: Lonneke van der Plas
Co-Supervisor: Dietrich Klakow
Submitted in: 2017
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Olga Leticevscaia
Title: The effects of attentional load on contextual facilitation of object perception
Supervisor: Marius Vincent Peelen
Co-Supervisor: Talia Brandman
Submitted in: 2017
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Yiqing Liang
Title: Exploiting a knowledge-based probabilistic model for optimally combining alternative NERC and Entity Linking candidate annotations on the same textual mention
Supervisor: Paolo Bouquet
Co-Supervisor: Francesco Corcoglioniti
Submitted in: 2017
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Maria Medvedeva
Title: Large-Scale Language Identification for Closely Related Languages
Supervisor: Dietrich Klakow
Co-Supervisor: Barbara Plank
Submitted in: 2017
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Jonathan Oberländer
Title: Splitting Word Compounds
Supervisor: Pavel Pecina
Co-Supervisor: Roberto Zamparelli
Submitted in: 2017
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Liu Ruixue
Title: A Neural Approach for Thematic Role-Fillers Prediction Based on Context Information
Supervisor: Vera Demberg
Co-Supervisor: Denis Paperno
Submitted in: 2017
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: David Smith
Title: Can You See the (Linguistic) Difference? Exploring Mass/Count Distinction in Vision
Supervisor: Raffaella Bernardi
Co-Supervisor: IÃaki inza
Submitted in: 2017
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Mahsa Vafaie
Title: Dialect normalisation with deep learning-based automatic speech recognition
Supervisor: Inma Hernaez
Co-Supervisor: Josef Van Genabith
Submitted in: 2017
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Isolde van Dorst
Title: You, thou and thee: A statistical analysis of Shakespeares use of pronominal address terms
Supervisor: Albert Gatt
Co-Supervisor: Gosse Bouma
Submitted in: 2017
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: dm Csaba Varga
Title: Domain Adaptation for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
Supervisor: van Genabith and Cristina Espa�a i Bonet
Co-Supervisor: Gorka Labaka
Submitted in: 2017
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

2016

Name: Elena Badmaeva
Title: Universal Dependencies for Buryat
Supervisor: Koldo Gojenola
Co-Supervisor: Francis Tyers, Gosse Bouma
Submitted in: 2016
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Talvany Carlotto
Title: Repeating Syntax on Reddit
Supervisor: Gregory Mills
Co-Supervisor: Aitor Soroa
Submitted in: 2016
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Anna Currey
Title: Language Model Contextualization for Automatic Speech Recognition by Dynamic Adjustment
Supervisor: Dominique FOHR
Co-Supervisor: Dietrich KLAKOW
Submitted in: 2016
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Boyuan Deng
Title: Determining Confidence Measures on Fundamental Frequency Estimations
Supervisor: Dr. Denis Jouvet (UL)
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Ingmar Steiner (UdS)
Submitted in: 2016
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Kristy James
Title: Watch your tongue and read my lips: a real-time, multi-modal visualisation of articulatory data
Supervisor: Ingmar Steiner
Co-Supervisor: Martijn Wieling
Submitted in: 2016
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Alicia Krebs
Title: Capturing Discriminate Attributes in a Distributional Space
Supervisor: Denis Paperno
Co-Supervisor: Malvina Nissim
Submitted in: 2016
Link: Thesis


Name: Martin Kroon
Title: AUTOMATED MULTILINGUAL COGNATE RECOGNITION & TRANSITION-RULE EXTRACTION
Supervisor: Eva Buchi
Co-Supervisor: Gosse Bouma
Submitted in: 2016
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Thanh Le
Title: Development of trainable policies for spoken dialogue systems
Supervisor: Prof. Filip Jurcicek
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Raffaella Bernardi
Submitted in: 2016
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Alice Leung
Title: Evaluating Automatic Keyword Extraction for Internet Reviews
Supervisor: Miguel Couceiro, UL
Co-Supervisor: German Rigau UBC, Matt Woodward, Chief Technical Officer at RealSelf
Submitted in: 2016
Link: Thesis


