Pascal Andermatt

Research

Projects and publications โ€” mostly artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language processing, built during my time at the University of Zurich | UZH.

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

โ€” Steve Jobs

Projects & News

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Informfully. Open-source news platform for user studies โ€” designed and built the landing page.

Open SourceWeb DevelopmentVitePress
Jul 2025
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RareSim. Shortening the diagnostic odyssey with intelligent phenotype-based reasoning.

ResearchAIRare Diseases
Mar 2025
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Orphapacket Data Importer. Bring Orphanet's rare-disease data into PostgreSQL with one command.

Open SourceRare DiseasesPython
Jan 2025
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Publications Widget. Embed your Zotero publication list on any website.

Open SourceVue.jsZotero
Sep 2024
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Scientific Text Simplification Using Multi-prompt Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding. Summary of our submission to the SimpleText lab at CLEF 2023, awarded Best of Labs.

Text SimplificationSimpleText @ CLEF-2023Best of Labs in CLEF 2023
Sep 2024
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Multi-Prompt Minimum Bayes Risk with Diverse Prompts. Explores the effectiveness of Multi-Prompt Minimum Bayes Risk re-ranking in improving text simplifications generated by Llama 3, benchmarked against human judgments.

Text SimplificationSimpleText @ CLEF 2024
Sep 2024
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Wine Captain. Your AI-powered wine companion โ€” never pick the wrong wine again.

HackathonBรคrnHรคckt 2024AI3rd Place
Aug 2024
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Presentation Writer. Highlight slides with hand gestures, powered by computer vision.

Computer VisionPython
May 2024
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Multilingual Question Generation from Knowledge Graphs. Generate complex, multilingual, high-quality questions from any knowledge base.

Master ThesisNLPKnowledge GraphsGrade 5.75 / 6
Feb 2024
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Universal Turing Machine Emulator. Verify and emulate any Turing Machine encoded as a binary string.

Theory of ComputationWeb Development
Feb 2024
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Alpaca LoRA 7B and LENS Model Selection for Scientific Literature Simplification. Exploring the integration of Alpaca LoRA 7B and LENS models to improve clarity and accessibility in complex academic texts.

Text SimplificationSimpleText @ CLEF 2023Best of Labs in CLEF 2023
Sep 2023
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Approximate Convex Hulls. Approximating convex hulls in high dimensions โ€” and using them to accelerate SVM training.

ResearchAlgorithmsC++Grade 5.75 / 6
Jul 2023
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Hatey Bot. Detecting different types of hate speech with machine learning.

NLPMachine LearningGrade 6.0 / 6
Oct 2022
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KenSpace. Exploratory and complex search across unstructured documents.

Bachelor ThesisInformation RetrievalGrade 6.0 / 6
Jun 2020

Previous Projects

Projects I still have a soft spot for, going back to 2014. Some have aged better than others.

Archived Projects21 projects since 2014Hydranauts, a multiplayer spaceship gameBachelor ProjectsZHAW, 2017โ€“2020Walky, a pedestrian simulatorCollege ProjectsKBW & Renuo, 2014โ€“2017