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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Publications
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Agirre, Eneko; Otegi, Arantxa; Pradel, Camille; Rosset, Sophie; Peñas, Anselmo; Cieliebak, Mark,
2019.
LIHLITH : learning to interact with humans by lifelong interaction with humans[paper].
In:
SEPLN2019, Bilbao, Spain, September 25-27, 2019.
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Sileo, Damien; Pradel, Camille; Peñas, Anselmo; Echegoyen, Guillermo; Otegi, Arantxa; Deriu, Jan Milan; Cieliebak, Mark; Barrena, Ander; Agirre, Eneko,
2019.
Matching words and knowledge graph entities with meta-embeddings[paper].
In:
Proceedings of CAp2019.
Conference on Machine Learning (CAp), Toulouse, July 3 to 5, 2019.
PFIA.
pp. 34-39.
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Cieliebak, Mark; Benites de Azevedo e Souza, Fernando; Leuschen, Lara; Hnizda, Michaela; Betzler, Diana,
2019.
Methods of NLP in arts management[poster].
In:
8th International Conference on Writing Analytics, Winterthur, 5-6 September 2019.
Winterthur:
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-18443
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Cieliebak, Mark; Benites de Azevedo e Souza, Fernando; Leuschen, Lara; Hnizda, Michaela; Betzler, Diana,
2019.
Natural language processing in arts management.
Zeitschrift für Kulturmanagement.
5(1), pp. 119-142.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.14361/zkmm-2019-0107
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Deriu, Jan Milan; Cieliebak, Mark,
2019.
Towards a metric for automated conversational dialogue system evaluation and improvement[paper].
In:
2th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2019), Tokyo, Japan, October 29 - November 1, 2019.
Available from: https://www.inlg2019.com/assets/papers/132_Supplementary_Attachment.pdf