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Text Document Topical Recursive Clustering and Automatic Labeling of a Hierarchy of Document Clusters
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The overwhelming amount of textual documents currently available highlights the need for information organization and discovery. Effectively organizing documents into a hierarchy of topics and subtopics makes it easier for users to browse the documents. This thesis borrows community mining...
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Fall 2024
Text-to-SQL conversion, the process of transforming natural language queries into executable SQL commands, stands at the forefront of bridging human linguistic capabilities with the structured logic of databases. This dissertation embarks on a journey to elevate text-to-SQL systems to new...
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Spring 2014
Efficient, unbiased estimation of agent performance is essential for drawing statistically significant conclusions in multi-agent domains with high outcome variance. Naive Monte Carlo estimation is often insufficient, as it can require a prohibitive number of samples, especially when evaluating...
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Fall 2015
Researchers conduct association studies to discover biomarkers in order to gain new biological insight on complex diseases and phenotypes. Although most researchers have intuitions about what defines a biomarker and how to assess the results of an association study, there is neither a formal...
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The challenge of applying machine learning techniques to diagnose schizophrenia using multi-site fMRI data
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One of the main challenges for the use of machine learning techniques in neuroimaging data is the small n, large p problem. Datasets usually contain only a few hundreds of instances (n), each of which is described using hundreds of thousands of features (p). In this dissertation, we explore the...
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Spring 2018
Patients with Type I Diabetes (T1D) must take insulin injections to prevent the serious long term effects of hyperglycemia â high blood glucose (BG). These patients must also be careful not to inject too much insulin because this could induce hypoglycemia (low BG), which can be fatal. Patients...