Teaching and Supervision

Course co-instructor, B.Sc./M.Sc. Computational Linguistics, LMU Munich

  • NLP for Dialects (M.Sc. seminar, with Barbara Plank and Ryan Soh-Eun Shim), winter 2025/26
  • Symbolische Programmiersprache (de facto: Introduction to NLP and ML; B.Sc. lecture, with Barbara Plank), winter 2025/26

Guest lecturer

  • Dialect NLP
    • AI & Ethics / Introduction to AI, Sungkyunkwan University (online) – slides, handout – fall 2025
    • Human-Centric NLP seminar, LMU Munich – slides, handout – summer 2024, 2025
  • Creating a Universal Dependencies treebank (Linguistic Annotation Frameworks seminar, LMU Munich, slides), summer 2024

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

  • Statistical Natural Language Processing (website), summer 2018
  • 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:

  • Indirect question answering for Bavarian – Miriam Winkler, M.Sc. thesis, 2025
  • 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