Dissertation Supervision

We regularly supervise BSc and MSc dissertation projects. If you are looking for a topic – and are interested in our general line of research (see the rest of this website) – or think you might have something that could fit, please contact us.

(If you have access to the Potsdam moodle system, you can self-sign up for the page “CLP-PRJ” (password clp-topics), where you can find a list of available topics. There’s also an older, but more comprehensive list of open topics here on this site (username and password is student).)

You can find a list of recent completed student projects that we have supervised here.

Here are some guidelines for doing a project with us (also relevant if you want to propose an external project for which you’d like our co-supervision).

Teaching

2024, Summer Semester

Teachers: Sherzod Hakimov (SH), Meng Li (ML), Philipp Sadler (PS), David Schlangen (DS)

  • BSc CL, FSA, Formale Sprachen und Automaten in der CL (SH)
  • MSc CogSys, PM1/PM2, Evaluating Chat-Optimized Language Models (SH)
  • BSc CL, METH-A, Grammatical Error Correction (ML)
  • MSc CogSys, AM, Pretrained Models (ML)
  • BSc CL, PRO2, Programmieren II (PS)
  • MSc CogSys, PM, Programming with LLMs (DS)
  • MSc CogSys, AM, Understanding, Meaning, and Machines
2023, Winter Semester

Teachers: Sherzod Hakimov (SH), Meng Li (ML), Brielen Madureira Lasota (BML), David Schlangen (DS)

  • BSc Computational Linguistics, CLT, Computerlinguistische Techniken (DS, BML)
  • BSc CL, METH-A, Methods in Natural Language Processing (SH)
  • MSc Cognitive Systems, BM1, Advanced Natural Language Processing (DS, ML)
  • MSc Cognitive Systems, AM, Current Highlights in NLP (SH)
2023, Summer Semester

Teachers: Jana Götze (JG), Sherzod Hakimov (SH), Brielen Madureira Lasota (BML), David Schlangen (DS)

  • BSc CL, FSA, Formale Sprachen und Automaten in der CL (SH)
  • MSc CogSys, PM1/PM2, Models That Explain Themselves (SH)
  • BSc CL METH-A / MSc CogSys AM, Dialogue Modeling (JG, BML)
  • BSc CL, Programmiersprache (BML)
  • BSc CL, PRO2-A, Programmierung II (JG)
  • MSc CogSys, PM, Language, Vision, & Interaction (DS)
  • MSc CogSys, AM, Natural Language Understanding and the Meaning of ChatGPT
2022, Winter Semester

Teachers: Jana Götze (JG), Sherzod Hakimov (SH), Brielen Madureira Lasota (BML)

  • BSc Computational Linguistics, CLT, Computerlinguistische Techniken (JG)
  • BSc CL, METH-A, Evaluation of NLP Systems (BML)
  • MSc Cognitive Systems, BM1, Advanced Natural Language Processing (SH, BML)
  • MSc Cognitive Systems, AM, Current Highlights in NLP (SH)
2022, Summer Semester

Teachers: Anne Beyer (AB), Jana Götze (JG), Dimos Kontogiorgos (DK), Brielen Madureira Lasota (BML), Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann (MPP), Philipp Sadler (PS), David Schlangen (DS)

  • BSc CL, PRO2-A, Programmierung II (JG)
  • MSc CogSys, AM11/AM12, Deep Learning for NLP (PS, BM)
  • BSc CL, PRS, Programmiersprache (AB, BM)
  • BSc CL, FSA, Formale Sprachen und Automaten in der CL (MPP)
  • MSc CogSys, PM1/PM2, Multimodal Dialogue in Human-Robot-Interaction (MPP)
  • BSc CL, METH-A, Dialogue Modelling: Theories and Empirical Methods (DK)
  • MSc CogSys, PM, Language & Vision: GuessWhat?! (DS)
  • MSc CogSys, AM, Natural Language Understanding: What Does it Mean?
  • BSc CL, MSc CogSys, Potsdam Computational Linguistics Colloquium
2021, Winter Semester

