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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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.
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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.
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von Grünigen, Dirk; Grubenmann, Ralf; Benites de Azevedo e Souza, Fernando; von Däniken, Pius; Cieliebak, Mark,
2018.
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
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Deriu, Jan Milan; Cieliebak, Mark,
2018.
Syntactic manipulation for generating more diverse and interesting texts[paper].
In:
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation.
11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2018), Tilburg, The Netherlands, 5-8 November 2018.
Association for Computational Linguistics.
pp. 22-34.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W18-6503
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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