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Author:

Srinath, Mukund

Title:

Convolutional Neural Network and Question Generation Based Approaches to Select Best Answers for Non-Factoid Questions

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

answer selection
question generation
NLP

File:

Download Answer_Selection_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Goist, Mitchell

Title:

The Radical Right in Parliament: A new method and application for studying political text in multiple languages

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

NLP
word embeddings
radical right
European politics
parliamentary competiion

File:

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Committee Members:

Burt Monroe, III, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Burt Monroe, III, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bruce A Desmarais, Jr., Committee Member
Matthew Richard Golder, Committee Member
Sarah Michele Rajtmajer, Outside Member
Glenn Hunter Palmer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

George, Haruka

Title:

Adaptable Conversational Chatbot Based on Reinforcement Learning

Graduate Program:

Data Analytics (MS)

Keywords:

Reinforcement Learning
Chatbot
Seq2seq
LSTM
Deep Reinforcement Learning
NLP

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Committee Members:

Raghu Sangwan, Program Head/Chair
Youakim Badr, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adrian Sorin Barb, Committee Member

Author:

Chaudhary, Namrata

Title:

Evaluating the alignment of privacy policies to NIST cybersecurity framework using Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning

Graduate Program:

Data Analytics

Keywords:

Natural language processing
NLP
IoT Privacy Policy
NIST cybersecurity framework
BERT
ELMo
Word2Vec
Doc2Vec
text similarity
Privacy policy gaps

File:

Download Thesis_Dissertation__nmc5751_psu.edu__final.pdf

Committee Members:

Adrian Sorin Barb, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nil Hande Ergin, Committee Member
Guanghua Qiu, Committee Member
Colin Neill, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Muluka, Arun Teja

Title:

Continuous Sign Language Recognition

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

SIGNUM
Sign Language
Openpose
NLP
Dee

File:

Download myThesis2021_7_8.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahanth Gowda, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kulkarni, Amol

Title:

Modular Data-Driven Framework for Sensor Selection in Complex Systems

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Sensor Selection
NLP
Fault Identification
Clustering
Unsupervised Machine Learning
Topic Modeling
Fuzzy Clustering
Ordered Clustering

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Committee Members:

Saurabh Basu, Major Field Member
Hui Yang, Major Field Member
Vittaldas Prabhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Janis Terpenny, Special Member
Chris Rahn, Outside Unit & Field Member
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Joshi, Deeksha

Title:

Transformer based semi-supervised learning for misinformation classification

Graduate Program:

Data Analytics (MS)

Keywords:

Machine learning
Transformers
NLP
Semi-supervised learning
Label Propagation
Label Spreading
DistillBERT
Misinformation Classification

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Committee Members:

Raghu Sangwan, Program Head/Chair
Youakim Badr, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adrian Sorin Barb, Committee Member

Author:

Mathew, Vinay Saji

Title:

Unsupervised Embeddings and LLMs Based Methodology for Hypothesis Generation In Biomechanics

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

NLP
Biomechanics
LLMs
Word2Vec
Hypothesis Generation

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Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Butler, Committee Member
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Zhaohui

Title:

Automated and Semi-Automated Assessment of STEM Reasoning Questions

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Automated Assessment
Machine Learning
Selective PredictionHuman-in-the-Loop
NLP
Education
Relation Networks
Contrastive Learning
Human-in-the-Loop
Selective Prediction

File:

Download ZhaohuiLI_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Dongwon Lee, Outside Unit & Field Member
Huijuan Xu, Major Field Member
Rui Zhang, Major Field Member
Rebecca Passonneau, Chair & Dissertation Advisor