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Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics

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Part of a Bachelor's or Master's program involves writing a thesis that treats a subject in the student's degree program in a scholarly manner.

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Completion time and scope, general procedure, selection of topic and supervisor – business and economics, selection of topic and supervisor – quantitative finance, selection of topic and supervisor – informatics, olat process: registration, collection of project definition, and submission of thesis, alternative process: registration, collection of project definition and submission of thesis.

Registration for graduation

Note on publication

The information below applies to all theses.

*Plan the completion of your degree in advance, taking into consideration the published deadlines.

Registration deadlines

There are different procedures for the thesis process, from the issuance of the binding project definition to the timely and formally correct submission. The exact procedure is determined by the supervisor. 

For students of Informatics , the information and documents can be found on the website of the Department of Informatics.

Fact sheet for Bachelor's theses in Informatics   Fact sheet for Master's theses in Informatics

For students of Business and Economics as well as of the Joint Degree Master Program in Quantitative Finance of UZH and ETH, the two possible procedures for the process from registration to submission are presented below.

Business and Economics students may write their thesis with a professor of their choice from the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics at UZH. The individual departments can provide additional assistance when it comes to selecting a topic.

Information from the Department of Finance   Topics suggested by the Departments of Economics and Business Administration (German only (PDF, 271 KB)

Students of the joint degree Master's program in Quantitative Finance at UZH and ETH may write their thesis with a professor of their choice from the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics at UZH or the Department of Mathematics at ETH.

Information on the Quantitative Finance program

Informatics students must write their thesis with a professor from their program of study.

List and information for Bachelor's theses in Informatics   List and information for Master's theses in Informatics

After you have found a supervisor the further steps will be done via OLAT. You will receive an e-mail from your supervisor stating that you have been accepted into an OLAT course and that you can start with your thesis. As soon as you have selected the link in the e-mail and have thus joined the course, you will have one day (24 hours) to select your thesis topic.

With your selection, your personal workflow in OLAT will start in which the binding deadline will be recorded and which will always be visible for you. You will also receive an e-mail with the binding deadline. Please note that the deadline has to be met.

The following instructions describe the process and the further steps you have to take now.

Instructions OLAT (PDF, 960 KB)

You must submit your final thesis digitally in OLAT no later than the binding deadline (accessible in your personal workflow in OLAT or in the assignment email at the beginning of the workflow). Theses submitted late are considered to have been failed. Please be aware that the deadline is defined to the minute precisely and this has to be adhered to

Business and Economics or Quantitative Finance students can request their project definition by e-mail to [email protected] . They will also receive their topic and the exact deadline by e-mail. The submission will also be done by e-mail.

Fact sheet for theses using analogue procedure in Business and Economics and in Quantitative Finance (PDF, 126 KB)

The following documents must be attached to the e-mail:

• Proof of matriculation (e.g., student ID card)
• Students in a Bachelor's program: Proof that the assessment level has been passed (transcript of records, module booking printout or online summary of credits on a smartphone, tablet, or laptop)
• Students in a Master's program: Proof of admission to the Master's program for students who have not obtained a Bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics at the University of Zurich (letter of admission incl. any appendix to the letter of admission).
• The completed registration form.

Form for Business and Economics (PDF, 545 KB)   Form for Quantitative Finance (PDF, 545 KB)

The thesis must be submitted by e-mail  no later than the agreed submission deadline (until 23:59) to [email protected]

The thesis may not be placed in the Dean's Office mailbox.

Theses submitted late are considered to have been failed.

In order to register for graduation certain deadlines apply. Please consider the information on the degree conferral dates:

Degree conferral dates

The actual registration for graduation takes place in the app "Study progress & graduation". Please not the procedure on the following website:

Publication by UZH As a researcher at the University of Zurich, you are required by the UZH Open Science Policy to publish a complete version of your current publications on the ZORA repository, if the legal situation allows it. Further information on publishing on the UZH ZORA repository can be found here .

Publication by external parties After completing their final theses, students repeatedly receive requests from (mainly) German publishers for a publication. Such requests should be treated with caution. Clarify any publication with your supervisor in advance. The supervisor can impose conditions for a publication. Ultimately, however, it is your decision whether you want to publish with a publisher. You should be aware that this is not to be equated with a publication in a scientific journal. Further information on the various publication channels can be found here .