Name: Felicia Oberarzbacher
Title: Emotional Language in Persuasive Communication
Supervisor: Dr. Carlo Strapparava
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Raffaella Bernardi
Submitted in: 2016
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Ngoc-Quan Pham
Title: CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK LANGUAGE MODELS
Supervisor: Marco Baroni
Co-Supervisor: Gemma Boleda
Submitted in: 2016
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Ilana Rampula
Title: Semantic Relation Extraction from Unstructured Data in the Business Domain
Supervisor: RNDr. Pavel Pecina
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Gosse Bouma
Submitted in: 2016
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Anastasia Shimorina
Title: Generating Stories from Different Event Orders: A Statistical Approach
Supervisor: Dr. Albert Gatt
Co-Supervisor:
Submitted in: 2016
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Ionut-Teodor Sorodoc
Title: Learning to quantify from images
Supervisor: Raffaella Bernardi
Co-Supervisor: Mike Rosner
Submitted in: 2016
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Anastasiia Tsukanova
Title: A Coarticulation Model for Articulatory Speech Synthesis
Supervisor: Yves Laprie
Co-Supervisor: Mike Rosner (local advisor)
Submitted in: 2016
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Esther van den Berg
Title: Noisy Label Neural Network Approach to Named Entity Recognition
Supervisor: Dietrich Klakow
Co-Supervisor: Barbara Planck
Submitted in: 2016
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

2015

Name: Betl Aksu
Title: An Eye-Tracking Study: Combining Metaphor Comprehension Models with Knowledge Mismatch
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Matthew Crocker
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Carlo Strapparava
Submitted in: 2015
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Feraena Bibyna
Title: Query expansion for medical information retrieval
Supervisor: dr. Pecina
Co-Supervisor: Günter Neumann
Submitted in: 2015
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Ngoc Do
Title: Neural Networks for Automatic Speaker, Language and Sex Identi cation
Supervisor: Filip Jurccek, Ph.D.
Co-Supervisor:
Submitted in: 2015
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Min Fang
Title: Learning to rank candidates for job offers using field relevance models
Supervisor: Malvina Nissim
Co-Supervisor: Dietrich Klakow
Submitted in: 2015
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Antonio F Garcia Sevilla
Title: An online collaborative platform for the linguistic development of computational grammars
Supervisor: Mike Rosner, University of Malta
Co-Supervisor: Alexandr Rosen, Charles University
Submitted in: 2015
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Manuela Huerlimann
Title: When What Improves on Where: Using Lexical Knowledge to Predict Spatial Relations in Images
Supervisor: Johan Bos
Co-Supervisor: Marco Baroni
Submitted in: 2015
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Artuur Leeuwenberg
Title: Synonym Extraction with Minimal Supervision
Supervisor: Josef van Genabith
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Mihaela Vela, Dr. Jon Dehdari
Submitted in: 2015
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Omid Moradiannasab
Title: Automatic Context-Relevant Off-Activity Talk Suggestion for Dialogue Contribution
Supervisor: Günter Neumann
Co-Supervisor: Johan Bos
Submitted in: 2015
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Tien Dat Nguyen
Title: Toward concept visualization through image generation
Supervisor: Prof. Marco Baroni
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Raffaela Bernardi, Prof. Pavel Pecina, PhD Angeliki Lazaridou
Submitted in: 2015
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Benno Weck
Title: Assessing the Impact of Manual Corrections in the Groningen Meaning Bank
Supervisor: Johan Bos
Co-Supervisor: Marketa Lopatkova
Submitted in: 2015
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

2014

Name: Kim Heiligenstein
Title: Playing with properties. Visual concept representation with semantically- derived text-extracted properties
Supervisor: Marco Baroni
Co-Supervisor: Gosse Bouma
Submitted in: 2014
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Sara Francisca van de Moosdijk
Title: Mining texts at the discourse level
Supervisor:
Co-Supervisor: RNDr. Pavel Pecina, Ph.D.
Submitted in: 2014
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

2013

Name: Franky -
Title: Methods for Creating Subjectivity Lexicon for Indonesian
Supervisor:
Co-Supervisor: Ondr'ej Bojar
Submitted in: 2013
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Georgi Boychev
Title: Case Inflection in Koalib: Discovering the Rules
Supervisor: Claire Gardent
Co-Supervisor: Gosse Bouma
Submitted in: 2013
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Joachim Daiber
Title: Robust Parsing of Noisy Content
Supervisor: prof Gertjan van Noord
Co-Supervisor: RNDr. Daniel Zeman
Submitted in: 2013
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Spandana Gella
Title: Word usages and patterns in social media
Supervisor: Tim Baldwin
Co-Supervisor: Mike Rosner
Submitted in: 2013
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Daan Henselmans
Title: Natural Language Generation of Tense and Aspect in a Narrative Context
Supervisor: Albert Gatt
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Buseman
Submitted in: 2013
Link: Thesis


