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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
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Fall 2013
As the size of the World Wide Web and the type of documents it holds grow, the need for tools helping users to find their required information becomes more increasingly important. There are several ways to summarize, navigate through or retrieve documents on the web, such as query-based search...
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Fall 2024
Table reasoning is a challenging task that requires understanding both natural language questions and structured tabular data. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in natural language understanding and generation, they often struggle with large tables due to their...
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Spring 2022
Named Entity Disambiguation (NED) and linking has been traditionally evaluated on natural language content that is both well-written and contextually rich. However, many NED approaches display poor performance on text sources that are short and noisy. In this thesis, we study the problem of...
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Fall 2018
With rapidly increasing user-generated geo-tagged content in social media, location-based queries have received more attention lately. There has been extensive work on finding top-K frequent terms in specific locations from social network data streams. However, the problem reverse spatial term...