Teachers: Jana Götze (JG), Brielen Madureira Lasota (BML), Maike Paetzel (MP), David Schlangen (DS)

  • MSc Cognitive Systems, BM1, Advanced Natural Language Processing (BML, JG, DS)
  • BSC Computational Linguistics, CLT, Computerlinguistische Techniken (JG, DS)
  • BSc CL, METH-A, Mathematical Foundations of Language Modelling (BML)
  • MSc CogSys, FM3, Fundamentals of Linguistics (DS)
  • BSc CL, PRO1-A, Programmierung I (MP)
  • BSc CL, ANW-A, Sprachbasierte Assistenzsysteme (MP)
2021, Summer Semester

Teachers: Anne Beyer (AB), Jana Götze (JG), Sharid Loáiciga (SL), Brielen Madureira Lasota (BML), Maike Paetzel (MP), Philipp Sadler (PS), David Schlangen (DS)

  • MSc Cognitive Systems, Doing Science and Conducting Research (BML)
  • BSc CL/Ling, Programmiersprache (AB, BML)
  • BSc CL, PRO2-A, Programmierung II (JG)
  • MSc CogSys, Deep Learning for NLP (SL)
  • BSc CL, Machine Translation (SL)
  • MSc CogSys, Cooperative Task-Solving withh an Embodied Artificial Agent (MP)
  • MSc CogSys, Language, Vision, & Interaction Project Seminar (PS, DS)
  • BSc CL, Modelling Dialogue: Theories, Data (DS)
  • BSc CL, FSA, Introduction to Formal Languages & Automata (MP)
  • MSc CogSys, Human/Robot Interaction: Psychological and Computational Perspectives (DS, with Martin Fischer, embodied cognition Potsdam)
2020, Winter Semester

Teachers: Jana Götze (JG), Sharid Loáiciga (SL), Brielen Madureira Lasota (BML), Maike Paetzel (MP), David Schlangen (DS)

  • MSc Cognitive Systems, BM1, Advanced Natural Language Processing (DS, w/ Berfin Aktas)
  • BSC Computational Linguistics, CLT, Computerlinguistische Techniken (DS, BML)
  • BSc CL, METH-A, Evaluation of NLP Systems (BML)
  • MSc Linguistics, LIN-MS-012, Basic Programming (BML)
  • MSc CogSys, PM1, Coreference Resolution (SL)
  • MSc CogSys, FM3, Foundations of Linguistics (SL)
  • BSc CL, ANW-A, Interaktionsdesign für soziale Roboter (MP)
  • BSc CL, PRO1-A, Programmierung I (JG)
2020, Summer Semester

Teachers: Anne Beyer (AB), Jana Götze (JG), Sharid Loáiciga (SL), Brielen Madureira Lasota (BML), Robin Rojowiec (RR), David Schlangen (DS)

  • MSc Cognitive Systems, PM, Computational Semantics with Pictures (DS)
  • MSc CogSys, AM1, Deep Learning for NLP (SL)
  • MSc CogSys, AM2, Reinforcement Learning for NLP (BML)
  • BSc Computational Linguistics, ANW-A, Dialogmodellierung: Praxis & Implementation [practical dialogue system design] (DS)
  • BSc CL, METH-A, Dialogmodellierung: Theorie & Empirie [empiricial and theoretical approaches to dialogue] (DS)
  • BSc CL, PRS, Intro to Python (BML, RR)
  • BSc CL, FSA, Introduction to Formal Languages & Automata (AB)
  • BSc CL, PRO2-A, Programming II (JG)
  • BSc CL, ANW-A, Machine Translation (SL)
  • Potsdam Computational Linguistics Colloquium (DS)
2019, Winter Semester

(David Schlangen only)

2019, Summer Semester

(David Schlangen only)

Pre 2019, at Bielefeld

In Bielefeld, I (DS) regularly taught various introductory classes in computational linguistics, both at BA and MA level, as well as a series on Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (reading seminal books like Anscombe’s Intention, Clark’s Using Language, Asher & Lascarides’ Logics of Conversation, Ginzburg’s Interactive Stance), classes on Spoken Dialogue Systems, and a class on “Data Journalism”.