Manuela Hürlimann

Work at ZHAW

Position

Research Associate in Natural Language Processing

Network

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0009-0008-5185-6876

Projects

• NLP Community Building / Deputy project leader / ongoing
• Use of Large Language Models to improve Speech-to-text output / Deputy project leader / completed
• Towards a Voice-Based Chatbot for Language Learners / Project leader / completed
• Speech-to-Text for Swiss German / Project leader / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Schreiber, M., Jenny, G. J., Hürlimann, M., Parfenova, Y., von Däniken, P., & Cieliebak, M. (2025). A discourse on the use of machine learning (ML) in personality psychology : can we expect ML to predict questionnaire scores from idiographic text-based data? Journal of Research in Personality, 119(104666). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104666

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Proceedings of the 10th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference. (2025). In J. Gerber, M. Cieliebak, D. Tuggener, & M. Hürlimann (Eds.), 10th Swiss Text Analytics Conference – SwissText 2025, Winterthur, Switzerland, 13-15 May 2025. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2025.swisstext-1.0/
• Cieliebak, M., Gerber, J., & Hürlimann, M. (2025). SwissCoco2025 : the Swiss Corpora Collection 2025 [Conference paper]. In J. Gerber, M. Cieliebak, D. Tuggener, & M. Hürlimann (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference (pp. 133–148). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36110
• Michot, J., Hürlimann, M., Deriu, J. M., Sauer, L., Mlynchyk, K., & Cieliebak, M. (2024). Error-preserving automatic speech recognition of young English learners’ language [Conference paper]. In L.-W. Ku, A. Martins, & V. Srikumar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (pp. 6444–6454). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.acl-long.348
• Belz, A., Thomson, C., Reiter, E., Cieliebak, M., & Hürlimann, M. (2023). Missing information, unresponsive authors, experimental flaws : the impossibility of assessing the reproducibility of previous human evaluations in NLP [Conference paper]. The Fourth Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.insights-1.1
• Hürlimann, M., & Cieliebak, M. (2023). Reproducing a comparative evaluation of German text-to-speech systems [Conference paper]. In A. Belz, M. Popovic, E. Reiter, C. Thomson, & J. Sedoc (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems (pp. 136–144). INCOMA. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29262
• Plüss, M., Deriu, J. M., Schraner, Y., Paonessa, C., Hartmann, J., Schmidt, L., Scheller, C., Hürlimann, M., Samardžic, T., Vogel, M., & Cieliebak, M. (2023). STT4SG-350 : a speech corpus for all Swiss German dialect regions [Conference paper]. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), 1763–1772. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.acl-short.150
• Proceedings of the 8th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference. (2023). In H. Ghorbel, M. Sokhn, M. Cieliebak, M. Hürlimann, E. de Salis, & J. Guerne (Eds.), 8th Swiss Text Analytics Conference – SwissText 2023, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 12-14 June 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2023.swisstext-1.0/
• Plüss, M., Hürlimann, M., Cuny, M., Stöckli, A., Kapotis, N., Hartmann, J., Ulasik, M. A., Scheller, C., Schraner, Y., Jain, A., Deriu, J. M., Cieliebak, M., & Vogel, M. (2022). SDS-200 : a Swiss German speech to Standard German text corpus [Conference paper]. Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), 3250–3256. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-26131
• Ulasik, M. A., Hürlimann, M., Dubel, B., Kaufmann, Y., Rudolf, S., Deriu, J. M., Mlynchyk, K., Hutter, H.-P., & Cieliebak, M. (2021). ZHAW-CAI : ensemble method for Swiss German speech to Standard German text [Conference paper]. In F. Benites de Azevedo e Souza, D. Tuggener, M. Hürlimann, M. Cieliebak, & M. Vogel (Eds.), Proceedings of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference 2021. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-23889
• Proceedings of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference 2021. (2021). In F. Benites, D. Tuggener, M. Hürlimann, M. Cieliebak, & M. Vogel (Eds.), 6th Swiss Text Analytics Conference – SwissText 2021, Online, 14-16 June 2021. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2957/
• Ulasik, M. A., Hürlimann, M., Germann, F., Gedik, E., Benites de Azevedo e Souza, F., & Cieliebak, M. (2020). CEASR : a corpus for evaluating automatic speech recognition [Conference paper]. In N. Calzolari, F. Béchet, P. Blache, K. Choukri, C. Cieri, T. Declerck, S. Goggi, H. Isahara, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, H. Mazo, A. Moreno, J. Odijk, & S. Piperidis (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020) (pp. 6477–6485). European Language Resources Association. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-20125
• Benites de Azevedo e Souza, F., Hürlimann, M., von Däniken, P., & Cieliebak, M. (2020). ZHAW-InIT : social media geolocation at VarDial 2020 [Conference paper]. In M. Zampieri, P. Nakov, N. Ljubešić, J. Tiedemann, & Y. Scherrer (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (pp. 254–264). International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL). https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-21551
• Büchi, M., Ulasik, M. A., Hürlimann, M., Benites de Azevedo e Souza, F., von Däniken, P., & Cieliebak, M. (2020). ZHAW-InIT at GermEval 2020 task 4 : low-resource speech-to-text [Conference paper]. In S. Ebling, D. Tuggener, M. Hürlimann, M. Cieliebak, & M. Volk (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) & 16th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-21550
• Proceedings of the 5th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) & 16th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS). (2020). In S. Ebling, D. Tuggener, M. Hürlimann, M. Cieliebak, & M. Volk (Eds.), 5th SwissText & 16th KONVENS Joint Conference, Zurich (online), 24-25 June 2020. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2624/

Other publications

• Proceedings of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference 2022. (2023). In M. Hürlimann, R. Mastropietro, D. Puccinelli, F. Rinaldi, & M. Cieliebak (Eds.), 7th Swiss Text Analytics Conference – SwissText 2022, Lugano, Switzerland, 8-10 June 2022. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3361/
• Paonessa, C., Schraner, Y., Deriu, J. M., Hürlimann, M., Vogel, M., & Cieliebak, M. (2023). Dialect transfer for Swiss German speech translation. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.09088
• Hürlimann, M., Galbier, J., & Cieliebak, M. (2022). Speech-to-text technology for hard-of-hearing people. ERCIM News, 130, 15–16. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27071
• von Däniken, P., Hürlimann, M., & Cieliebak, M. (2020). Overview of the GermEval 2020 shared task on Swiss German language identification [Conference paper]. In S. Ebling, D. Tuggener, M. Hürlimann, M. Cieliebak, & M. Volk (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) & 16th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-21549

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