Weiterführende Informationen

Contact Dean's Office

For the submission of documents and for questions of all kinds: E-Mail

Telephone hours for inquiries about the studies (except for questions regarding Master's admission and credit transfer ): +41 44 634 21 24 Mornings: Mon, Thu, Fri 9:30-11:30am Midday: Tue, 10:30am-12:30pm Evenings: Wed, 17:00-18:00pm

Opening hours Dean's Office desk (KOL-G-207): Tuesdays, 14.00-16.00pm

Study Coordination Informatics

Office BIN 2.B.11 Binzmühlestrasse 14 8050 Zurich Office hours

Contacts (sorted alphabetically by students' surnames)

A to J: Bea Girardet, Dekanat E-Mail  

K to O: Donata Mikosch, Dekanat E-Mail  

P to S: Richard Müller-Winter, Dekanat E-Mail  

T to Z: Susanne Erber, Dekanat E-Mail

Information Search in the Central Library

The central library regularly offers courses and workshops on researching academic literature:

• Research workshops (German only)
• Individual research support

If suspicion of plagiarism arises, supervisors will apply PlagScan-in-a-BOX to the thesis to verify if plagiarism is present.

Master's theses that are to be published on ZORA are always checked by means of software beforehand.

• Fact sheet on plagiarism (PDF, 109 KB)
• Scan Software «Turnitin Similarities»
• UZH website

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English Department

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Some information is available on the website of the Faculty of Arts . Below, you find the most important guidelines for Master Theses at the English Department. However, we strongly encourage you to read the Faculty guidelines as well.

Template Cover Master Thesis (English) (DOCX, 56 KB)

You may also wish to consult the section on extending deadlines (only possible in cases of force majeure) .

Whom Can You Choose as Your Supervisor?

• The Master Thesis is usually supervised by a professor .
• Other members of staff holding a PhD degree are also allowed to supervise Master Theses. Note, however, that they are not obliged to do so.
• To find out what types of topics individual instructors may be interested in supervising , you can consult their homepages. You can find links to all instructors' homepages on the UZH English Department's Staff List .

When to Contact Potential Supervisors?

Make sure to contact a potential supervisor prior to booking the Master Thesis online - ideally at the end of the preceding semester, but no later than:

• August 5 if wishing to book the two-semester module in the fall semester;
• January 5 if wishing to book the two-semester module in the spring semester.

When and How Do I Book the Master Thesis?

• The Master Thesis must be booked online , during the module booking period .

By When Do I Need to Submit?

• December 1 (for the fall semester);
• June 1 (for the spring semester).

Template Cover Master Thesis (German) (DOCX, 56 KB)

• Note that your supervisor may ask you to submit the Master Thesis earlier than this (e.g. mid-November for the fall semester).

How Long Should the Master Thesis Be?

Usually, the Master Thesis is between c. 20,000 and 30,000 words (not counting the bibliography). Note, however, that supervisors may accept theses that are shorter or longer. In other words, if in doubt, discuss the question of length with your supervisor.

Please also consult the following documents:

• Linguistics: Manual for Writers of Papers in English Linguistics
• Literature: Literature Guide

How Much Supervision? And What If I Don't Hear Back?

You are expected to conduct most of your research for the Master Thesis independently. However, supervisors will of course be happy to provide a certain level of guidance.

• At the start of the supervision process, you should discuss the mode of supervision with your supervisor (e.g. Will there be regular meetings? How often are you allowed/supposed to contact your supervisor?)
• Should you encounter any major problems, then please make sure to get in touch with your supervisor as early as possible!

Usually, supervisors at the UZH English Department will try to respond to your queries within 48 hours (working days, i.e. not counting weekends).

Should you not not hear back from your supervisor within three to four working days, then please send them a short reminder.

If you still do not hear back from your supervisor after your second message (within three to four working days), you should contact the advisor of studies at [email protected] .

Organizing the Master Thesis: Two Examples

The Master Thesis is, usually, a two-semester module. Accordingly, the following examples cover the two most common cases.

• ideally contact your supervisor at the end of the fall semester in the previous year, but no later than January 5, to find out whether they are willing to supervise your topic;
• book the Master Thesis during the module booking period of the spring semester (end of January/early February);
• submit the Master Thesis no later than on December 1 (or earlier, if your supervisor has given you an earlier submission date).
• ideally contact your supervisor at the end of the spring semester in the previous year, but no later than August 5, to find out whether they are willing to supervise your topic;
• book the Master Thesis during the module booking period of the fall semester (end of August/early September);
• submit the Master Thesis no later than on June 1 (or earlier, if your supervisor has given you an earlier submission date).

If you would like to submit your Master Thesis at the end of the first semester, then the corresponding deadlines would apply (i.e. June 1 for the spring and December 1 for the fall semester).

