Natural Language Processing Group | ZHAW School of Engineering

“We combine foundational research with industrial applications to build new and innovative products and services, while at the same time exploring the necessary ethical and social boundaries.”

Professor Dr Mark Clieliebak

Fields of expertise

Text analytics
Dialogue systems
Speech processing

The NLP research team develops technologies for the analysis, understanding and generation of speech and text. We combine methods from linguistics, natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence to enable natural language communication between humans and machines. In our research, we work on topics such as text classification (e.g. sentiment analysis), chatbots/dialogue systems, text summarization, speech-to-text, speaker diarization and natural language generation. The group particularly focuses on Swiss German speech and text processing.

Services

Insight: keynotes, trainings
AI consultancy: workshops, expert support, advice, technology assessment
Research and development: small to large-scale collaborative projects, third party-funded research, student projects, commercially applicable prototypes

Team

Head of Research Group

Prof. Dr. Mark Cieliebak

+41 (0) 58 934 72 39
mark.cieliebak@zhaw.ch

Projects

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Publications

Tuggener, Don; Schneider, Teresa; Huwiler, Ariana; Kreienbühl, Tobias; Hischier, Simon; von Däniken, Pius; Niehaus, Susanna,

2024.

Role-playing LLMs in professional communication training : the case of investigative interviews with children [paper].

In:

Luz de Araujo, Pedro Henrique; Baumann, Andreas; Gromann, Dagmar; Krenn, Brigitte; Roth, Benjamin; Wiegand, Michael, eds.,

Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024).

20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS), Vienna, Austria, 10-13 September 2024.

Association for Computational Linguistics.

pp. 249-263.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-31482
Zhang, Yi; Deriu, Jan Milan; Katsogiannis-Meimarakis, George; Kosten, Catherine; Koutrika, Georgia; Stockinger, Kurt,

2024.

ScienceBenchmark : a complex real-world benchmark for evaluating natural language to SQL systems.

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment.

17(4), pp. 685-698.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.14778/3636218.3636225
Tuggener, Don; Niehaus, Susanna,

2024.

Using LLMs in professional training : criminal investigators improve their skills in children’s interrogations.

ERCIM News.

(136), pp. 22-23.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29792
Paonessa, Claudio; Schraner, Yanick; Deriu, Jan Milan; Hürlimann, Manuela; Vogel, Manfred; Cieliebak, Mark,

2023.

Dialect transfer for Swiss German speech translation.

arXiv.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.09088
Cieliebak, Mark; Drewek, Anna; Jakob Grob, Karin; Kruse, Otto; Mlynchyk, Katsiaryna; Rapp, Christian; Waller, Gregor,

2023.

Generative KI beim Verfassen von Bachelorarbeiten : Ergebnisse einer Studierendenbefragung im Juli 2023.

Winterthur:

ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2491