Supervision and Teaching

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Teaching

• Advanced Applied Statistics
  MSc in Data Science, IT University of Copenhagen (2023-2024)
• Advanced Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning
  MSc in Data Science, IT University of Copenhagen (2022-2024)
• Advanced Applied Statistics and Multivariate Calculus
  MSc in Data Science, IT University of Copenhagen (2021-2022)
• First Year Project (Introduction to Natural Language Processing)
  BSc in Data Science, IT University of Copenhagen (2021-2022)
• Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing
  MA in Language Technology, Uppsala University (2017-2019)
• Introduction to Language Technology
  BA in Language Technology, Uppsala University (2014-2015)
• Machine Translation
  BA and MA in Language Technology, Uppsala University (2013-2016)

Supervision

Postdoc

• Gongbo Tang (Uppsala University, 2021-2022)

PhD Students

• Andreas Motzfeldt (IT University of Copenhagen. Main supervisor: Anna Rogers)
• Ahmed Ruby (Uppsala University. Co-supervised with Sara Stymne)
• Marija Stepanović (IT University of Copenhagen) Thesis: Phonetic Vowel Representations for Cross-Lingual Automatic Speech Recognition (defended 12/2024)
• Dennis Ulmer (IT University of Copenhagen. Co-supervised with Jes Frellsen, DTU)
  Thesis: On Uncertainty in Natural Language Processing (defended 09/2024)
• Daniel Varab (IT University of Copenhagen)
  Thesis: Better Language Support and Pragmatic System Designs for Automatic Text Summarization (defended 06/2023)
• Yan Shao (Uppsala University. Main supervisor: Joakim Nivre)
  Thesis: Segmenting and Tagging Text with Neural Networks (defended 06/2018)
• Ali Basirat (Uppsala University. Main supervisor: Joakim Nivre)
  Thesis: Principal Word Vectors (defended 09/2018)
• Murathan Kurfalı (Stockholm University. Main supervisor: Robert Östling)
  Thesis: Contributions to Shallow Discourse Parsing: To English and beyond (defended 03/2022)
• Sharid Loáiciga (Supervision during a 1-year visit on a mobility grant)

Master and Bachelor Theses

MSc in Data Science, IT University of Copenhagen

• Paul Engelmann: Parameter-Efficient Detection of Dehumanizing Animal Metaphors (with Peter Brunsgaard Trolle)

MSc in Computer Science, IT University of Copenhagen

• Kasper Thomas Gartside Knudsen: Advanced Feature Engineering for AI Text Detection
• Hieu Lam: Gender Bias in Language Models: A Case Study of the US and Scandinavia (with Barbara Plank)

MSc in Software Design, IT University of Copenhagen

• Louis Kofoed Drejer and Frederik Lind: Detection of Threats
• Jesper Vaaben Bornerup: Generating, Annotating and Extracting Information from Nurse Notes
• Jakob Lindby Tolstrup: Improving Natural Language Interfaces for GraphQL APIs - A Study on Error Analysis and Synthetic Data Generation (with Maria Barrett)
• Kasper Dahl Andersen: Probabilistic Methods for Record Linkage between Historical Censuses
• Adem Ajvazi: Offensive Language in Kosovo Social Media

MA in Language Technology, Uppsala University

• Arra’di Nur Rizal: An Empirical Study of Neural Machine Translation Approaches in Limited Data Scenarios
• Luise Dürlich: Automatic Recognition and Classification of Translation Errors in Human Translation
• Camilla Casula: Transfer learning for multilingual offensive language detection with BERT
• Ailsa Meechan-Maddon: The effect of noise in the training of convolutional neural networks for text summarisation
• Gabi Rolih: Applying Coreference Resolution for Usage in Dialog Systems
• Jenny Kunz: Neural Language Models with Explicit Coreference Decision
• Yuxin Shen: Iterative Creation of a Chinese Data Set for Relation Extraction
• Aaron Smith: BLEU decoding and feature weight tuning in Docent (with Jörg Tiedemann)

BSc in Data Science, IT University of Copenhagen

• Noah Brunken Syrkis: On Inferring Human Values from Population Reading Activity
• Kasper Thomas Gartside Knudsen: Domain-Coverage of Low-Resource Chatbots

BSc in Software Development, IT University of Copenhagen

• Nicolaj Heinrich Pedersen, Christopher Ryder Cortsen: Inference with Very Large Language Models und Resource Constraints (with Lottie Greenwood)
• Philip August Hyltoft, Gustav Valdemar Metnik-Beck, Joachim de Fries Willumsen: Flashcard Generation with NLP (with Louise Meier Carlsen)

BA in Language Technology, Uppsala University

• Odd Jakobsson: Pronoun Translation between English and Icelandic
• Jakob Berntsson: Variable Insertion and Search in a Translation Memory