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Spring 2021

Reynard, Darcy C

In Canada, federal and provincial governments have implemented carbon pricing to reduce carbon emissions. One effect of a price on carbon is increasing the cost of using private vehicles, which may reduce mobility and increase the risk of social exclusion, especially where car dependence is high....

2021-04-16

Avalloni de Morais, Rene

Call Centers or Support Centers in different companies aggregate huge amount of audio data everyday. From all the conversations, few conversations demonstrate the disappointment of clients towards services, products or delivery. Finding the sentiment of the customer helps in determining whether...

Fall 2021

Farias Wanderley, Leticia

Second language learners transfer rules from their native languages when trying to communicate in the new language. When the transferred rules do not match the second language grammar, this reuse results in errors. Although this phenomenon is well known and documented by linguists and language...

2021-04-16

Cheruiyot, Victor

Software testing is a quality control activity which focuses on detecting defects which are then eventually removed. After completion of coding software products are subjected to system testing with the help of different test cases. These tests are essential and necessary to assess the...

Fall 2019

Ni, Weite

Question answering (QA) is the task of automatically finding answers to natural language questions. A QA system requires access to some form of knowledge in order to find the answers. Most QA tasks use raw text corpora or structured knowledge bases as knowledge. However, raw text corpora,...

Spring 2020

Liu, Bang

Natural Language Processing (NLP) and understanding aims to read from unformatted text to accomplish different tasks. As a first step, it is necessary to represent text as a simplified model. Traditionally, Vector Space Model (VSM) is most commonly used, in which text is represented as a bag of...

Fall 2018

Guo, Zhaochen

Knowledge bases (KBs), repositories consisting of entities, facts about entities, and relations between entities, are a vital component for many tasks in artificial intelligence and natural language processing such as semantic search and question answering. Named Entity Disambiguation (NED), the...