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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
- 2Abdi Oskouie, Mina
- 2Birkbeck, Neil Aylon Charles
- 2Cai, Zhipeng
- 2Chen, Jiyang
- 2Chowdhury, Md Solimul
- 2Chubak, Pirooz
- 83Machine Learning
- 76Reinforcement Learning
- 42Artificial Intelligence
- 37Machine learning
- 24Natural Language Processing
- 23reinforcement learning
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Fall 2009
Answer typing is an important aspect of the question answering process. Most commonly addressed with the use of a fixed set of possible answer classes via question classification, answer typing influences which answers will ultimately be selected as correct. Answer typing introduces the concept...
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Spring 2021
The electrocardiogram is the standard tool for detecting cardiac abnormalities, such as atrial fibrillation, irregular complexes, and heart blocks. However, the interpretation of this data is an unsolved problem with discrepancies among panels of cardiologists and automated analysis requiring...
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Fall 2011
Several research projects explore the application of uncertain databases which contain probabilistic attributes. Uncertainty in data can be caused by inherent randomness, imprecision in measuring equipment, ambiguity, information extraction from unstructured data, etc. The classification and...
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Fall 2012
With the large presence of organizations from different sectors of economy on the web, the problem of detecting which sector a given website belongs to is both important and challenging. We study the problem of classifying websites into four non-topical categories: public, private, non-profit and...
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Clinical Practice Guideline Formalization: Translating Clinical Practice Guidelines to Computer Interpretable Guidelines
DownloadSpring 2016
Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) offer concise instruction on the optimal care for the patient based on the latest clinical findings. The main benefit of a CPG is to improve the quality of care, and the consistency of care. It is been shown that passive dissemination of CPGs, like publishing...
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Fall 2013
Many important problems can be cast as state-space problems. In this dissertation we study a general paradigm for solving state-space problems which we name Cluster-and-Conquer (C&C). Algorithms that follow the C&C paradigm use the concept of equivalent states to reduce the number of states...
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Fall 2018
Identifying the peptide sequence from a mass spectrum is done either by database search or De novo peptide sequencing. This thesis focuses on identification of peptides by using database search, which is a process where an MS/MS spectrum is searched against an entire database of spectra...