Module Description

Weiterführende informationen.

• Prospective Students
• First-Semester Students
• Advanced Students

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Master of Science UZH ETH in Quantitative Finance

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The Master's thesis is written towards the end of the Master of Science UZH ETH in Quantitative Finance over a period of 6 months. It is graded and accounts for 30 ECTS credit points. 

The students of the joint program MSc UZH ETH in Quantitative Finance have to conclude the program with a colloquium talk of 30 minutes in which they present their Master's thesis. The colloquium talks are open to the public.

An information event on  Master's Thesis  and Graduation  is organized every spring for MSc QF UZH ETH students.

Purpose of the Master's Thesis

We want to appraise your ability

• to identify and analyze a problem on your own; and
• to apply the tools, techniques and concepts you have learned in the courses with little or even no guidance.

Nature of the Master's Thesis

You have a lot of flexibility in your choice of project:

• One possible choice is to write a 'clinical paper' such as those published regularly in the Journal of Financial Economics. A clinical paper is an extended case study, which uses rather more empirical finance techniques than do the more classical, Harvard-type case studies.
• Another possible choice is to conduct an empirical study on a sample of companies, rather than the single company that is the focus of a clinical paper.
• Yet another choice is to write a theory paper like those published in Mathematical Finance or Finance and Stochastics .

Whatever the choice you make, you should guard against writing a simple survey of the literature. Such surveys do not fulfill the requirements for the Master's thesis.

Experience shows that a Master's thesis is in general not ready for a publication, because it is - and should be - more detailed than a published paper. Therefore, if you aim for a publication, plan on investing substantial time after handing in your Master's thesis.

Master's Thesis in Groups

Group work is not permitted.

Master's Thesis Presentation

The Master's thesis presentation consists of a 30 minutes presentation followed by questions. It is open to the public and will be officially announced.

Choice of Topic

Any field of (mathematical) finance is acceptable, insurance related topics included. Examples of possible topics are mergers and acquisitions, distribution policy, financing policy, investment policy, restructuring activity, real options valuation, derivatives pricing, hedging, fixed-income valuation, interest rate contingent claims valuation, credit-sensitive contingent claims valuation, operational risk modelling, model risk issues, securitization, numerical methods for option valuation, time series modelling, capital allocation, performance measurement, risk measurement, and many more. 

Students can also choose or propose subjects for their Master's thesis in the DBF Theses Market of the Department of Finance of the University of Zurich.

Finding a Supervisor and a Topic

Any professor from the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics at the University of Zurich and any professor from the Department of Mathematics of ETH Zurich can be your thesis supervisor. In case you consider writing a Master's Thesis with a professor from the Department of Finance please proceed via the  DBF Thesis Market .

Since we encourage a strong cooperation with the financial industry, consider also the following thoughts:

Your thesis is officially supervised by a local professor, but a practitioner comes up with the precise topic and gives you the needed guidance.

You already have contacts to the financial industry (because you have received a tuition fee grant, for example) and you use these contacts to negotiate for an interesting project and guidance.

You are eager to work on a practical project, but you currently lack the industry contacts. In this case, ask one of the lecturers or the Director of the MSc UZH ETH in Quantitative Finance program for contact persons.

You might want to combine the Master's thesis with a part-time internship in the financial industry.

In any case, make sure your thesis supervisor is really interested in the topic you plan to work on.

In case of conflicts of interests, please look at the guidelines - conflicts of interest (PDF, 169 KB)

Role of the Supervisor

The supervisor has an important, but limited role. He/she is to ensure that the topic you have agreed on is both acceptable and feasible in the limited time, and that the method of analysis you have chosen is appropriate and correct. Once this is done, you are essentially on your own until you hand in the Master's thesis for grading.

The thesis supervisor is not expected to read a first draft of the report. However, arrange for meetings with your supervisor to report briefly about your progress so that he/she can give you some suggestions and bring you on the right track again if necessary.

Suggested Length and Form

The Master's thesis should be about 20-60 pages long, but it is quality and not quantity that matters. In essence, you should tell us as much as - and no more than - we need to understand what the problem is, what we can learn from it or how you have solved it.

You should familiarize yourself with the necessary text processing or typesetting software you plan to use before you start to work on your Master's thesis. If you plan on writing a mathematically-orientated thesis (i.e., lots of formulas), the free TeX/LaTeX typesetting software is a good option, but requires a substantial initial time investment.

