Completed Theses

• • Doruntine Zogaj, Segmenting continuous experience: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence for event boundary effects on memory processes in narratives, 2026 (Project A6)

• • Jesujoba Alabi, Advancing African NLP: Adaptation, Analysis, and Evaluation of Large Language Models, 2026 (Project B4)

• • Sarah Jablotschkin, Syntax und Kohärenz in Leichter Sprache, 2026 (Project T1)

• • Heike Przybyl, Simplification in simultaneous interpreting – a lexical and syntactic perspective, 2026 (Project B7)

• • Margarita Ryzhova, Factors that affect derivation of atypicality inferences, 2026 (Project A8)

• • Miaoran Zhang, Advancing Semantic Understanding in Multilingual and Multimodal Contexts, 2026 (Project B4)

• • Julius Steuer, Developmental, Typological, and Diachronic Applications of Cognitively Plausible Language Models, 2026 (Project B4)

• • Muqing Li, Informativity and Linearization in Reference Production, 2025. (Project C3)

• • Marian Marchal, Searching for signals: readers‘ sensitivity to signals for discourse relations, 2025. (Project B2)

• • Lisa Schäfer, Topic drop in German: Empirical support for an information-theoretic account to a long-known omission phenomenon, 2024. (Project B3)

• • Koel Dutta Chowdhury, A Representation Learning Based Approach to the Study of Translationese, 2024. (Project B6)

• • Clayton Greenberg, Evaluating humanness in language models, 2024. (Project B4)

• • Badr M. Abdullah, The representation of speech variability and variation in deep neural networks, 2024. (Project C4)

• • Beeke Muhlack, Filler particles: phonetic details, cross-linguistic comparisons, and the recall effect, 2024. (Project C1)

• • Linda Sommerfeld, Predictive language processing in the complex visual world in children and adults, 2024. (Project A5)

• • Koel Dutta Chowdhury, A representation learning based approach to the study of translationese, 2024. (Project B6)

• • Anupama Chingacham, Ecploring Paraphrasing for Enhancing Speech Perception in Noisy Environments, 2024. (Project A4)

• • Julia Anuschka Meßmer, A functional perspective on schema-based learning and recognition of novel word associations, 2024. (Project A6)

• • Marius Mosbach, Analyzing pre-trained and fine-tuned language models, 2024. (Project B4)

• • Christoph Aurnhammer, Expectation-based retrieval and integration in language comprehension, 2024. (Project A1)

• • Fangzhou Zhai, Towards wider coverage script knowledge for NLP, 2023. (Project A3)

• • Mikey Elmers, Evaluating pause particles and their functions in natural and synthesized speech in laboratory and lecture settings, 2023. (Project C1)

• • Raphael Werner, The phonetics of speech breathing : pauses, physiology, acoustics, and perception, 2023. (Project C1)

• • Sophia Voigtmann, Wie Informationsdichte Extraposition beeinflusst. Eine Korpusuntersuchung an wissenschaftlichen Texten des Frühneuhochdeutschen, 2023. (Project C6)

• • Marie-Pauline Krielke, Optimizing Scientific Communication: The Role of Relative Clauses as Markers of Complexity in English and German Scientific Writing between 1650 and 1900, 2023. (Project B1)

• • Marjolein van Os, Rational Speech Comprehension: Effects of Predictability and Background Noise, 2023. (Project A4)

• • Katrin Ortmann, Computational Methods for Investigating Syntactic Change: Automatic Identification of Extraposition in Modern and Historical German, 2023. (Project C6)

• • Pratik Bhandari, Interaction of top-down and bottom-up processes in spoken language comprehension, 2022. (Project A4)

• • Michael Hedderich, Weak Supervision and Label Noise Handling for Natural Language Processing in Low-Resource Scenarios, 2022. (Project B4)

• • Omnia Ibrahim, Speaker adaptations as a function of message, channel and listener variability, 2022. (Project C1)

• • Jacek Kudera, Slavic Receptive Multilingualism: Intercomprehension of Speech, 2022. (Project C4)

• • Iona Gessinger, Phonetic Accommodation of Human Interlocutors in the Context of Human-Computer Interaction, 2021. (Project C1)

• • David M. Howcroft, Learning to Generate: Baysian nonparametric approaches to inducing rules for natural language generation, 2021. (Project A4)

• • Katja Kravtchenko, Integrating pragmatic reasoning in an Efficiency-based theory of utterance choice, 2021. (Project A3)

• • Eran Raveh, Vocal Accommodation in Human-Computer Interaction: Modeling and Integration into Spoken Dialogue Systems, 2021. (Project C1)

• • Iliana Simova, Towards the Extraction of Cross-sentence Relations through Event Extraction and Entity Coreference, 2021. (Project B5)

• • Johannes Tröger, Executive Function and Semantic Memory Impairments in Alzheimer’s Disease—Investigating the Decline of Executive Function and Semantic Memory in Alzheimer’s Disease through Computer-Supported Qualitative Analysis of Semantic Verbal Fluency and its Applications in Clinical Decision Support, 2021. (Project A4)

• • Yoana Vergilova, The Lateralization of Expectations: Hemispheric Differences in Top-down and Bottom-up Word Processing in Context, 2021. (Project C3/A5)

• • Gerrit Höltje, Interactions between immediate and delayed feedback processing and memory encoding : an investigation using event-related potentials, 2020. (Project A6)

• • Torsten Jachmann, The Immediate Influence of Speaker Gaze on Situated Speech Comprehension: Evidence from Multiple ERP Components, 2020. (Project C3)

• • Tyll Robin Lemke, Experimental investigations on the syntax and usage of fragments, 2020. (Project B3)

• • Wei Shi, Addressing the Data Bottleneck in Implicit Discourse Relation Classification, 2020. (Project B2)

• • Elli Nantia Tourtouri, Rational redundancy in situated communication, 2020. (Project C3)

• • Christine Susanne Ankener, The influence of visual information on word predictability and processing effort, 2019. (Project A5)

• • Erika Brandt, Information density and phonetic structure: Explaining segmental variability, 2019. (Project C1)

• • Jesús Calvillo, Connectionist language production : distributed representations and the uniform information density hypothesis, 2019. (Project C3)

• • Klára Jágrová, Reading Polish with Czech Eyes: Distance and Surprisal in Quantitative, Qualitative, and Error Analyses of Intelligibility, 2019. (Project C4)

• • Simon Ostermann, Script knowledge for natural language understanding, 2019. (Project A3)

• • Merel Cléo Johanna Scholman, Coherence relations in discourse and cognition : comparing approaches, annotations, and interpretations, 2019. (Project B2)

• • Mirjana Sekicki, Exploiting referential gaze for uncertainty reduction in situated language processing: an information-theoretic approach, 2019. (Project A5)

• • Irina Stenger, Zur Rolle der Orthographie in der slavischen Interkomprehension mit besonderem Fokus auf die kyrillische Schrift, 2019. (Project C4)

• • Lilian Diana Awuor Wanzare, Script acquisition : a crowdsourcing and text mining approach, 2019. (Project A3)

• • Youssef Oualil, Sequential estimation techniques and application to multiple speaker tracking and language modeling, 2018. (Project B4)

• • Ashutosh Modi, Modeling common sense knowledge via scripts, 2017. (Project A3)

• • Mittul Singh, Modeling common sense knowledge via scripts, 2017. (Project A3)

• • Fatemeh Torabi Asr, An Information Theoretic Approach to Production and Comprehension of Discourse Markers, 2015. (Project B2)