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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Fall 2012
Co-location mining, which focuses on the detection of co-location patterns, is one of the tasks of spatial data mining. A co-location pattern is a set of spatial features frequently located in close proximity of each other. Most previous works are based on transaction-free apriori-like algorithms...
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Fall 2023
Language models are a fundamental component of natural language processing (NLP) systems. Numerous successful deployments of modern artificial intelligence systems are based on language models, including GPT-4 and ChatGPT. In practice, they are often trained with the teacher forcing objective,...
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Fall 2013
Identifying spatial patterns of collisions is critical for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of traffic enforcement deployment and road safety. Recently, many studies have centred on finding locations with high collision concentration, so-called hotspots. However, most of them only focus...
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Fall 2016
Mohomed Jabbar, Mohomed Shazan
Co-location pattern mining is a class of techniques to find associations among spatial features. It has a wide range of applications varying from business to science. Our work is motivated by an application in environmental health where the goal is to investigate whether the maternal exposure...
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Spring 2021
Vector representations of text are heavily used in state of the art NLP tasks, however they require significant computing resources to build and use. In this work, we discuss and evaluate DFx, a system for representing vectors in a compressed form without compromising the similarity between those...
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Disinformation, Stochastic Harm, and Costly Effort: A Principal-Agent Analysis of Regulating Social Media Platforms
DownloadFall 2022
The spread of disinformation on social media platforms is harmful to society. This harm may manifest as a gradual degradation of public discourse; but it can also take the form of sudden dramatic events such as the 2021 insurrection on Capitol Hill. The social media platforms themselves are in...