The thesis has to be written in English and be typed and printed in reasonable quality. Exact proofreading is required and use of a spelling checker recommended.

The period allowed for completion of the Master's thesis is 6 months and starts with the formal issuance of the topic. The oral presentation of the Master's thesis has to be done within 4 weeks after the submission of the thesis. If your Master's thesis is the last module before the completion of your studies please look at the Dean's Office degree deadlines .

Evaluation and ECTS Credit Points

The Master's thesis is graded. The supervising professor will assess the work submitted including the public presentation and will inform the student in writing of the grade awarded. 30 ECTS credit points are awarded for the completion of the Master's thesis if the grade is at least 4.

Note on Publication Request

After completing their final theses, students repeatedly receive requests from (mainly) German publishers for a publication. Such requests should be treated with caution. Clarify any publication with your supervisor in advance. The supervisor can impose conditions for a publication.

Ultimately however, it is your decision whether you want to publish with a publisher. You should be aware that this is not to be equated with a publication in a scientific journal.

Further information

Please check the program regulations . This page is solely for information purposes and has no legal validity.

Further information also on:

Thesis at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics

Thesis at the Department of Finance - DBF Thesis Market

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Department of Computational Linguistics

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• Niclas Bodenmann : (Key) Phrase Extraction with Masked Language Models and Information Theory (PDF, 1 MB) [Januar 2024, master's thesis, English]
• Jana Mara Hofmann : Predicting Reading Fluency with LSTMs (PDF, 3 MB) [December 2023, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Michelle Wastl : Unsupervised Translation Direction Detection (PDF, 2 MB) [December 2023, master's thesis, English]
• Andreas Säuberli : Automatic Generation and Evaluation of Multiple-Choice Reading Comprehension Items with Large Language Models (PDF, 2 MB) [December 2023, master's thesis, English]
• Elina Stüssi : Part-of-Speech Tagging on 16th Century Latin (PDF, 5 MB) [December 2023, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Iris Zoder : Impact of Lingusitic Versus Data Properties for Swiss German ASR (PDF, 1 MB) [June 2023, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Naomi Bleiker : Evaluation of Pre-trained Metrics and ChatGPT as Document-level Machine Translation Metrics (PDF, 863 KB) [June 2023, master's thesis, English]
• Renate Hauser : Adapting Gender-Inclusive Rewriting Models to Gender-Neutral German (PDF, 440 KB) [June 2023, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Daniela Hofmann : Computergestützte Erkennung von Textwiederverwendung in Schweizer Stellenanzeigen (PDF, 1 MB) [June 2023, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Sarah Kiener : Schneeschrauben, Himmelbäume, Gartengebäcke. Investigating and Enhancing the Sensitivity of Trained Neural Metrics to German Compounds (PDF, 874 KB) [June 2023, master's thesis, English]
• Sooyeon Cho : Attention Biasing for Knowledge-enhanced Review Response Generation (PDF, 999 KB) [June 2023, master's thesis, English]
• Laura Stahlhut : Inferring text comprehension from eye movements in reading using deep neural sequence models (PDF, 4 MB) [June 2023, master's thesis, English]
• Ahmet Uluslu : Exploring Hybrid Linguistic Features for Automatic Readability Assessment in Turkish (PDF, 1 MB) [June 2023, master's thesis, English]
• Luisa Wunderlin : Adversarial Attacks in German Hate Speech Detection (PDF, 1 MB) [December 2022, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Sabrina Brändle : Machine Translation of Complex Sentences from Latin to German (PDF, 732 KB) [December 2022, master's thesis, English]
• Eirini Valkana : Code-switching detection in the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing (1375-1800) (PDF, 831 KB) [December 2022, master's thesis, English]
• Rebecka Fahrni : Evaluation of the Application of the Open-Source Python Toolbox MNE for the Assessment of Neural Processing of Degraded Speech from Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (PDF, 6 MB) [December 2022, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Moritz Preisig : Analysing Social Media comments with Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Learning Techniques (PDF, 695 KB) [December 2022, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Salome Wildermuth : Modeling dialogues for querying orofacial pain patients (PDF, 569 KB) [December 2022, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Kim Hai Dinh : Medical Chatbot: A Hybrid Task-Oriented Dialogue System for Collecting Dental Healthcare Data by using T5 to Generate Questions (PDF, 568 KB) [December 2022, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Wenyuan Wu : Cross-lingual Projection of Text Zoning Labels for Job Advertisements (PDF, 7 MB) [December 2022, master's thesis, English]
