Natural Language Processing Group
“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.”
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
Projects
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Publications
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Ebling, Sarah; Tuggener, Don; Hürlimann, Manuela; Cieliebak, Mark; Volk, Martin, eds.,
2020.
5th SwissText & 16th KONVENS Joint Conference, Zurich (online), 24-25 June 2020.
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Available from: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2624/
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von Däniken, Pius; Hürlimann, Manuela; Cieliebak, Mark,
2020.
Overview of the GermEval 2020 shared task on Swiss German language identification [paper].
In:
Ebling, Sarah; Tuggener, Don; Hürlimann, Manuela; Cieliebak, Mark; Volk, Martin, eds.,
Proceedings of the 5th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) & 16th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS).
5th SwissText & 16th KONVENS Joint Conference, Zurich (online), 24-25 June 2020.
CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-21549
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Büchi, Matthias; Ulasik, Malgorzata Anna; Hürlimann, Manuela; Benites de Azevedo e Souza, Fernando; von Däniken, Pius; Cieliebak, Mark,
2020.
ZHAW-InIT at GermEval 2020 task 4 : low-resource speech-to-text [paper].
In:
Ebling, Sarah; Tuggener, Don; Hürlimann, Manuela; Cieliebak, Mark; Volk, Martin, eds.,
Proceedings of the 5th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) & 16th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS).
5th SwissText & 16th KONVENS Joint Conference, Zurich (online), 24-25 June 2020.
CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-21550
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Tuggener, Don; von Däniken, Pius; Peetz, Thomas; Cieliebak, Mark,
2020.
LEDGAR : a large-scale multi-label corpus for text classification of legal provisions in contracts [paper].
In:
Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020).
12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Marseille, France, 11-16 May 2020.
European Language Resources Association.
pp. 1235-1241.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-20087
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Hürlimann, Manuela; Cieliebak, Mark; Vogel, Manfred,
2020.
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-21636