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Detection of Claims and Supporting Evidence in Wikipedia Articles on Controversial Topics
(2017-05)
This thesis presents the task of argument mining, finding arguments within natural language texts, and reports on experiments combining techniques previously applied in disparate but related domains to the tasks of detecting ...
Driver Behavior and Environment Interaction Modeling for Intelligent Vehicle Advancements
(2018-05)
With continued progress in artificial intelligence, vehicle technologies have advanced significantly from human controlled driving towards fully automated driving. During the transition, the intelligent vehicle should be ...
Noise-Robust Speech Source Localization and Tracking Using Microphone Arrays for Smartphone-Assisted Hearing Aid Devices
(2018-05)
Speech Source Localization (SSL) (or Direction of Arrival estimation) is a powerful pre-processing tool that helps identify the direction of the talker of interest in a noisy environment using multiple fixed microphones ...
Novel Class Detection and Cross-Lingual Duplicate Detection over Online Data Stream
(2018-05)
Data streams are continuous flows of data points. They are very common now-a-days in several domains such as e-commerce, education, health, security, and social networks. Their sheer volume and throughput speed pose a great ...
An Answer Set Programming Based Approach to Representing and Querying Textual Knowledge
(2018-05)
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a field of Artificial Intelligence that deals
with converting information into knowledge in a form that the computer can process. It applies
concepts from the field of ...
Medical Question Answering and Patient Cohort Retrieval
(2018-05)
With the advent of the electronic health record (EHR), there has been an explosion of rich medical information available for automatic and manual analyses. While the majority of current medical informatics research focuses ...
Comparative Text Analysis on a Classification Task of Political Fake Statement Detection
(2018-08)
Automatic fake news detection is a very challenging problem especially in a fraud/deception
detection and it has significant real-world political and social impact. During the 2016 US
Presidential Election, the world saw ...
Thesis Statement Annotation and Identification in Student Essays
(2019-05)
Automatic essay scoring (AES) is the task of using computer technology to evaluate the
quality of written essays and give feedback. AES systems are one of the most important
educational applications of natural language ...
Automated Essay Scoring: Argument Persuasiveness
(2019-05)
Despite being investigated for over 50 years, the task of Automated Essay Scoring (AES) is far
from being solved. Nevertheless, it continues to draw a lot of attention in the natural language
processing community in part ...
A Pipeline-Based Task-Oriented Dialogue System on DSTC2 Dataset
(2019-05)
Dialogue systems have attracted a lot of attention since some conversational products like
Google Assistant and Amazon Echo smart speaker have achieved big successes recently. In
this work, we try to build a pipeline-based ...