• Lucas Seiler : Sentence Compression in Machine Translation (PDF, 325 KB) [December 2022, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Helen Schaller : Respond in Style: Personalising Review Response Generation by Optimising Continuous Prefixes (PDF, 2 MB) [December 2022, master's thesis, English]
• Eyal Dolev : Using Multilingual Word Embeddings for Similarity-Based Word Alignments in a Zero-Shot Setting Tested on the Case of German–Romansh (PDF, 3 MB) [August 2022, master's thesis, English]
• Victor Bielawski : Improving comprehensibility of rule-based text-to-speech output: eSpeak-NG and Polish (PDF, 707 KB) [July 2022, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Ismail Prada : Telling News from Chatter: Automated Multi-Label Classification of 16th Century Documents (PDF, 1 MB) [June 2022, master's thesis, English]
• Gian Radler : Improving Optical Character Recognition Output by Using a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Model (PDF, 326 KB) [June 2022, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Berna Ilke Ersoy : Quantifying the Polarity of Noun Phrases (PDF, 664 KB) [June 2022, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Deborah Jakobi : Grapheme-to-Phoneme Mapping in Text (PDF, 1 MB) [May 2022, master's thesis, English]
• Christina Maria Müller : Comparison of rule compliance in corpora for the Austrian and Brazilian Easy Languages (PDF, 420 KB) [March 2022, CAS report, English]
• Zifan Jiang : Machine Translation between Spoken Languages and Signed Languages in Written Form (PDF, 2 MB) [February 2022, master's thesis, English]
• Camille Watter : VOT of bilabial and alveolar stops in Zurich German: a sociophonetic study (PDF, 8 MB) [December 2021, master's thesis, English]
• Luca Salini : Maschinelle Übersetzungssysteme von Französisch in die Schweizer Standardvarietät (PDF, 183 KB) [December 2021, bachelor's thesis, German]
• Francesco Tinner : Zero-shot Cross-lingual Transfer of the Topic Modeling Task (PDF, 1 MB) [December 2021, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Silvio Daniele Magaldi : A Task-specific Neural Translation Model for the Stellenmonitor Pipeline (PDF, 599 KB) [December 2021, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Andreas Säuberli : Measuring Reading Comprehension and Text Comprehensibility Using a Touchscreen Application (PDF, 597 KB) Zusammenfassung in leichter Sprache (PDF, 50 KB) (Deutsch) [July 2021, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Atreya Shankar :  SoPa++: Leveraging explainability from hybridized RNN, CNN and weighted finite-state neural architectures (PDF, 1 MB) [July 2021, master's thesis, English]
• Sophia Conrad : Toward automatic diagnosis of medical conditions involving speech impairment (PDF, 510 KB) [June 2021, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Karin Thommen : Emotionsanalyse in literarischen Texten mittels Machine Learning (PDF, 2 MB) [June 2021, bachelor's thesis, German]
• Debora Beuret : Uncovering the role of prosody in voice discrimination (PDF, 1 MB) [June 2021, master's thesis, English]
• Vera Bernhard : Automatic Lexical Stress Detection in Isolated English Words (PDF, 520 KB) Awarded with the Semester Award UZH spring semester 21 (FS21). Congratulations! [June 2021, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Lorenz Nagele :  Experiments on the Pronunciation Lexicon for Swiss German ASR (PDF, 578 KB) [December 2020, master's thesis, English]
• Tim Graf : Lexically Constrained Decoding using Insertion Transformer (PDF, 449 KB) [December 2020, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Adrian Van der Lek : CogniValSent. An extension of the CogniVal framework to evaluate the cognitive plausibility of sentence-level embeddings (PDF, 2 MB) [July 2020, master's thesis, English]
• Elainne Marie Vibal : Swiss Accident Prevention Meets NMT: An Evaluation of Machine Translated Texts with a Focus on Helvetisms (PDF, 2 MB) [July 2020, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Anja Ryser : Erstellung und Alignierung eines parallelen Korpus auf der Basis von “The Times in Plain English” (PDF, 387 KB) [July 2020, bachelor's thesis, German]
• Nicolas Spring :  Probing Tasks for Noised Back-Translation (PDF, 3 MB) [June 2020, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Iuliia Nigmatulina :  Acoustic modelling for Swiss German ASR (PDF, 6 MB) [June 2020, master's thesis, English]
• Tannon Kew : Language representation and modelling for Swiss German ASR (PDF, 2 MB) [May 2020, master's thesis, English]
• Markus Göckeritz : Eager Machine Tanslation (PDF, 2 MB) [March 2020, master's thesis, English]
• Alon Cohen : Aussprachebewertung von Vokalen mittels Formantenanalyse (PDF, 1 MB) [Dec 2019, bachelor's thesis, German]
• Stefan Bircher :  Toulouse and Cahors are French Cities, but T«i*louse and Caa.Qrs as well (PDF, 3 MB) [July 2019, master's thesis, English]
• Alessia Battisti : Automatic Cluster Analysis of Texts in Simplified German (PDF, 4831 KB) [June 2019, master's thesis, English]
• Michaela Benk :  Data Augmentation in Deep Learning for Hate Speech Detection in Lower Resource Settings (PDF, 1 MB) [June 2019, master's thesis, English]
