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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Benites de Azevedo e Souza, Fernando; Duivesteijn, Gilbert François; von Däniken, Pius; Cieliebak, Mark,
2020.
TRANSLIT : a large-scale name transliteration resource [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. 3265-3271.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-20082
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Ulasik, Malgorzata Anna; Hürlimann, Manuela; Germann, Fabian; Gedik, Esin; Benites de Azevedo e Souza, Fernando; Cieliebak, Mark,
2020.
CEASR : a corpus for evaluating automatic speech recognition [paper].
In:
Calzolari, Nicoletta; Béchet, Frédéric; Blache, Philippe; Choukri, Khalid; Cieri, Christopher; Declerck, Thierry; Goggi, Sara; Isahara, Hitoshi; Maegaard, Bente; Mariani, Joseph; Mazo, Hélène; Moreno, Asuncion; Odijk, Jan; Piperidis, Stelios, eds.,
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. 6477-6485.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-20125
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Leuschen, Lara; Betzler, Diana; Fredersdorf, Frederic; Rebitzer, Fabian; Cieliebak, Mark; Benites de Azevedo e Souza, Fernando,
2020.
Digitale Kommunikationsstrategien für den Kultursektor der Bodenseeregion.
Kreuzlingen:
Internationale Bodensee Hochschule.
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Campos, Jon Ander; Otegi, Arantxa; Soroa, Aitor; Deriu, Jan Milan; Cieliebak, Mark; Agirre, Eneko,
2020.
DoQA : accessing domain-specific FAQs via conversational QA [paper].
In:
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020), online, 5-10 July 2020.
Association for Computational Linguistics.
pp. 7302-7314.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.652
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Cieliebak, Mark; Keck Frei, Andrea,
2020.
Flipped Classroom in der Hochschullehre einsetzen
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In:
Bachmann, Heinz, ed.,
Hochschullehre variantenreich gestalten : Kompetenzorientierte Hochschullehre – Ansätze, Methoden und Beispiele.
Bern:
hep.
Forum Hochschuldidaktik und Erwachsenenbildung ; 4.