Teaching

At Heidelberg University

• Programmieren II: Fortgeschrittene — Lecture on advanced programming with python.

• *(Trans

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  …)former: Self-Attention Mechanisms* — Seminar on self-attention variants in transformer models.

• Computational Argumentation — Seminar that bridges philosophical argumentation frameworks with NLP argumentation applications
• Meaning Representations: Recent Advances in Parsing and Generation — See title. Term projects of excellent students from my “Meaning Representations”-course resulted in peer-reviewed publications: at IWPT conference and IWCS conference.

At TU Darmstadt

• Co-taught a graduate student project on summary evaluation, resulting in this NAACL publication.

Thesis Supervision

At University of Zurich

• Z. Aftab (BA, 2024): Can Large Language Models make Topic Model-Outputs more meaningful?
• S. Brown (BA, 2024): Ensembling strategies for improving OCR outputs with Large Language Models
• H. Li (MA, 2025) Same or Just Related? Controlled Generation of Adversarial Data for Probing Text Embedding Models. Published as paper at EMNLP 2025, Suzhou, China.
• A. Barukcic (BA, 2025): Evaluating LLM-Based Simplification on Swiss Financial Crime Regulations
• M. Muller (BA, 2025): Extracting Relations Between Personsand Locations in Historical Newspaper Articles
• G. Rocci (BA, 2025): Evaluating Text Embedding Representations Through Paraphrase Detection
• A. Kamaraj (MA, 2025): Distilling Interpretable Topics into Black-Box Text Embedding Models