Name: Carmen Klaussner
Title: Title ofShedding Light on Dickens' Style through Independent Component Analysis and Representativeness and Distincitiveness.
Supervisor: prof John Nerbonne
Co-Supervisor:
Submitted in: 2013
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Mariya Koleva
Title: Towards Adaptation of NLP Tools for Closely-Related Bantu Languages: Building a Part-of-Speech Tagger for Zulu
Supervisor: Prof. Dietrich Klakow
Co-Supervisor: Alexis Palmer
Submitted in: 2013
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Adam Liška
Title: Semantic spaces from images
Supervisor: Marco Baroni
Co-Supervisor:
Submitted in: 2013
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Duong Thanh Long
Title: Universal POS Tagger
Supervisor: dr.Pavel Pecina, Ph.D.
Co-Supervisor:
Submitted in: 2013
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Jiri Marsik
Title: Towards a Wide-Coverage Grammar: Graphical Abstract Categorial Grammars
Supervisor: Maxime Amblard
Co-Supervisor:
Submitted in: 2013
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Desmond Darma Putra
Title: Answer Extraction Module for Question Answering Gaming Application
Supervisor: Prof. Dietrich Klakow
Co-Supervisor:
Submitted in: 2013
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Yishay Raz
Title: Automatic Humor Classification on Twitter
Supervisor: Prof. Li, Fang
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dietrich Klakow
Submitted in: 2013
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Marina Valeeva
Title: Annotation of Factors of Linguistic Quality for Multi-Document Summarization
Supervisor: Prof. Manfred Pinkal
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Alexis Palmer
Submitted in: 2013
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Yudong ZHOU
Title: Fine-grained Sentiment Analysis with Discourse Structure
Supervisor: Prof. Manfred Pinkal
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Alexis Palmer
Submitted in: 2013
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

2012

Name: Martin Boroš
Title: Using knowledge from Wikipedia to Improve Document Classification
Supervisor: dr Tianfang Yao
Co-Supervisor: dr Gosse Bouma
Submitted in: 2012
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: ilyas Celik
Title: Using Language Models for Improving Sentence Retrieval in TAC KBP
Supervisor: Prof. Dietrich Klakow
Co-Supervisor:
Submitted in: 2012
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: THI NGOC QUYNH DO
Title: A graph model for text analysis and text mining
Supervisor: Amedeo Napoli
Co-Supervisor:
Submitted in: 2012
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Nikolaos Engonopoulos
Title: Linguistic Complexity and Cognitive Load in a Dual-Task Context
Supervisor: Dr. Vera Demberg
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Asad Sayeed
Submitted in: 2012
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Maria Ximena Gutierrez Vasques
Title: Quantifying Determiners from the Distributional Semantics View
Supervisor: Markéta Lopatková
Co-Supervisor:
Submitted in: 2012
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Laura Handojo
Title: Learning Information Extraction Rules with Sequential Patterns: a Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation
Supervisor: Yannick Toussaint
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Gosse Bouma
Submitted in: 2012
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Annisa Ihsani
Title: Automatic Induction of Background Knowledge Axioms for Recognising Textual Entailment
Supervisor: prof johan bos
Co-Supervisor: prof mike rosner
Submitted in: 2012
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Ilya Kashkarev
Title: Aligning mildly context-sensitive formalisms for data-driven parsing
Supervisor: Prof. Hans Uszkoreit, Dr. Zhang Yi
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Sylvain Pogodalla
Submitted in: 2012
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Matj Korvas
Title: Extracting Characteristics of Human-produced Video Descriptions
Supervisor: Prof Timothy Baldwin
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Manfred Pinkal
Submitted in: 2012
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Angeliki Lazaridou
Title: A Bayesian Model for Joint Induction of Sentiment, Aspect and Discourse Information
Supervisor: Dr. Ivan Titov
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Caroline Sporleder
Submitted in: 2012
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Dmitrijs Milajevs
Title: Real time discussion retrieval from Twitter
Supervisor: Dr. Gosse Bouma
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dietrich Klakow
Submitted in: 2012
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Paramita Mirza
Title: Exploiting CCG Derivations within Distributional Semantic Models
Supervisor: Sergio Tessaris
Co-Supervisor: Raaella Bernardi
Submitted in: 2012
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Srdjan Prodanovic
Title: Semantic disambiguation using Distributional Semantics
Supervisor: RNDr. Jir´í Hana, Ph.D., Charles University in Prague
Co-Supervisor: Dr Albert Gatt, University of Malta
Submitted in: 2012
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Ronny Ronny
Title: Image-based Language Modeling
Supervisor: Prof. Dietrich Klakow
Co-Supervisor:
Submitted in: 2012
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Nicholas Ruiz
Title: Topic Adaptation for Lecture Translation through Bilingual Latent Semantic Models
Supervisor: Marcello Federico
Co-Supervisor: Gertjan van Noord; Giancarlo Succi
Submitted in: 2012
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Milos Stanojevic
Title: Large-Scale Discriminative Training for Machine Translation into Morphologically-Rich Languages
Supervisor:
Co-Supervisor: RNDr. Ondr'ej Bojar, Ph.D.
Submitted in: 2012
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Manh-Ke Tran
Title: Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Multilingual Learning for Resource-Poor Languages
Supervisor: RNDr. Daniel Zeman
Co-Supervisor: Marco Wiering
Submitted in: 2012
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Nam Khanh Tran
Title: Multimodal fusion for combining textual and visual information in a semantic model
Supervisor: Dr. Marco Baroni
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Manfred Pinkal
Submitted in: 2012
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Simon Šuster
Title: Resolving PP-attachment ambiguity in French with distributional methods
Supervisor: prof CHristophe Cerisara
Co-Supervisor: prof John Nerbonne
Submitted in: 2012
Link: Thesis


