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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PANOPTES
The new product of ARGUS DATA INSIGHTS Schweiz AG "Real Time Print Media Monitoring" is an automated pipeline. It identifies relevant articles in print media, extracts them and sends them to the customers in real-time. Core of this project is the automated segmentation of full newspaper pages into articles, this is ...
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AUGEST - Automatic Generation of Regression Tests
We are investigating how to use new logging tools for Java programs to automatically generate regression test data and regression tests for productive systems. This is intended to minimize the risk and effort involved in refactoring software. The key points of the project are: 1. Performance influence: The use of ...
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Evaluation "Flipped Classroom"
In the spring semester 2014, the module "Algorithms and Data Structures" with 3 groups of 25 students each will be conducted at the ZHAW, School of Engineering. Two groups are taught in the traditional lecture format, one group is taught according to the "flipped classroom" method.The research project will ask ...
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SODES: Swiss Open Data Exploration System
In recent years, national and international institutions, governments and NGOs have made large amounts of data publicly available: there exist literally thousands of open data sources, with temperature measurements, stock market prices, population and income statistics etc. However, most open data sets are provided ...
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Talkalyzer
The aim of this project is to develop a demonstrator in the form of an Android app, which can visualize the speeches of two interlocutors in real time. This should enable a superior to recognize, for example, whether he or she talks too much in an employee appraisal interview or whether the interview is balanced.In ...
Publications
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Zhang, Yi; Deriu, Jan Milan; Katsogiannis-Meimarakis, George; Kosten, Catherine; Koutrika, Georgia; Stockinger, Kurt,
2024.
ScienceBenchmark : a complex real-world benchmark for evaluating natural language to SQL systems [paper].
In:
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment.
50th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Guangzhou, China, 25-29 August 2024.
Association for Computing Machinery.
pp. 685-698.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.14778/3636218.3636225
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Tuggener, Don; Niehaus, Susanna,
2024.
ERCIM News.
(136), pp. 22-23.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29792
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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
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Cieliebak, Mark; Drewek, Anna; Jakob Grob, Karin; Kruse, Otto; Mlynchyk, Katsiaryna; Rapp, Christian; Waller, Gregor,
2023.
Winterthur:
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2491
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Bühler, Judith; Hartmann, Andrea; Tuggener, Don; Cieliebak, Mark; Baier, Dirk,
2023.
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-28901