• Janis Goldzycher : Taxonomy Learning without Labeled Data (PDF, 441 KB) [June 2019, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Isabel Meraner : Grasping the Nettle: Neural Entity Recognition for Scientific and Vernacular Plant Names (PDF, 1 MB)   [March 2019, master's thesis, English]
• Luzia Roth : Event Detection using bidirectional Long Short Term Memory Neural Networks [June 2018, master's thesis, English] ​
• Mara Bertamini : Domänenspezifische neuronale maschinelle Übersetzung für finanzwirtschaftliche Texte (PDF, 814 KB) [June 2018, master's thesis, German] ​
• Jasmin Heierli : Lemma Disambiguation in Multilingual Parallel Corpora (PDF, 1 MB) [June 2018, master's thesis, English] ​
• Massimo Lusetti : Normalization of Swiss German WhatsApp Messages with Statistical and Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Methods (PDF, 2 MB) [June 2018, master's thesis, English] ​
• Christof Bless : Information Retrieval Chatbots (PDF, 506 KB) [June 2018, bachelor's thesis, English] ​
• Noëmi Aepli : Parsing Approaches for Swiss German (PDF, 2 MB) [January 2018, master's thesis, English] ​
• Chantal Amrhein :  Post-Correcting OCR Errors Using Neural Machine Translation (PDF, 3 MB) [December 2017, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Sumanghalyah Suntharam : Perks and Problems of Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis (PDF, 867 KB) [November 2017, master's thesis, English]
• Xi Rao : Automatic Labeling of Articles in International Investment Agreements (PDF, 9 MB) [July 2017, master's thesis, English]
• Parijat Ghoshal : Topic Modeling and Visualisation of Diachronic Trends in Biomedical Academic Articles (PDF, 2 MB) [June 2017, master's thesis, English]
• Yvonne Gwerder : Named Entity Recognition in Digitized Historical Texts (PDF, 1 MB) [June 2017, master's thesis, English]
• Mathias Müller : Treatment of Markup in Statistical Machine Translation (PDF, 942 KB) [January 2017, master's thesis, English]
• Phillip Ströbel : The Raison d’Etre  of Word Embeddings in Identifying Multiword Expressions in Bilingual Corpora [January 2017, master's thesis, English]
• Andrea Fritz : Erstellung eines parallelen Arzneimittelinformations-Korpus (Deutsch-Französisch) und Optimierung von dafür einsetzbaren Part-of-Speech-Taggern (PDF, 84 KB) [January 2017, master's thesis, German] 
• Thomas Murphy : Aspektsentimentklassifikation in Rezensionen (PDF, 436 KB) [January 2017, bachelor's thesis, German]
• Sara S. Wick : Automatic Article Correction in Academic Texts (PDF, 635 KB) [September 2016, master's thesis, English]
• Michela Rossi : Corpus Linguistics Approaches for Multilingual Discourse (PDF, 1 MB) Analysis [July 2016, master's thesis, English] 
• Chiara Baffelli : An Annotation Pipeline for Italian based on Dependency Parsing (PDF, 2 MB) [June 2016, master's thesis, English] 
• Reto Baumgartner : Morphologieanalyse und standarddeutsche Lemmatisierung für schweizerdeutsche Alltagstexte mit gewichteten Transduktoren (PDF, 547 KB) [April 2016, master's thesis, German] 
• Danica Pajovic : ACQDIVIZ - Visualizing Development In Longitudinal First Language Acquisition Data (PDF, 48 MB) [March 2016, master's thesis, English]
• Nicola Colic : Dependency Parsing for Relation Extraction in Biomedical Literature (PDF, 2 MB) [March 2016, master's thesis, English] 
• Lukas Fischer : Sentimentanalyse für Twitter (PDF, 331 KB) [March 2016, bachelor's thesis, German] 
• Dolores Batinic : Words in Mind and Words in Language (PDF, 887 KB) [December 2015, master's thesis, English]
• Julya Suter : Rule-based Text Simplification for German (PDF, 377 KB) [July 2015, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Simon Wegmüller : Twitter Sentiment Analysis: the Use of Automatically Acquired Training Data for Machine Learning and Hybrid Methods (PDF, 802 KB)   [July 2015, bachelor's thesis, English]
• Nadine Stamm : Klassifikation und Analyse von Emotionswörtern in Tweets für die Sentimentanalyse (PDF, 1 MB) [December 2014, bachelor's thesis, German]
• Stéphanie Lehner : Deutsche Substantivkomposita in parallelen Korpora: Erstellung und Evaluation eines multilingualen Goldstandards zur Optimierung der automatischen Übersetzungsbestimmung (PDF, 6 MB) [November 2014, licentiate thesis, German]
• Martina Bachmann : Aspektextraktion in domänenspezifischen Rezensionen (PDF, 545 KB) [July 2014, bachelor's thesis, German]
• Manuela Weibel : Aufbau paralleler Korpora und Implementierung eines wortalignierten Suchsystems für Deutsch – Rumantsch Grischun (PDF, 2 MB) [January 2014,  master's thesis, German] [ Daten (ZIP, 14 MB) ]
• Susanna Tron : A verb-centered Sentiment Analysis for French (PDF, 1 MB) [November 2013, master's thesis, English]
• Lenz Furrer : Unsupervised Text Segmentation for Correcting OCR Errors (PDF, 2 MB) [July 2013, master's thesis, English]
• Katrin Rettich : Automatische Annotation von deutschen und französischen temporalen Ausdrücken im Text+Berg-Korpus [June 2013, master's thesis, German] 
• Jeanette Isele : Machine Translation of Film Subtitles from English to Spanish. Combining a Statistical System with Rule-based Grammar Checking [June 2013, master's thesis, English] 

