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+# Analysing and Mitigating Origin Bias in German Word Embeddings
+
+- Bachelor's thesis
+- Author: Aileen Reichelt
+- Supervision: Prof. Dr. Katja Markert
+- Heidelberg University, Institute of Computational Linguistics
+- Submitted January 23, 2024