Teaching and Supervision

Guest lecturer, M.Sc. Computational Linguistics, LMU Munich

  • Dialect NLP: Thinking outside the box when processing non-standard and low-resource languages (Human-Centric NLP seminar, summer 2025, slides, handout)
  • Dialect NLP: For whom and with what data? (Human-Centric NLP seminar, summer 2024)
  • Creating a Universal Dependencies treebank (Linguistic Annotation Frameworks seminar, summer 2024, slides)

Course tutor, B.A. Computational Linguistics, University of Tübingen

  • Statistical Natural Language Processing (summer 2018, website)
  • Data Structures and Algorithms for Language Processing II (summer 2017)
  • Data Structures and Algorithms for Language Processing I (winter 2016/17)

Thesis advisor, B.Sc./M.Sc. Computational Linguistics, LMU Munich
I supervise B.Sc. and M.Sc. theses on topics related to my own research (examiner: Barbara Plank). For more information, please check this website. Thesis projects I've supervised so far:

  • Slot and intent detection for Upper German dialects with auxiliary task learning – Xaver Maria Krückl, M.Sc. thesis, 2024; published at VarDial 2025
  • Interpretable machine learning for dialect classification – Zihang Sun, M.Sc. thesis, 2024
  • Automatically identifying regional languages of Italy – Silvia Cardani, M.Sc. thesis, 2023
  • Automatic dialect identification in Vietnamese text – Vu Hoang Anh Dang, B.Sc. thesis, 2023
  • Lexicon-based data synthesis for Swiss German POS tagging – Barbara Kovačić, B.Sc. thesis, 2023; presented at TaCoS 2023

Research internship mentor, LMU Munich

  • Evaluating speech synthesis systems for (dialectal) German – Simone Ciciliano, M.A. research internship (Free University of Bozen–Bolzano), 2024