2012 (and earlier): licentiate theses

• Sarah Ebling : Generalized Templates in Example-Based Machine Translation (PDF, 892 KB) [January 2011, English]
• Annette Rios : Applying Finite-State Techniques to a Native American Language: Quechua (PDF, 1 MB) [November 2010, English]
• Sandra Roth : Automatisches Alignieren in parallelen Baumbanken (PDF, 3 MB) [November 2009, German]
• Anne Göhring : Spanische Erweiterung einer Parallelen Baumbank (PDF, 1 MB) [November 2009, German]
• Don Tuggener : Machine Learning für Koreferenz-Auflösung (PDF, 580 KB) [October 2009, German]
• Rico Sennrich : Syntactically Enriched Statistical Machine Translation from English to German (PDF, 525 KB) [September 2009, English]
• Angela Fahrni : Die Extraktion von Relationen für den Aufbau einer Ontologie (PDF, 5 MB) [April 2009, German]
• Sandra Lüthi : eGramD. ELearning mit Hilfe von computerlinguistisch annotierten Übungstexten für den Deutschunterricht auf Primarstufe (PDF, 2 MB) [April 2008, German]
• Lukas Rieder : Annotating Political Entities in Newspaper Articles: A COSA Implementation Using Finite-State Devices (PDF, 1 MB) [September 2008, English]
• Sandra Roth : Lexikalisch-Semantische Netze: Anwendungsperspektiven für die Computerlinguistik (PDF, 1 MB) [May 2006, German]
• Renata Ševciková : Schwierigkeiten in der automatischen Verarbeitung von Anaphora (PDF, 1 MB) [October 2005, German]
• Johann Fichtner : OT-Parsing (PDF, 5 MB) [October 2005, English]
• Roberto Nespeca : Auf dem Weg zu einem Lexikon, Tagger und Parser für das Antikchinesische: Teil I: Allgemeine Grundlagen und Aufbau linguistischer Analyse-Software (PDF, 8 MB) [October 2005, German]
• Cornelia Steinmann : Computerlinguistische Methoden und Anwendungen zur Unterstütung des Fremdsprachenlernens (PDF, 960 KB) [April 2005, German]
• Magnus Karlsson : The WDT approach. An Index Compression for the specific DoMayn EMayl. In Kooperation mit der Firma IBM, Böblingen. [July 2004]
• Carola Kühnlein : Eigennamenerkennung über Konzeptsensoren (PDF, 1 MB) . In Kooperation mit der Firma Eurospider, Zürich. [December 2003, German]
• Charlotte Merz : A Corpus Query Tool For Syntactically Annotated Corpora (PDF, 896 KB) [May 2003, English]
• Sonja Brodersen : Automatisches Lernen und Anwenden von Syntaxbaumtransformationen mit einem Markow-Modell (PDF, 606 KB) [March 2003, German]
• Jeannette Roth : Der Stand der Kunst in der Eigennamen-Erkennung. Mit einem Fokus auf Produktnamen-Erkennung (PDF, 804 KB) [December 2002, German]
• Christoph Biveroni : Natürlichsprachliche Datenbankschnittstellen: Sprachverstehen und Benutzerinteraktion (PDF, 1 MB) [October 2002, German]
• Catherine Ayer : Die Analyse englischer Nominalisierungen in sprachverarbeitenden Systemen. [June 2002]
• Björn Metzinger : Automatische E-Mayl Beantwortung. Theoretische Grundlagen und Aspekte praktischer Anwendung (PDF, 1 MB) [May 2002, German]
• Mirjam Oberholzer : Terminologische Definitionen: Form, Funktion, Extraktion (PDF, 294 KB) [May 2002, German]
• Stefan Höfler : Link2Tree: A Dependency-Constituency Converter. (PDF, 818 KB) [April 2002, English]
• Esther Kaufmann : Das Indexieren von natürlichsprachlichen Dokumenten und die inverse Seitenhäufigkeit (PDF, 653 KB) [October 2001, German]
• Angela Niederbäumer : German Terminology of Banking: Linguistic Methods of Description and Implementation of a Program for Term Extraction (PDF, 485 KB) [November 2000, English]
• Simon Clematide : Ellipsenbehandlung im UIS (PDF, 235 KB) [December 1998, German]
• Gerold Schneider : A Linguistic Comparison of Constituency, Dependency and Link Grammar (PDF, 885 KB) [June 1998, English]

