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  • Comparison of the Longevities of Roman and Modern Construction Projects

    Creator:
    Taylor, David D.
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    Throughout Europe, Northern Africa, and the Near East, hundreds of Roman ruins lie scattered about. Many Roman aqueducts, bridges, roads, and even buildings remain standing over two thousand years after their construction, as functional as the day they were built. In the modern United States, however, many public works projects...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Projects . Abstract approved: Richard H. Cuenca Throughout Europe, Northern Africa, and the Near East

  • Relational Learning over Dirty Data Using Data Constraints

    Creator:
    Lee, Ga Young
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    Real-world datasets are dirty and contain many errors. Examples of these issues are violations of integrity constraints, duplicates, and inconsistencies in representing data values and entities. Applying machine learning on dirty databases may lead to inaccurate results. Users have to spend a lot of time and effort repairing data errors...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Staying Consistent: Discipline-Specific Language Used in Introductory CS Curricula

    Creator:
    Weber, Jason
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    The understanding of Discipline-Specific Language is an important competency for students of any field to begin mastering early in their studies, since it serves as a prerequisite for both the analysis of expert text and precise communication. Therefore, an introductory curriculum should pay careful attention to how it incorporates, defines,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    other committee members, Devlin Montfort, Mike Bailey, and John Bolte for their grace and kindness

  • Adversarial Attacks in Natural Language Question-Answering

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    Rahurkar, Prachi S.
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    Question Answering in natural language processing has achieved significant progress in recent years. Yet, training and testing set methodology to evaluate the language models has proved inadequate. Adversarial examples aid us in finding loopholes inside these models and provide insights into their inner workings. In this work, an evaluation based...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Pennington, Richard Socher, and Christopher D. Manning. Glove: Global vectors for word representation. In

  • A domain-specific embedded language for probabilistic programming

    Creator:
    Kollmansberger, Steven
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    Functional programming is concerned with referential transparency, that is, given a certain function and its parameter, that the result will always be the same. However, it seems that this is violated in applications involving uncertainty, such as rolling a dice. This thesis defines the background of probabilistic programming and domain-specific...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , Brent and John. Of course, I wouldn’t even be in graduate school if it wasn’t for Susan Mabry, who

  • Fine-Grained Object Recognition Under Limited Training Data

    Creator:
    Lam, Michael Q.
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    This dissertation addresses object recognition in challenging settings, where distinct object classes are visually very similar (e.g., species of birds and insects) and/or access to training examples of object classes is limited (e.g., due to the associated high costs of data annotation). In this dissertation, we present a variety of...
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    Dissertation

  • Simulator-Defined MDP Planning with Applications in Natural Resource Management

    Creator:
    Alkaee Taleghan, Majid
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    This work is inspired by problems in natural resource management centered on the challenge of invasive species. Computing optimal management policies for maintaining ecosystem sustainable is challenging. Many ecosystem management problems can be formulated as MDP (Markov Decision Process) planning problems. In a simulator-defined MDP, the Markovian dynamics and rewards...
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    Dissertation
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    Hutchinson, and John Dilles, for their constructive comments on my research. I would like to acknowledge all

  • Machine learning methods for public policy : simulation, optimization, and visualization

    Creator:
    McGregor, Sean
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    Society faces many complex management problems, particularly in the area of shared public resources such as ecosystems. Existing decision making processes are often guided by personal experience and political ideology rather than state-of-the-art scientific understanding. This dissertation envisions a future in which multiple stakeholders are provided with computational tools for...
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    Dissertation
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    , Ronald Metoyer, Prasad Tadepalli, Margaret Burnett, and John Bolte for the time and effort they

  • Incorporating User Feedback into Machine Learning Systems

    Creator:
    Das, Shubhomoy
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    Although machine learning systems are often effective in real-world applications, there are situations in which they can be even better when provided with some degree of end user feedback. This is especially true when the machine learning system needs to customize itself to the end user's preferences, such as in...
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    Dissertation
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    systems. I am grateful that Dr. John Dilles volunteered to serve as the Graduate Council Representative

  • Multiple Instance Multiple Label Learning with Limited Supervision

    Creator:
    Nguyen, Tam
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    In weak supervision learning, label information can be provided at different levels of granularity. For example, in multi-instance multi-label learning, samples are organized into bags and labels for each class are provided at the bag level. For small datasets, this approach offers means of reducing the labeling efforts. However, in...
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    Dissertation
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    PhD committee members: Dr. Thinh Nguyen, Dr. Jinsub Kim and Dr. John Bolte providing favorable