Manuela Hürlimann

Work at ZHAW

Position

Research Associate in Natural Language Processing

Education and Continuing education

Expertise and research interests

Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML)

Educational background

MA Computational Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2015
MSc Language and Multimodal Interaction, University of Trento, 2014
BA Computerlinguistik / Anglistik, University of Zurich, 2012

Membership of networks

Vizepräsidentin Swiss Association for Natural Language Processing (SwissNLP)

Projects

• Towards a Voice-Based Chatbot for Language Learners (ChaLL) / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Speech-to-Text for Swiss German / Project leader / Project completed
• Crowdsourcing für Schweizerdeutsches Speech-to-Text / Project leader / Project completed
• Swiss Text Analytics Conference 2021 (SwissText) / Project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Belz, Anya; Thomson, Craig; Reiter, Ehud; Cieliebak, Mark; Hürlimann, Manuela; et al.,

  2023.

  Missing information, unresponsive authors, experimental flaws : the impossibility of assessing the reproducibility of previous human evaluations in NLP [paper].

  In:

  The Fourth Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP.

  The Fourth Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2-6 May 2023.

  Association for Computational Linguistics.

  pp. 1-10.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.insights-1.1

• Hürlimann, Manuela; Cieliebak, Mark,

  2023.

  Reproducing a comparative evaluation of German text-to-speech systems [paper].

  In:

  Belz, Anya; Popovic, Maja; Reiter, Ehud; Thomson, Craig; Sedoc, João, eds.,

  Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems.

  14th International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), Varna, Bulgaria, 4-8 September 2023.

  Shoumen:

  INCOMA.

  pp. 136-144.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29262

• Plüss, Michel; Deriu, Jan Milan; Schraner, Yanick; Paonessa, Claudio; Hartmann, Julia; Schmidt, Larissa; Scheller, Christian; Hürlimann, Manuela; Samardžic, Tanja; Vogel, Manfred; Cieliebak, Mark,

  2023.

  STT4SG-350 : a speech corpus for all Swiss German dialect regions [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers).

  61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Toronto, Canada, 9-14 July 2023.

  Association for Computational Linguistics.

  pp. 1763-1772.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.acl-short.150

• Plüss, Michel; Hürlimann, Manuela; Cuny, Marc; Stöckli, Alla; Kapotis, Nikolaos; Hartmann, Julia; Ulasik, Malgorzata Anna; Scheller, Christian; Schraner, Yanick; Jain, Amit; Deriu, Jan Milan; Cieliebak, Mark; Vogel, Manfred,

  2022.

  SDS-200 : a Swiss German speech to Standard German text corpus [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022).

  13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Marseille, France, 20-25 June 2022.

  European Language Resources Association.

  pp. 3250-3256.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-26131

• Benites, Fernando; Tuggener, Don; Hürlimann, Manuela; Cieliebak, Mark; Vogel, Manfred, eds.,

  2021.

  Proceedings of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference 2021.

  6th Swiss Text Analytics Conference – SwissText 2021, Online, 14-16 June 2021.

  CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

  .

  Available from: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2957/

• Ulasik, Malgorzata Anna; Hürlimann, Manuela; Dubel, Bogumila; Kaufmann, Yves; Rudolf, Silas; Deriu, Jan Milan; Mlynchyk, Katsiaryna; Hutter, Hans-Peter; Cieliebak, Mark,

  2021.

  ZHAW-CAI : ensemble method for Swiss German speech to Standard German text [paper].

  In:

  Benites de Azevedo e Souza, Fernando; Tuggener, Don; Hürlimann, Manuela; Cieliebak, Mark; Vogel, Manfred, eds.,

  Proceedings of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference 2021.

  Swiss Text Analytics Conference – SwissText 2021, Online, 14-16 June 2021.

  CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-23889

• Benites de Azevedo e Souza, Fernando; Hürlimann, Manuela; von Däniken, Pius; Cieliebak, Mark,

  2020.

  ZHAW-InIT : social media geolocation at VarDial 2020 [paper].

  In:

  Zampieri, Marcos; Nakov, Preslav; Ljubešić, Nikola; Tiedemann, Jörg; Scherrer, Yves, eds.,

  Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects.

  Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, Barcelona (Spain), online, 13 December 2020.

  International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL).

  pp. 254-264.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-21551

• Ebling, Sarah; Tuggener, Don; Hürlimann, Manuela; Cieliebak, Mark; Volk, Martin, eds.,

  2020.

  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.

  .

  Available from: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2624/

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Hürlimann, Manuela; Mastropietro, Roberto; Puccinelli, Daniele; Rinaldi, Fabio; Cieliebak, Mark, eds.,

  2023.

  Proceedings of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference 2022.

  7th Swiss Text Analytics Conference – SwissText 2022, Lugano, Switzerland, 8-10 June 2022.

  CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

  .

  Available from: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3361/

• Hürlimann, Manuela; Galbier, Jolanda; Cieliebak, Mark,

  2022.

  Speech-to-text technology for hard-of-hearing people.

  ERCIM News.

  (130), pp. 15-16.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27071

• 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

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

Hürlimann, Manuela, Brian Davis, Keith Cortis, André Freitas, Siegfried Handschuh, and Sergio Fernández. "A Twitter Sentiment Gold Standard for the Brexit Referendum." In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Semantic Systems, pp. 193-196. ACM, 2016.

Hürlimann, Manuela, Benno Weck, Esther van den Berg, Simon Šuster, and Malvina Nissim. "GLAD: Groningen Lightweight Authorship Detection - Notebook for PAN at CLEF 2015". In CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 1-12, 2015.

Hürlimann, Manuela and Bos, Johan. "Combining Lexical and Spatial Knowledge to Predict Spatial Relations between Objects in Images". In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Vision and Language, pp 10–18, Berlin, Germany, 2016.

Hürlimann, Manuela, Raffaella Bernardi, and Denis Paperno. "Nominal coercion in space: mass/count nouns and distributional semantics." In Proceedings of the First Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2014 & and of the Fourth International Workshop EVALITA 2014. Pisa University Press, 2014.

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