2011

Name: Lasha Abzianidze
Title: An HPSG-based Formal Grammar of a Core Fragment of Georgian Implemented in TRALE
Supervisor: Ing. Alexamdr Rosen, PhD
Co-Supervisor: Patrick Blackburn
Submitted in: 2011
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Zoe Bogart
Title: Dissertation: Don`t Let`s Try to Break this Down - Teasing Apart Lexical Chunks
Supervisor: Gertjan van Noord
Co-Supervisor: Mike Rosner
Submitted in: 2011
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Gebrekirstos Gebreselassie
Title: sentiment analysis of news comments
Supervisor: Gosse Bouma
Co-Supervisor: Mike Rosner
Submitted in: 2011
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Nadine Glas
Title: Comparing syntactic representations for stochastic dependency parsing
Supervisor: Gertjan van Noord
Co-Supervisor: Corinna Anderson, Christophe Cerisara
Submitted in: 2011
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Bikash Gyawali
Title: Answering Factoid Questions via Ontologies : A Natural Language Generation Approach
Supervisor: Dr. Albert Gatt
Co-Supervisor: Maxime Amblard
Submitted in: 2011
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Thanh-Le Ha
Title: Lexical-Syntactic Approaches for English-Dutch Cross-lingual Textual Entailment
Supervisor: Prof. Gertjan van Noord
Co-Supervisor: Yashar Mehdad
Submitted in: 2011
Link: Thesis


Name: Zhenghan Hua
Title: Assessing the Credibility of Wikipedia Articles
Supervisor: Alexiei Dingli
Co-Supervisor: Hans Uszkoreit, Valia Kordoni
Submitted in: 2011
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Amir Kamran
Title: Hybrid Machine Translation Approaches for Low-Resource Languages
Supervisor: Mike Rosner, University of Malta
Co-Supervisor: Martin Popel, Charles University in Prague
Submitted in: 2011
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Casey Kennington
Title: Suffix Trees as Language Models
Supervisor: Martin Kay, Jia Xu
Co-Supervisor: Guy Perrier
Submitted in: 2011
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Andreas Seborg Kirkedal
Title: Tree-based hybrid machine translation
Supervisor: Hans Uszkoreit, Christian Federmann, Sabine Hunsicker
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Patrick Blackburn
Submitted in: 2011
Link: Thesis


