Manuela Hürlimann

Position at the ZHAW

Research Associate in automated Text Analytics

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)

• Speech-to-Text for Swiss German / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Swiss Text Analytics Conference 2021 (SwissText) / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Crowdsourcing für Schweizerdeutsches Speech-to-Text / Project leader / Project completed

• 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) 2020.

  European Language Resources Association.

  pp. 6477-6485.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-20125

• 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

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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