Pius von Däniken

ZHAW School of Engineering
Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Technikumstrasse 71
8400 Winterthur

pius.vondaeniken@zhaw.ch

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

www.zhaw.ch/de/engineering/institute-zentren/init/

Projects

PRISM: Predicting Radicalization Events in Social Media User Timelines / Team member / Project completed
Verbreitung von Fake News und Hate Speech auf Social Media in der Schweiz / Project leader / Project completed
DOSSMA – Detection of Suspicious Social Media Activities / Team member / Project completed
SCAI: Smart Contract Analytics using Artificial Intelligence / Team member / Project completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Tuggener, Lukas; Amirian, Mohammadreza; Benites de Azevedo e Souza, Fernando; von Däniken, Pius; Gupta, Prakhar; Schilling, Frank-Peter; Stadelmann, Thilo,

2020.

Design patterns for resource-constrained automated deep-learning methods.

AI.

1(4), pp. 510-538.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/ai1040031

Conference contributions, peer-reviewed

von Däniken, Pius; Deriu, Jan Milan; Agirre, Eneko; Brunner, Ursin; Cieliebak, Mark; Stockinger, Kurt,

2022.

Improving NL-to-Query systems through re-ranking of semantic hypothesis [paper].

In:

5th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP), online, 16-17 December 2022.

Winterthur:

ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-26147
Deriu, Jan Milan; Tuggener, Don; von Däniken, Pius; Cieliebak, Mark,

2022.

Probing the robustness of trained metrics for conversational dialogue systems [paper].

In:

Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022), Dublin, Ireland, 22-27 May 2022.

Association for Computational Linguistics.

pp. 750-761.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.acl-short.85
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
Deriu, Jan Milan; Tuggener, Don; von Däniken, Pius; Campos, Jon Ander; Rodrigo, Alvaro; Belkacem, Thiziri; Soroa, Aitor; Agirre, Eneko; Cieliebak, Mark,

2020.

Spot The Bot : a robust and efficient framework for the evaluation of conversational dialogue systems [paper].

In:

Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Online, 16-20 November 2020.

Association for Computational Linguistics.

pp. 3971-3984.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.326
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
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
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
Benites de Azevedo e Souza, Fernando; von Däniken, Pius; Cieliebak, Mark,

2019.

TwistBytes - identification of Cuneiform languages and German dialects at VarDial 2019 [paper].

In:

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

6th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, VarDial 2019, Minneapolis, United States, 7 June 2019.

Ann Arbor:

Association for Computational Linguistics.

pp. 194-201.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-1421
Benites de Azevedo e Souza, Fernando; Duivesteijn, Gilbert; von Däniken, Pius; Cieliebak, Mark,

2018.

Merging haystacks to find matching needles : a transliteration approach [poster].

In:

SwissText 2018: 3rd Swiss Text Analytics Conference, Winterthur, 12.-13. Juni 2018.
Grubenmann, Ralf; Tuggener, Don; von Däniken, Pius; Deriu, Jan Milan; Cieliebak, Mark,

2018.

SB-CH : a Swiss German corpus with sentiment annotations [poster].

In:

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018.

11th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018), Miyazaki, 7-12 May 2018.

European Language Resources Association.
von Grünigen, Dirk; Grubenmann, Ralf; Benites de Azevedo e Souza, Fernando; von Däniken, Pius; Cieliebak, Mark,

2018.

spMMMP at GermEval 2018 shared task : classification of offensive content in tweets using convolutional neural networks and gated recurrent units [paper].

In:

Proceedings of the GermEval 2018 Workshop : 14th Conference on Natural Language Processing - KONVENS 2018.

14th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2018), Vienna, Austria, 19-21 September 2018.

ÖAW Austrian Academy of Sciences.

pp. 130-137.

Available from: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/academiaecorpora/PDF/GermEval2018_Proceedings.pdf
Benites de Azevedo e Souza, Fernando; Grubenmann, Ralf; von Däniken, Pius; von Grünigen, Dirk; Deriu, Jan Milan; Cieliebak, Mark,

2018.

Twist Bytes : German dialect identification with data mining optimization [paper].

In:

Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2018).

27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), Santa Fe, August 20-26, 2018.

VarDial.

pp. 218-227.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4850
von Däniken, Pius; Grubenmann, Ralf; Cieliebak, Mark,

2018.

Word unigram weighing for author profiling at PAN 2018 : notebook for PAN at CLEF 2018 [poster].

In:

CLEF 2018 Evaluation Labs and Workshop – Working Notes Papers (PAN).

Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2018), Avignon, France, 10-14 September 2018.

Available from: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2125/paper_135.pdf
Graf, Hans Daniel; Koc, Yusuf; Panighetti, Sandro; Togni, Matteo; von Grünigen, Dirk; Weilenmann, Martin; Xhoxhaj, Erland; Zürrer, Daniel; Benites de Azevedo e Souza, Fernando; Deriu, Jan Milan; Neureiter, Nico; von Däniken, Pius; Cieliebak, Mark; Eich, Walter; Neuhaus, Stephan; Stockinger, Kurt,

2017.

Four different ways to build a chatbot about movies [poster].

In:

SwissText 2017: 2nd Swiss Text Analytics Conference, Winterthur, 9. Juni 2017.

Other publications

von Däniken, Pius; Deriu, Jan Milan; Tuggener, Don; Cieliebak, Mark,

2022.

On the effectiveness of automated metrics for text generation systems [paper].

In:

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022.

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 7-11 December 2022.

Association for Computational Linguistics.

pp. 1503-1522.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27042
von Däniken, Pius,

2021.

Improving a semantic parser through user interaction.

Winterthur:

ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22938
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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