Name: Tzu-Yi Kuo
Title: Enrich Context Information to Improve Parse Disambiguation Based on HPSG Grammar
Supervisor: Yi Zhang, Hans Uszkoreit
Co-Supervisor: Guy Perrier
Submitted in: 2011
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha
Title: Exploring Higher Order Dependency Parsers
Supervisor: Prof. Mike Rosner
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Zeman, Charles University in Prague
Submitted in: 2011
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Eliza Margaretha
Title: Modeling Thematic Changes in a Collaborative Task-Oriented Dialogue
Supervisor: Geert-Jan Kruijff; Prof. Stephan Busemann
Co-Supervisor:
Submitted in: 2011
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Maria Nadejde
Title: SyntacticWord Reordering For Statistical Machine Translation
Supervisor: Prof. Klakow; Prof. Uszkoreit
Co-Supervisor:
Submitted in: 2011
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Shashi Narayan
Title: RTG Based Surface Realisation from Dependency Representations
Supervisor: Mike Rosner
Co-Supervisor: Claire Gardent
Submitted in: 2011
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Nghia Pham
Title: NLP-based extraction of ontology information from scientific papers on Language Technology
Supervisor: Prof. Hans Uszkoreit
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Ulrich Schaefer, Magdelena Wolska
Submitted in: 2011
Link: Thesis


Name: Victor Santos
Title: Automatic Essay Scoring: Machine Learning Meets Applied Linguistics
Supervisor: Nerbonne/Verspoor
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Pinkal
Submitted in: 2011
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Lilian Wanzare
Title: Feasibility study on using Relational Patterns in Entailment-based Question Answering over Linked data
Supervisor: Prof. Manfred Pinkal
Co-Supervisor:
Submitted in: 2011
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Xiaojun ZHANG
Title: Two-level Parallel Text Extraction from Comparable Corpora
Supervisor: Prof. Hans Uszkoreit
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Maxime Amblard
Submitted in: 2011
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

2010

Name: Jonathan Azose
Title: A Probabilistic Treatment of Entity/Event Coercion Ambiguities
Supervisor: Gertjan van Noord
Co-Supervisor: Manfred Pinkal
Submitted in: 2010
Link: Thesis


Name: MOHAMMAD FAZLEH ELAHI
Title: A Cultural Model from Social Media Data: An Examination of Cross-Cultural Difference with Respect to Language Use
Supervisor: Paola Monachesi
Co-Supervisor: Uszkoreit, Kordoni
Submitted in: 2010
Link: Thesis


Name: Nafid Haque
Title: HLST Dissertation - External Examiner: Harold Somers, University of Manchester
Supervisor: Mike Rosner
Co-Supervisor: Gertjan van Noord
Submitted in: 2010
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Max Jakob
Title: Mapping the Prague Dependency Treebank Annotation Scheme onto Robust Minimal Recursion Semantics
Supervisor: Markéta Lopatková, Ph.D., Charles University in Prague
Co-Supervisor: PD Dr. Valia Kordoni, Saarland University
Submitted in: 2010
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Bushra Jawaid
Title: Statistical Machine Translation between Languages with Significant Word Order Differences
Supervisor: Daniel Zeman
Co-Supervisor: Michael Rosner
Submitted in: 2010
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Olga Kudeykina
Title: Acquisition of impersonal constructions in L2 Russian.
Supervisor: Angeliek van Hout
Co-Supervisor:
Submitted in: 2010
Link: Thesis


Name: Dieu-Thu Le
Title: Named Entity Disambiguation in Digital Libraries
Supervisor: Raffaella Bernardi
Co-Supervisor: Patrick Blackburn and Massimo Poesio
Submitted in: 2010
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Jianqiang Ma
Title: N-gram Feature Generation for Conditional Random Fields based Chinese Word Segmentation
Supervisor: Mike Rosner
Co-Supervisor: Gertjan van Noord
Submitted in: 2010
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Henock Tilahun Teffera
Title: Automatic Construction of Labeled Clusters of Named Entities for Information Retrieval
Supervisor: Gosse Bouma
Co-Supervisor: Valia Kordoni, Hans Uszkoreit
Submitted in: 2010
Link: Thesis


