Bachelor / Master Theses

Bachelor and Master Theses are offerd within the different research areas of the research group. Potential topics are listed below or are defined together with the prospective students.

Generally, the process is as follows:

• Familiarization with the topic before registration including paration of an exposé : about 1 month
• Registration and initial presentation
• Time to work on the thesis: 4 months (Bachelor), 6 months (Master)
• Submission and final presentation (Bachelor and Master)

Below is a list of open topics. Please get directly in touch with the resepective people. Further topics within the areas of research are possible.

Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten werden aus den verschiedenen Forschungsbereichen des Lehrstuhls angeboten, wobei entweder konkrete Themen ausgeschrieben sind (s.u.) oder zusammen mit der/dem Studierenden definiert werden.

Der Ablauf ist im Allgemeinen wie folgt:

• Einarbeitungszeit vor Anmeldung mit Erstellung des Exposés: ca. 1 Monat
• Anmeldung und Einführungsvortrag
• Bearbeitungszeit: 4 Monate (Bachelor), 6 Monate (Master)
• Abgabe + Abschlussvortrag (Bachelor und Master)

• Entity-based Dialogue Management for Extended Domains (Prof. Ultes)
• User Satisfaction Estimation through Active Learning (Prof. Ultes)
• Joint Reinforecement Learning for User-facing and Application-facing System Actions (Prof. Ultes)
• Augmenting Large Language Models with Conventional Dialogue Management Techniques (Prof. Ultes)
• Constraint Decoding For Natural Language Generation in Dialogue Systems(346.3 KB) (Prof. Ultes)
• Enhancing Controllability in Large Language Models through Dialogue Management(343.0 KB) (N. Wagner)
• Applicability of Reinforcement Learning in Large Language Models (N. Wagner)

• Automatic Extraction of POI Categories and Attributes from Travel Guide Texts(345.3 KB) (Master thesis, ongoing)
• Enhancing Reporting Systems: A Chatbot Approach (Master thesis, external, ongoing)
• Implementation and evaluation of a user support chatbot through RAG in a corporate environment (Master thesis, external, ongoing)
• Implementation and Evaluation of a Voice-Controlled Interface for a Dialog in an Empathy-driven Video Game (Master thesis, completed, 2024)
• Opportunities and Challenges for xAI-based Dialogue Management (Master thesis, completed, 2024)
• Automatic Classification of Customer Tickets in German: A Comparative Study on Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches (Master thesis, external, completed, 2024)
• Semantic Alignment in Knowledge Base Question Answering for Natural Language Processing (Master thesis, completed, 2024)
• User Perception of Dialogue Interaction with Humanoid Robot Pepper Using ChatGPT as Dialogue System (Bachelor, completed, 2024)
• Implementation and Evaluation of the Conversational Entity Dialogue Model for End-to-End User Interaction (Master thesis, completed 2023)