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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An Empirical Study on Learning and Improving the Search Objective for Unsupervised Paraphrasing
DownloadSpring 2022
Research in unsupervised text generation has been gaining attention over the years. One recent approach is local search towards a heuristically defined objective, which specifies language fluency, semantic meanings, and other task-specific attributes. Search in the sentence space is realized by...
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Spring 2024
Visual object detection predicts the categories of objects in an image and estimates bounding boxes that can wrap those objects accurately, playing a crucial role in many vision-based AI systems like autonomous cars, robotics, and smart monitoring. Although achieving significant progress, even...
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Spring 2020
Blasting is widely used in mining operations as the primary comminution process to reduce the in-situ rock into fragmented material suitable for the subsequent transport and processing. The energy used is released from an explosive by detonation and transferred to the rock mass via a shock front...
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Spring 2012
Medium access in applications of wireless sensor networks is often uncoordinated while sensor nodes communicate bursty flows of data. Therefore random-access packet-based communication schemes are suitable for such networks. Preamble detection is an important task in packet-based communication...
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Spring 2013
The game of Amazons is a young board game with simple rules, nice mathematical properties yet a high complexity between chess and Go. The state of the art Amazons solver was presented by Martin Müller in 2001 with which he solved the Amazons 5 × 5 starting position as a first player win. This...