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Master Theses
Human Language Technology
- Sidi Wang, 2024. LLMs as annotators for machine translation quality estimation (pdf)
- Yee Man Ng, 2024. A Comparative Study of Open-Source and Closed-Source Large Language Models for Native Language Identification (pdf)
- Agnieszka Kluska, 2023. Adapting Microportrait Extraction for Queer Stereotype Identification in Polish Online News (pdf)
- Bas Diender, 2023. Random Seed Influence on Language Model Generalizabilit (pdf)
- Dorien Renting, 2023. Multi-task fine-tuning for hate speech detection (pdf)
- Marije Brandsma, 2023. Decoding Populism: Analyzing Lexical Choice and Linguistic Simplicity in Tweets (pdf)
- Mekselina Doğanç, 2023. Automatic Generation of Personalized Counter Narratives Based on User Profile (pdf)
- Mojca Kloos, 2023. Mitigating Gender Bias with Deep Reinforcement Learning (pdf)
- Rorick Terlou, 2023. Increasing Readability with Disfluency Removal in Automatic Dutch Transcriptions (pdf)
- Vasiliki Kyrmanidi, 2023. Exploring the Impact of Structured Dialogue Representation on Neural Dialogue Response Generation (pdf)
- Adrielli Lopez Rego, 2022. Matching Ontologies in the Education Domain with Semantic Similarity
- Alessandra Polimeno, 2022. Diversifying News Recommendation Systems by Detecting Fragmentation in News Story Chains (pdf)
- Charlotte Pouw, 2022. Cross-lingual Transfer of Correlations between Linguistic Complexity and Human Reading Behaviour (pdf)
- Eliza Hobo, 2022. Simply accessible: Contextualized Lexical Simplification for Accessibility of Dutch Texts
- Marcel Feteke, 2022. Cross-lingual Transfer Using Stacked Language Adapters
- Sanne Hoeken, 2022. Using Language Models for Analyzing Semantic Variation between Dutch Social Communities (pdf)
- Yilmaz Polat, 2022. The Hallucinatory World of Automatic Text Generation
- Nathan van der Molen-Pater, 2021. Information Usage in Coreference Resolution
- Sophie Neutel, 2021. Towards automatic ontology alignment using BERT
- Søren K. Fomsgaard, 2021. In the eye of the storm with style – Investigating style features in the language of QAnon on Twitter
- Vivian Claes, 2021. ECBERT: Applying BERT to European Central Bank Communication to Predict Market Response
- András Aponyi, 2020. Estimating Translation Quality Using Distributed Representations of Words and Sentences
- Jonathan Schaller, 2020. Cross-domain evaluation of a question-answering classifier
- Klaudia Bartosiak, 2020. Towards Formalizing Eligibility Criteria of Clinical Trials: Biomedical Entity Linking
- Lauren Green, 2020. Semi-supervised Classification of Occupations using Pseudo-Labelling and Information Extraction (pdf)
- Lisa Vasileva, 2020. Machine Translation Detection for Neural Machine Translation Scenario
- Ngan Nguyen, 2020. Clickbait anatomy: Identifying clickbait with machine learning
- Suzana Bašic, 2020. Color as a Discriminative Property for Establishing Object Identity in Human-Robot Communication
- Karen Goes, 2019. Exploring text mining techniques to structure a digitised catalogue
- Benedetta Torsi, 2018. Detecting claims in a cross-register corpus
- Liza King, 2018. Modals and Measles: Computational linguistic investigations into modal use in the vaccination debate
- Pia Sommerauer, 2017. From old to new racism? Investigating known dangers in distributional semantic approaches to conceptual change
- Chantal van Son, 2015. Towards a Dutch frame-semantic parser
- Femke Klaver, 2014. Authorship attribution of forum posts
Language and AI (formerly Text Mining)
- Furong Zou, 2024. Exploring An Existing ASR Model for a Binary Classification of Intelligibility on MOOC English Speech Data (pdf)
- Irma Tuinenga, 2024. Words Made Easy: a Comparative Study of Methods for English Lexical Simplification (pdf)
- Chuqiao Guo, 2024. Extracting Activity Information with LLMs Using GPT-Generated Data (pdf)
- Alyssa MacGregor-Hastie, 2024. Chats, Agents and Lyrics (pdf)
- Long Ma, 2024. Chinese Healthcare Named Entity Recognition (CHNER) Using BiLSTM-CRF Classifiers (pdf)
- Selin Açikel, 2024. Lost in Translation: Analyzing Machine Translation Quality Estimation with Synthetic Challenges (pdf)
- Yijing Zhang, 2024. Usage of Generative Models to Ask Follow-up Questions for Health Monitoring (pdf)
- Csenge Szabó, 2024. Multi-Label Topic Classification of Client Feedback in the Governance Domain (pdf)
- Payam Fakhraei, 2024. Context-Aware Hate Speech Detection using BERT: An Investigation with the Contextual Abuse Dataset (pdf)
- Murat Ertas, 2024. Improving Medical Text Classifiers with Balanced Datasets (pdf)
- Adam Tucker, 2023. Master Thesis An investigation of complex word identification (CWI) systems for English (pdf)
- Cecilia Schramm, 2023. Using Semi-supervised Learning to Automatically Annotate Dutch Medical Notes for Patients’ Functioning Levels (pdf)
