Master and Bachelor theses written in SALSA

This is an (incomplete) list of theses written recently within the SALSA project. If you are interested in writting a Master or Bachelor thesis in SALSA, have a look at our current topics or send an email to salsa-mit@coli.uni-sb.de to discuss your ideas.

(Note: if you wrote a Master or Bachelor thesis in SALSA which is missing from this list, please send us an email and we'll add it.)

Master/Dimploma Theses

Yevgeni Berzak. Sense-driven Paraphrase Acquisition for Idiomatic Expressions. Master's Thesis. Universität des Saarlandes, 2010.

Masood Ghayoomi. Frame Assignment with Active Learning Master's Thesis. Universität des Saarlandes, 2009.

Michael Wirth. Ähnlichkeitsmaße für FrameNet Diplomarbeit. Universität des Saarlandes, 2009.
(Note: to play around with some of the distance measures for FrameNet discussed in Michael's thesis try out the PathFinder Tool implemented by Fabian Shirokov and Michael Wirth.)

Torsten Marek. Integration of Light-Weight Semantics into a Syntax Query Formalism Master's Thesis. Universität des Saarlandes, 2009.
(Note: The STAQuery Web Demo provides a web interface for querying the Salsa corpus using Torsten's query formalism.)

Linlin Li. A Cohesion-based Approach for Unsupervised Recognition of Literal and Nonliteral Use of Multiword Expressions. Master's Thesis. Universität des Saarlandes, 2008.

Anna Mündelein. Identification of Idiomatic Expressions Using Parallel Corpora. Master's Thesis. Universität des Saarlandes, 2008.

Michael Roth. Representing FrameNet in Semantic Spaces. Master's thesis, Universität des Saarlandes. 2008

Konstantina Garoufi. Towards a better understanding of applied textual entailment annotation and evaluation. Master's Thesis, Universität des Saarlandes, 2007.

Nils Reiter. Towards a Linking of FrameNet and SUMO. Diplomarbeit, Universität des Saarlandes, 2007.

Bachelor Theses

Gerald Schoch. Fallstudien zur syntaktisch-semantischen Unterscheidbarkeit von Wortbedeutungen im Rahmen der Frame-Semantik. Bachelor Thesis, Universität des Saarlandes, 2010.

Phillip Kellner. Adapting the Yarowsky Algorithm for Frame Assignment. Bachelor Thesis, Universität des Saarlandes, 2010.

Fabian Shirokov. Automatische Attribution von Sprechern in Kurzprotokollen des Deutschen Bundeskabinetts. Bachelor Thesis, Universität des Saarlandes, 2009.

Sven Arweiler. Berechnung semantischer Ähnlichkeit: Ein Vergleich zwischen WordNet und FrameNet. Bachelor Thesis, Universität des Saarlandes, 2008.