Name: israel wakwoya bayissa
Title: From Data to Knowledge: Semi-automatic Analysis of Heterogeneous Textual Resources over the Web
Supervisor: Gunter Neumann, Hans Uszkoreit
Co-Supervisor: Yannick Toussaint, Amadeo Napoli
Submitted in: 2010
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Xuchen Yao
Title: Question Generation with Minimal Recursion Semantics
Supervisor:
Co-Supervisor: Gosse Bouma, Yi Zhang, Prof. Hans Uszkoreit
Submitted in: 2010
Link: Thesis


2009

Name: Zeeshan Ahmed
Title: Annotation of Textual documents guided by domain ontologies
Supervisor: Yannick Toussaint, University of Nancy 2
Co-Supervisor: Martin Holub, Prague
Submitted in: 2009
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Pranesh Bhargava
Title: Relating Sound to Language
Supervisor: Dr. Tjeerd Andringa, University of Groningen
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Mike Rosner, University of Malta
Submitted in: 2009
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Md. Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury
Title: Exploiting treebanking decisions for parse disambiguation
Supervisor: Dr. Valia Kordoni, Saarland University, Prof. Hans Uszkoreit
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Yi Zhang
Submitted in: 2009
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Le Thanh Dinh
Title: Question and Answer Classifier for closed domain Interactive Question Answering
Supervisor: Raffaella Bernardi, Ph.D, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Co-Supervisor: Markéta Lopatková, Ph.D., Charles University in Prague
Submitted in: 2009
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Sergio Raul Duarte Torres
Title: Improving performance of information retrieval systems through semantic query expansion
Supervisor: Dr. Gosse Bouma, University of Groningen
Co-Supervisor: Pavel Pecina, Ph.D., Charles University in Prague
Submitted in: 2009
Link: Thesis


Name: Ali Reza Ebadat
Title: Decoder based on Genetic Algorithm for a Statistical Machine Translation system
Supervisor: Profesor Kamel Smaïli, University of Nancy 2
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Andreas Eisele, Saarland University
Submitted in: 2009
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Masood Ghayoomi
Title: Frame Assignment with Active Learning
Supervisor: Caroline Sporleder, Saarland University
Co-Supervisor: Professor Manfred Pinkal, Saarland University
Submitted in: 2009
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Mohamed Zahurul Islam
Title: English to Bangla Statistical Machine Translation
Supervisor: Dr. Andreas Eisele, Saarland University
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Jorg Tiedemann, University of Groningen
Submitted in: 2009
Link: Thesis


Name: Alejandra Elizabeth Lorenzo
Title: Enhancing a hybrid tableaux algorithm
Supervisor: Diego Calvanese, Free University Bozen/Bolzano
Co-Supervisor: Patrick Blackburn, University of Nancy 2
Submitted in: 2009
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Laura Haide Perez
Title: Using regular tree grammars to optimise surface realisation
Supervisor: Raffaella Bernardi, FU Bozen/Bolzano
Co-Supervisor: Claire Gardent, University of Nancy 2
Submitted in: 2009
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Sai Qian
Title: Identification of accessibility constraints in discourse
Supervisor: Maxime Amblard, University of Nancy 2
Co-Supervisor: Professor Manfred Pinkal, Saarland University
Submitted in: 2009
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Zorana Ratkovic
Title: Deep analysis in IQA: evaluation on real users’ dialogues
Supervisor: Raffaella Bernardi, FU Bozen/Bolzano
Co-Supervisor: Vladislav Kubon, Charles University in Prague
Submitted in: 2009
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Prajol Shrestha
Title: Online and offline vocabulary correction using digital pen
Supervisor: Profesor Abdel Belaïd, University of Nancy 2
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Vaclav Hlavac, Charles University in Prague
Submitted in: 2009
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

Name: Marco Trevisan
Title: Improving portability of menu-guided nat- ural language interfaces to databases
Supervisor: Enrico Franconi, Free University Bozen/Bolzano
Co-Supervisor: Gertjan van Noord, Groningen University
Submitted in: 2009
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)

2008

Name: Mathew Wilson
Title: Fitting EMA data to an articulatory model: toward an evaluation of speech inversion
Supervisor: Slim Ouni, Yves Laprie
Co-Supervisor: William Barry, Ingmar Steiner
Submitted in: 2008
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English)