Bachelor's- and Master's Theses at the Institute of Computer Science

The Research Center for Digital Sustainability supervises bachelor's and master's theses at the Institute of Computer Science on the following topics:

Topic Supervisor
Natural Language Processing (NLP) Luca Rolshoven
Open Source Software Matthias Stürmer
Open Data Matthias Stürmer
Linked Data Benedikt Hitz
Community IoT (The Things Network) Benedikt Hitz

 

Current Theses

Current Theses
Topic Area Level Status Student

Project Start

Optimizing Document Parsing Pipelines via LLM-Guided Evaluation NLP Master In Progress Jiangnan Zhang

HS25

NLP for Public Procurement (multiple topics, contact Luca Rolshoven) NLP Bachelor / Master Available - Anytime
NLP – Need Help Finding a Topic? Reach Out to Luca Rolshoven NLP Bachelor / Master Available - Anytime
Fine-Tuning Embedding Models for Sustainability Analysis in Public Procurement NLP Master In Progress Julien Gaumez FS25

Previous Theses

Previous Theses
 Topic

Suitable Level

Student 

Project Duration 

Web Scraping for a Database of Court Decision Related Documents

Seminar/Bachelor's

Alec Schürmann

May 2021 – Jan. 2022

Dataset Construction for Legal Multilingual Language Models

Seminar

Thirith Yang

Sep. 2021 – Jan. 2022

Re-Identification with Data from the Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board

Seminar

Atefeh Fakhari

Mar. 2022 – Sep. 2022

Section Splitting for Swiss Court Rulings

Seminar

Alexandra-Carmen Kovacs 

Sep. 2021 – Jan. 2022

Judgment Outcome Extraction for Swiss Court Rulings

Seminar/Bachelor's

Bachelor: Marco Buchholz
Seminar HS21 finished: Christian Kissling, Nidhi Mishra

Oct. 2021 – present

Sep. 2021 – Jan. 2022

Judicial Person Extraction for Swiss Court Rulings

Seminar/Bachelor's

Seminar HS21 finished: Benjamin Bläsi, Seyedehsharareh Mirzargar, Alex Nyffenegger

available as Bachelor's Thesis

Oct. 2021 – Jan. 2022

Legal Area Prediction for Swiss Court Rulings

Bachelor's/Master's

available

 

Criticality Prediction for Swiss Court Rulings

Bachelor's/Master's

Ronja Stern

Nov. 2021 – present

Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Natural Language Inference Models for Judgment Prediction

 

Seminar

Boris Mottet, Tunahan Öszoy

Mar. 2022 – Jul. 2022

Explainability Annotations for Legal Judgment Prediction in Switzerland

Bachelor's/Master's

Nina Baumgartner

Feb. 2022 – present

Explainability Methods for Legal Judgment Prediction in Switzerland

Seminar/Bachelor's

Ying Ying Lee, Xinwei Li, Bohua Chen

Mar. 2022 – Jul. 2022

Sentence Boundary Detection for Multilingual Legal Text

Bachelor's

Tobias Brugger

Feb. 2022 – present

Negation Scope Resolution for the Multilingual Legal Domain

Bachelor's/Master's

Ramona Christen

Sep. 2022 – present

Re-Identification in Court Decisions with Pretrained Language Models

Bachelor's/Master's

Alex Nyffenegger

Feb. 2022 – present

Data Augmentation for Legal NLP

Bachelor's/Master's

Vishvaksenan Rasiah

Feb. 2022 – present

Topic Modeling for Swiss Court Rulings

Seminar

Dominik Ummel, Marius Asadauskas, Renato Rao

Mar. 2022 – Jul. 2022

Can the Best Jass AIs Beat the Top Humans?

Bachelor's/Master's

Roman Martinez

Mar. 2022 – present

Transformers for the Swiss Card Game Jass

Master's

unavailable

Re-Identification in Court Decisions with Knowledge Graphs

Master's

unavailable

Knowledge Graph Construction from Swiss Big Data

Bachelor's/Master's

unavailable

Developing a Tool to Classify Types of Information from Comments

Seminar

unavailable