Completed Theses:

2024

  • From Role-Playing to Perspective Taking: A Gamified Approach to Evaluate Large Language Models
    Mohamad Mehdi Balouchi (Advisor: Vahid Sadiri Javadi | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
  • Propaganda Detection in Arabic on Twitter and in News Articles using Data Augmentation and Agnostic Language Embedding
    Farizeh Aldabbas (Advisor: Shaina Ashraf | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
  • Generative Language Models for Translating Dialectal Arabic
    Bouthaina Soulef Abdou (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
  • LLMs Robustness to Real-World Errors in Text
    Amirhossein Aliakbarzadeh (Advisor: Dr. Akbar Karimi | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek)
  • 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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