Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 2Abdi Oskouie, Mina
- 2Birkbeck, Neil Aylon Charles
- 2Cai, Zhipeng
- 2Chen, Jiyang
- 2Chowdhury, Md Solimul
- 2Chubak, Pirooz
- 74Machine Learning
- 70Reinforcement Learning
- 41Artificial Intelligence
- 36Machine learning
- 22Natural Language Processing
- 22Reinforcement learning
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Probing the Robustness of Pre-trained Language Models for Structured and Unstructured Entity Matching
DownloadSpring 2023
The paradigm of fine-tuning Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) has been successful in Entity Matching (EM). Many contemporary works leverage PLM-based models to push the state of the results. However, using the power of transformer-based models has some downsides in this task. Despite their...
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Fall 2023
Product Entity Matching (PEM) is a challenging subfield of record linkage that involves linking records referring to the same real-world product. Despite recent transformer models showing near-perfect performance scores on various datasets, they struggle the most when dealing with PEM datasets....
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Fall 2009
This thesis addresses the challenge of prognosis, in terms of survival prediction, for patients with Glioblastoma Multiforme brain tumors. Glioblastoma is the most malignant brain tumor, which has a median survival time of no more than a year. Accurate assessment of prognostic factors is critical...
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Fall 2018
Heterogeneous computing is becoming increasingly common in high-end computer systems, with vendors often including compute accelerators such as Graphics Processing Units~(GPUs) and Field-Programmable Gate Arrays~(FPGAs) for increased throughput and power efficiency. This thesis addresses the...
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Spring 2023
Recent advancements in large language models and program synthesis have enabled the development of powerful programming assistance tools. These tools are designed to help the programmer while writing a program in an online setting. In this thesis we introduce a programming assistant that can...
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Spring 2023
Cost-guided bottom-up search (BUS) algorithms use a cost function to guide the search for solving program synthesis tasks. In this thesis, we show that current state-of-the-art cost-guided BUS algorithms suffer from a common problem: they can lose useful information given by the model and fail to...
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Spring 2024
Text attribute transfer (TAT) is a natural language processing task that involves transforming some attributes of a given text while preserving other attributes. Recently, prompting approaches have been explored in TAT with the emergence of various pretrained language models (PLMs), where a...