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Fall 2014

Wang, Haiming

In the face of an overwhelmingly information intensive Internet, searching has become the most important way to locate information efficiently. Current searching techniques are able to retrieve relevant data, however, personalization techniques are still needed to better identify different user...

Fall 2015

Yadollahi, Ali

Polarity classification in text is the problem of automatically detecting the general opinion of textual data. Analyzing the general opinion toward a topic of interest is important for different audiences, such as companies, politicians or even regular users. On the other hand, the availability of...

Fall 2009

Bostan, Babak

Understanding biochemical reactions inside cells of individual organisms is a key factor for improving our biological knowledge. Signaling pathways provide a road map for a wide range of these chemical reactions that convert one signal or stimulus into another. In general, each signaling pathway...

2021-10-01

Pouria Ramazi, Mélodie Kunegel-Lion, Russell Greiner, Mark A. Lewis

Planning forest management relies on predicting insect outbreaks such as mountain pine beetle, particularly in the intermediate‐term future, e.g., 5‐year. Machine‐learning algorithms are potential solutions to this challenging problem due to their many successes across a variety of prediction...

2003

Greiner, Russell, Wishart, David, Eisner, Roman, Lu, Z., Lu, Paul, Macdonell, Cam, Poulin, B., Szafron, Duane, Anvik, J.

Technical report TR03-14. Identifying the destination or localization of proteins is key to understanding their function and facilitating their purification. A number of existing computational prediction methods are based on sequence analysis. However, these methods are limited in scope, accuracy...

Fall 2009

Heydari, Maysam

This thesis addresses the challenge of prognosis, in terms of survival prediction, for patients with Glioblastoma Multiforme brain tumors. Glioblastoma is the most malignant brain tumor, which has a median survival time of no more than a year. Accurate assessment of prognostic factors is critical...

Fall 2017

Wong, Kai On

Applications using big data and machine learning techniques are transforming how people live in the 21st century, however they are generally underutilized in public health compared to other domains. We proposed and conducted two independent studies to investigate how big data and machine learning...

Fall 2018

Lewandowski, Alex

Gaussian processes are flexible probabilistic models for regression and classification. However, their success hinges on a well-specified kernel that can capture the structure of data. For complex data, the task of hand crafting a kernel becomes daunting. In this thesis, we propose new methods...

Spring 2015

White, Martha

This dissertation explores regularized factor models as a simple unification of machine learn- ing problems, with a focus on algorithmic development within this known formalism. The main contributions are (1) the development of generic, efficient algorithms for a subclass of regularized...

1988

Schuurmans, Dale Eric.