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 2017
Cognates are words in related languages that have originated from the same word in an ancestor language, such as the English/German word pair father/Vater. Cognate information is critical in the field of historical linguistics, where it is used to determine the relationships between languages and...
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Identifying negative language transfer in learner writing: using syntactic information to model structural differences
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Second language learners transfer rules from their native languages when trying to communicate in the new language. When the transferred rules do not match the second language grammar, this reuse results in errors. Although this phenomenon is well known and documented by linguists and language...
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Identifying Negative Language Transfer in the English Writing of Chinese and Farsi Native Speakers
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Effective communication in English can facilitate educational and employment opportunities for second-language learners. English as a second or foreign language (ESOL) learners tend to employ rules from their native language while communicating in English, which can lead to Negative Language...
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Fall 2011
Today, we are witnessing the proliferation of digital media, whether through mass digitization efforts, or through the publishing activities of the multitude of social-platform users. Much of this data is not the product of formal work'', but rather the product of artistic and social activity and...