- Hasan Shahoud, 2023. Discovering Hidden Cues using TF-IDF and their Relevance on Cultural Inter-dependency (pdf)
- Ajda Efendi, 2023. Document Classification on EQF levels with Multilingual datasets in English (pdf)
- Saloni Singh, 2023. Leveraging university curricula and course descriptions to augment a knowledge graph with degree-skill relationships (pdf)
- Natalia Khaidanova, 2023. Machine-Translation Evaluation: Comparing Traditional and Neural Machine-Translation Evaluation Metrics for English→Russian (pdf)
- Noah-Manuel Michael, 2023. Automated Verb Order Error Detection for Learners of Dutch as a Second Language (pdf)
- Quincy Liem, 2023. On the limits of entity linking on domain-specific data (pdf)
- Siti Nurhalimah, 2023. Enhancing Wordnet Bahasa through Multilingual Sense Intersection (pdf)
- Sofia Lee, 2023. Incident in Zagreb: self-supervised task adaptation performed: Impact of Task Adapting on Transformer Models for Targeted Sentiment Analysis in Croatian Headlines (pdf)
- Swarupa Hardikar, 2023. Exploring Open-source Generative Models for Lexical Simplification through Prompt Learning (pdf)
- Anouk Twilt, 2022. Sustainability in action: exploring automatically extracting actions from news-articles
- Elena Weber, 2022. Automatic Topic Classification of Customer Feedback in the Banking Domain (pdf)
- Ellemijn Galjaard, 2022. Evaluating Transfer of a Functional Level Classifier from Secondary to Primary Healthcare Notes
- Felix den Heijer, 2022. NER Classification for old and modern Dutch biographies: A comparative study of finetuned BERT models and out-of-the-box tools (pdf)
- Giorgio Malinverni, 2022. Analysing the Influence of Morphological Characteristics on the Performance of Few-Shot Prompting for Natural Language Inference in Cross-Lingual Settings
- Jingyue Zhang, 2022. Mapping text to learning objectives: A keyword-based text classification method
- Konstantina Andronikou, 2022. Automatic Retrieval of Topics Using Topic Modeling Techniques from Customer Conversations in the Airline Domain
- Lahorka Nikolovski, 2022. Synthetic Data for Domain Adaptation in Neural Machine Translation (pdf)
- Lois Rink, 2022. Automatic Classification of Speech Acts in tax service letters
- Michiel van Nederpelt, 2022. Evaluating a transformer-based language model under increasingly challenging conditions for the task of offensive language detection
- Mira Reisiger, 2022. Context-based entity linking of biomedical text
- Myrthe Buckens, 2022. Comparing and Evaluating Language Models for Conversational Data from the Medical Domain.
- Sharona Badloe, 2022. MedRoBERTa.nl: Transfer Learning From COVID-19 to Cancer Patients
- Shuyi Shen, 2022. Data to text generation with a joint entity and relation based method for a job advertisement
- Sylvia Pronk, 2022. A detailed comparison between two coreference systems and their effect on key-sentence extraction
- Tessel Wisman, 2022. Domain adaptation of end-to-end ASR via n-gram language modelling (pdf)
- Yan Chung Li, 2022. A Challenge Set for Natural Language Inference on but-inferred propositions
- Aju Shreshta, 2021. BERTje-based Automatic Anonymisation of Dutch Police Reports (pdf)
- Breta Micha, 2021. Automatic Terminology Extraction in domain specific texts: a comparison between a rule-based system and a BERT-based system.
- Dyon van der Ende, 2021. Text Mining for Sustainability: Detecting Corporate Greenwashing with the Sustainable Development Goals
- Eva den Uijl, 2021. Detecting Discriminatory Language in Job Advertising Texts
- Gabriele Catanese, 2021. A Transfer Learning approach to Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis for airline customer feedbacks
- Guido Ansem, 2021. The Effect of Auxiliary Data on Low Resource Languages in Aspect Extraction
- Jasmine van Vugt, 2021. Two Dutch fine-tuned BERT models: Named Entity Recognition and Named Entity Linking to increase findability of local geographical information. (pdf)
- Melisha Lemain-van der Nest, 2021. Named Entity Recognition: identifying NER Indicators in Dutch Police Reports
- Michelle Chan, 2021. An Empirical Framework for Topic Modelling for Dutch Texts based on Newspaper Articles on Soil Pollution
- Sanne Hamersma, 2021. Explorative analysis of precursors of physical aggression in a health care institute: a Text Mining approach
- Stan Frinking, 2021. Using Text Mining Techniques to Detect Fall Events in Medical Patient Notes
- Eva Zegelaar, 2020. An Automatic Emotion & Purpose Classifier for Dutch Tweets Written by Members of the Dutch Parliament
- Jan van Casteren, 2020. Automatic Attribution Extraction From Dutch News Articles: A Beginning
- Luca Meima, 2020. Finding potentially HIV defining conditions in medical reports
- Peter Caine, 2020. Mind the gap: A comparison of linguistic vs deep-learning approaches to aspect extraction and aspect category detection