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) |
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 MareÄek |
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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Name: Josine Rawee |
Title: The Color Subspace in Distributional Semantics |
Supervisor: Aurelie Herbelot |
Co-Supervisor: Johan Bos |
Submitted in: 2019 |
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Name: Thuong-Hai Pham |
Title: Exploiting Sentense Structure in Neural Machine Translation |
Supervisor: OndÅej Bojar |
Co-Supervisor: |
Submitted in: 2018 |
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English) |
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Name: Vinit Ravishankar |
Title: Parsing of Texts with Code-Switching |
Supervisor: Daniel Zeman |
Co-Supervisor: |
Submitted in: 2018 |
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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Name: Hoa Vu Trong |
Title: Grounding Natural Language Inference on Images |
Supervisor: |
Co-Supervisor: Pavel Pecina |
Submitted in: 2018 |
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 Dierences 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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Name: Talvany Carlotto |
Title: Repeating Syntax on Reddit |
Supervisor: Gregory Mills |
Co-Supervisor: Aitor Soroa |
Submitted in: 2016 |
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Name: Alicia Krebs |
Title: Capturing Discriminate Attributes in a Distributional Space |
Supervisor: Denis Paperno |
Co-Supervisor: Malvina Nissim |
Submitted in: 2016 |
Link: Thesis |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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Name: Ngoc-Quan Pham |
Title: CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK LANGUAGE MODELS |
Supervisor: Marco Baroni |
Co-Supervisor: Gemma Boleda |
Submitted in: 2016 |
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Name: Feraena Bibyna |
Title: Query expansion for medical information retrieval |
Supervisor: dr. Pecina |
Co-Supervisor: Günter Neumann |
Submitted in: 2015 |
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English) |
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Name: Ngoc Do |
Title: Neural Networks for Automatic Speaker, Language and Sex Identication |
Supervisor: Filip Jurccek, Ph.D. |
Co-Supervisor: |
Submitted in: 2015 |
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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Name: Adam Liška |
Title: Semantic spaces from images |
Supervisor: Marco Baroni |
Co-Supervisor: |
Submitted in: 2013 |
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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Name: Gebrekirstos Gebreselassie |
Title: sentiment analysis of news comments |
Supervisor: Gosse Bouma |
Co-Supervisor: Mike Rosner |
Submitted in: 2011 |
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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Name: Maria Nadejde |
Title: SyntacticWord Reordering For Statistical Machine Translation |
Supervisor: Prof. Klakow; Prof. Uszkoreit |
Co-Supervisor: |
Submitted in: 2011 |
Link: Thesis, Abstract (English) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Name: Olga Kudeykina |
Title: Acquisition of impersonal constructions in L2 Russian. |
Supervisor: Angeliek van Hout |
Co-Supervisor: |
Submitted in: 2010 |
Link: Thesis |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |