Project Seminar: Learning in Interaction
MSc project module on post-training LLMs from dialogue-game feedback using DPO, PPO, GRPO and SFT with the Playpen framework.
Teaching
Summer 2026
Formal Languages and Automata
Automata, the Chomsky hierarchy, the Pumping Lemma and Turing machines.
Winter 2025/26
Programming 2
BSc course on programming fundamentals: object-oriented design, documentation and code review, and data structures.
Current Highlights in NLP
MSc seminar on recent developments in NLP, run as a role-playing paper-reading seminar.
Summer 2025
Project Seminar: Evaluating Chat-Optimized Language Models
MSc project module adapting an existing game to the clembench framework in order to evaluate chat-optimized LLMs.
Formal Languages and Automata
Automata, the Chomsky hierarchy, the Pumping Lemma and Turing machines.
Winter 2024/25
Programming 1
BSc course on programming fundamentals: object-oriented design and data structures.
Current Highlights in NLP
MSc seminar on recent developments in NLP, run as a role-playing paper-reading seminar.
Summer 2024
Project Seminar: Evaluating Chat-Optimized Language Models
MSc project module adapting an existing game to the clembench framework in order to evaluate chat-optimized LLMs.
Formal Languages and Automata
Automata, the Chomsky hierarchy, the Pumping Lemma and Turing machines.
Winter 2023/24
Methods in Natural Language Processing
BSc seminar on methods used across NLP, run as a role-playing paper-reading seminar.
Current Highlights in NLP
MSc seminar on recent developments in NLP, run as a role-playing paper-reading seminar.
Summer 2023
Project Seminar: Models That Explain Themselves
MSc project module implementing model architectures that can explain their own predictions, applied to joint image-text tasks.
Formal Languages and Automata
Automata, the Chomsky hierarchy, the Pumping Lemma and Turing machines.
Winter 2022/23
Advanced Natural Language Processing
MSc lecture covering text classification, neural language models, syntactic and semantic parsing, and ethics.
Current Highlights in NLP
MSc seminar on recent developments in NLP, run as a role-playing paper-reading seminar.
Summer 2020
Proseminar Visual Analytics
Introduction to visual analytics and computational multimodal systems; each student presents a publication and writes a technical report.
Summer 2018
Statistical Natural Language Processing
Building scalable text-processing systems with statistical methods, integrating recent research results into the students’ own solutions. Taught over 8 semesters, 2014-2018.
Information Extraction from Web Tables
Project course on table understanding: implementing extraction tasks over real web tables, extending a knowledge base, and evaluating the results.