IN PROGRESS:

• Gamified Identity Identification using LLMs: A Role-playing Approach to Evaluate LLMs
  Mohamad Mehdi Balouchi (Advisor: Vahid Sadiri Javadi)
• LLMs Robustness to Real-World Errors in Text
  Amirhossein Aliakbarzadeh (Advisor: Dr. Akbar Karimi)
• Controlling Values in  LLMs
  Vlad Vrabie (Advisor: Dr. Charlie Welch)
• Propaganda Detection in Arabic on Twitter and in News Articles using Data Augmentation and Agnostic Language Embedding
  Farizeh Aldabbas (Advisor: Shaina Ashraf)
• Improving Data Augmentation with Data Attribution
  Anurag Kotiyal (Advisor: Dr. Akbar Karimi)
• Can we solve ABSA with massive augmentation?
  Mohamad Akbari (Advisor: Dr. Akbar Karimi)
• Hyperbolic Soft Prompting for Multi-Hop Reasoning
  Simon Welz (Advisor: Dr. Akbar Karimi)
• Transfer Learning Methods for Claim Detection with Limited Data: Use case: Diabetes Claim on Social Media
  Amirhossein Barrari (Advisor: Ipek Baris)
• Investigating Large Language Models for Misinformation Detection and Enhancement through External Knowledge Retrieval
  Kavya Shankar (Advisor: Shaina Ashraf)

COMPLETED:

2024

• Improving the Natural Language Inference Task with Human-Like LLM Explanations
  Mahnaz Mirhaj (Advisor: Vahid Sadiri Javadi | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
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• Evaluating Foundation Models using Keyphrase Analysis without Ground Truth
  Behnam Fanitabasi (Advisor: Vahid Sadiri Javadi | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
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• Evaluating Linguistic Style Paraphrase Robustness of LLMs in Social and Commonsense QA
  Pulkit Arora (Advisor: Dr. Akbar Karimi | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
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• Exploring Annotators' Personalization for Modeling Judgments in Subjective Tasks
  Prithwish Sarkar (Advisor: Dr. Joan Plepi | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
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• Generation of Realistic Synthetic Electronic Health Records Using Large Language Model
  M A Al-Masud (Supervisor: Prof. Lucie Flek)
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2020 - 2023

• Business Implications of Large Language Models
  Josef Salg (Supervisor: Prof. Lucie Flek)
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• Cultivating a Deeper Understanding of Interpersonal Conflict Verdicts: Synergy of Emotion-enriched AI Language Models and Preceding Verdict Trends
  Tom Balow (Advisor: Allison Lahnala | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
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• Extending Receptive Text Generation to Longer Documents
  Fernando Maya (Advisor: Dr. Charlie Welch | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
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• Encoding Numbers in Moral Models Based on Large Language Models
  Marlon May (Advisor: Dr. Charlie Welch | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
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• Theatre Script Generation with Personality Type Character Models
  Linus Erren (Advisor: Dr. Charlie Welch | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
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• Modeling and Improving the Scaling of Personalized Methods for Annotator Modeling
  Bela Neuendorf (Advisor: Dr. Charlie Welch | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
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• Design of a Chatbot for Public Engagement with Emerging Technology
  Ezzeddine Ben Hadj Yahya (Advisor: Dr. Charlie Welch | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
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• A Comparison of Data Augmentation Methods for Text Classification
  Peyman Hasani Jalilian (Advisor: Dr. Akbar Karimi | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
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• The Utilization of Pre‑trained Language Models for the Analysis of Legal Contracts and Identification of Areas for Enhancement
  Atefeh Soltanifard (Advisor: Allison Lahnala | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
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• Personalized Models for Fake News Detection
  Fabio Gruschka (Advisor: Dr. Charlie Welch | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
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• Using Values to Guide a Chatbot for Public Engagement in Neuroethics
  Sofia Romero Romero (Advisor: Dr. Charlie Welch | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
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• Learning Style Distance for Controllable Generation with Nearest Neighbor Language Models
  Gilles Nawezi (Advisor: Dr. Charlie Welch | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
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• Personalized Models for Fake News Detection
  Fabio Gruschka (Advisor: Dr. Charlie Welch | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
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• Controllable Generation Using kNN Language Models
  Severino Trotta (Advisor: Dr. Charlie Welch | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
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• NLP Methods for Indoctrination Analysis and Detection in GDR and FRG History Textbooks
  Lars Wolf (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
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• Socio-Demographic Profiling of Social Media Opinion Bubbles and Users Vulnerable to Fake News
  Henri-Jacques Geiss (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
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