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The analysis of Canada's health through social media using machine learning
(2019)Real-time online data processing is quickly becoming an essential tool in the analysis of social media for political trends, advertising, public health awareness programs and policy making. Traditionally, processes ... -
The artificial facilitator: guiding participants in developing causal maps using voice-activated personal assistant
(2019)When it comes to any problem, their causes, and solutions, people often have very different perspectives, primarily due to the environment in which they were raised (culture, education, socio-economic status, and so ... -
Design, development and usability evaluation of social system interface and development of computational model
(2021)In recent times, methods of computational intelligence (CI) that aim to solve real-life problems are developed by computer science researchers in collaboration with domain experts. There has also been an increased emphasis ... -
Development of a language model and opinion extraction for text analysis of online platforms
(2021)Language models are one of the fundamental components in a wide variety of natural language processing tasks. The proliferation of text data over the last two decades and the developments in the field of deep learning ... -
Development of simulation and machine learning solutions for social issues
(2020)When developing solutions for social issues, it can be difficult to evaluate the impact they may have without a real world implementation. This may not be possible for reasons such as resource, time, and monetary ... -
Exploiting semantic similarity models to automate transfer credit assessment in academic mobility
(2021)Student mobility or academic mobility involves students moving between institutions during their post-secondary education, and one of the challenging tasks in this process is to assess the transfer credits to be offered ... -
Extracting specific text from documents using machine learning algorithms
(2018)Increasing use of Portable Document Format (PDF) files has promoted research in analyzing the files' layout for text extraction purpose. For this reason, it is important to have a system in place to analyze these documents ... -
Fairness, engagement, and discourse analysis in AI-driven social media and healthcare
(2023)This thesis addresses the critical concerns of fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics (FATE) within the context of artificial intelligence (AI) systems applied to social media and healthcare domains. First, a ... -
From social media to expert reports: automatically validating and extending complex conceptual models using machine learning approaches
(2019)Given the importance of developing accurate models of any complex system, the modeling process often seeks to be comprehensive by including experts and community members. While many qualitative modeling processes can ... -
Harnessing generative AI for overcoming labeled data challenges in social media NLP
(2023)With the introduction of Transformers and Large Language Models, the field of NLP has significantly evolved. Generative AI, a prominent transformer-based technology for crafting human-like content, has proven powerful ... -
Identifying variables affecting students' academic performance among engineering students
(2018)An essential consideration for campus administrators and faculty members is that students complete their degree with good academic grades. Being able to predict factors affecting students performance is necessary to help ... -
Medical text simplification: bridging the gap between medical research and public understanding
(2023)Text Simplification is a subdomain of Natural Language Processing that focuses on applying computational techniques to modify the content and structure of the text to make it interpretable while retaining the main idea. ... -
Programming pedagogy in the age of accessible artificial intelligence
(2023)In recent years, new teaching opportunities have emerged as artificial intelligence has gained increasing attention in computational thinking education. However, to design effective pedagogy based on the present research ... -
Quantifying the impact of Twitter activity in political battlegrounds
(2022)It may be challenging to determine the reach of the information, how well it corresponds with the domain design, and how to utilize it as a communication medium when utilizing social media platforms, notably Twitter, to ... -
Semantic similarity between words and sentences using lexical database and word embeddings
(2018)Calculating the semantic similarity between sentences is a long-standing problem in the area of natural language processing. The semantic analysis field has a crucial role to play in the research related to the text ... -
Use of semantic, syntactic and sentiment features to automate essay evaluation
Manual grading of essays by humans is time-consuming and likely to be susceptible to inconsistencies and inaccuracies. Mostly performed within an academic institution, the task at hand is to grade hundreds of submitted ... -
Using homophily to analyze and develop link prediction models with deep learning framework
(2021)Twitter is a prominent social networking platform where users’ short messages or “tweets” are often used for analysis. However, there has not been much attention paid to mining the medical professions, such as detecting ...