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Choose your preferred specialization and develop your individual study profile.

We offer five different programs:

Information Systems combines methods from the spheres of both informatics and business administration, allowing you to take a holistic, comprehensive approach toward solving the problems that companies face. You learn to analyze non-standard problems and to actively shape complex information flows in companies. You understand how to creatively develop information systems and applications.

Software Systems focuses on the software development aspects of informatics, centering around systematic and economic criteria. You learn how to independently develop ambitious apps and highly complex systems.

People-Oriented Computing deals with the human-centered design of information technology. User-friendliness, security, and cultural and ethical aspects are of core importance. You create interactive systems and visualize information.

Artificial Intelligence is one of todayʼs most important areas in Informatics. From smart assistants on your phone to autonomous cars – without A.I., modern life would be difficult to imagine. In this study program you learn both the foundations as well as advanced skills of artificial intelligence.

Computing and Economics focuses on the analysis and the design of electronic markets, social networks, and online platforms. You learn to creatively balance the information flow between providers and users. You independently design efficient online auctions and develop solutions to prevent manipulations.

Data Science provides a future-proof education. Big Data is one of the great challenges in our data-driven economy and society. You learn to analyze large data sets, recognize patterns, show correlations, and prepare results in a professional, interactive manner. Thus you lay the foundations for strategic and operative decisions.

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Informatics minor

Studying Informatics is a good complement to almost any major subject and gives you excellent chances on the job market.

On the Master’s level, depending on your Major study program (home faculty), Data Science , Informatics , or Information Systems are available as Minor study programs.

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In your Major study program you earn 90 ECTS credits, which includes 30 ECTS credits for the MSc Thesis. The MSc Thesis is the culmination of your studies. You can freely select the Minor study program to complement your Major in Informatics. In the Minor study program you earn 30 ECTS credits.

The 2nd and 3rd semester of your MSc program is especially suitable for an exchange semester. Upon agreement by the supervising professor it is even possible to write your MSc Thesis abroad.

The Master's program is structures such that it can be completed within two years of full-time studying. It is in principle possible to study part-time while working up to 20%. We recommend against studying part-time while working 50% during the lecture period. The Master's program has to be completed within 5 years.

Background knowledge

We expect a university BSc degree with focus on Informatics. People who had finished their first studies several years ago are also welcome. Good English skills are important, as most courses on the Master's level are offered in English, only some are held in German. Part of the literature is available only in English.

On the Master's level you have a lot of freedom, so you need good self-management skills to organize your individual study path.

After studying

With a Master of Science in Informatics you receive an advanced scientific education. You gain autonomous, scientific, and project-oriented working skills. With an MSc in Informatics you have excellent job opportunities and can take over leading positions. In addition you are qualified to begin a PhD.

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