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Natural Language Processing for Low-resourced Code-switched Colloquial Languages – The Case of Algerian Language
(2020-06-09)
In this thesis we explore to what extent deep neural networks (DNNs), trained end-to-end, can be used to perform natural language processing tasks for code-switched colloquial languages lacking both large automated data ...
Why the pond is not outside the frog? Grounding in contextual representations by neural language models
(2020-05-05)
In this thesis, to build a multi-modal system for language generation and understanding, we study grounded neural language models.
Literature in psychology informs us that spatial cognition involves different aspects of ...
Explorations of the Relationship Between the right to Make Decisions and Moral Responsibility in Healthcare
(2020-11-18)
People intuitively think that there is a strong connection between having a
right to make decisions and to be morally responsible for those decisions.
This thesis explores the relationship between these notions in the ...
Giving Executives Their Due: Just Pay, Desert, and Equality
(2021-11-19)
Before, during, and after the global financial crisis of 2008, executive pay practices were widely debated and criticized. Economists, philosophers, as well as the man on the street all seem to have strong feelings towards ...
Peerage and Judgment: How transdisciplinary collaborations recognize contributions without a consensus of meaning
(2022-12-07)
This thesis concerns judgments of quality and belonging in transdisciplinary research (TD). TD includes academics from various disciplines and is open to participation from non-academics. It typically aims to address ...
Weapons of Mass Destruction: Financial Crises from a Philosophical Perspective
(2022-11-09)
Financial crises are severely destructive events. The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 sent sovereign states into a spiral of political unrest and caused millions of people to lose their homes, their jobs, their life savings, ...
Studies in Language Structure using Deep Learning
(2023-08-15)
This thesis deals with the discovery, prediction, and utilization of structural patterns in language using deep learning techniques. The thesis is divided into two sections. The first section gives an introduction to the ...
Resources and Applications for Dialectal Arabic: the Case of Levantine
(2022-05-03)
This is a thesis about the computational study of Dialectal Arabic (DA). In particular, the thesis studies DA, with a special emphasis on Levantine Arabic, and develops tools and resources for the computational study of ...
Confluence and Divergence of Emancipatory Healthcare Ideals and Psychiatric Contextual Challenges
(2022-05-09)
Person-centered care (PCC) is generally understood to involve shaping healthcare processes, decisions, and plans according to the individual values, preferences, or goals of each patient. This is in contrast to more ...
Semantic change in interaction: Studies on the dynamics of lexical meaning
(2023-03-28)
This compilation thesis investigates how word meanings change. In particular, it's concerned semantic change at the levels of interaction and the speech community. To this end, the compiled studies employ methods from both ...