Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Author "Buitelaar, Paul"
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Applying informal health reports and search queries for public health monitoring: An evaluation of characteristics, potentials, and requirements of online self-reporting, discussions, and search behaviour
Marques Barros, Joana Carina (NUI Galway, 2021-01-13)The introduction of digital data sources has positively impacted public health surveillance and has paved the way for novel approaches. Internet-based sources provide large volumes of data which can be analysed in near ... -
Contextualised sentiment analysis in the financial domain
Daudert, Tobias (NUI Galway, 2021-07-02)Sentiments and beliefs play an important role in actions and decisions in a market environment; for example, people disliking a brand will tend to avoid products of it or people aiming to reduce their carbon-dioxide footprint ... -
Domain adaptive extraction of topical hierarchies for Expertise Mining
Bordea, Georgeta (2013-09-11)In this age of pervasive internet access we have become accustomed to rely on web search for our most basic information needs. But complex queries in knowledge-intensive organisations, as well as in the academic environment, ... -
Leveraging Wikipedia-based features for entity relatedness and recommendation
Aggarwal, Nitish (2018-01-31)Entities such as people, locations, organizations play a key role in natural language understanding. Most of the approaches that deal with natural language processing tasks, require a method to measure the relatedness ... -
Machine translation of domain-specific expressions within ontologies and documents
Arcan, Mihael (2017-08-08)Nowadays, most of the semantically structured data have labels stored only in English. Although the increasing number of ontologies offers an excellent opportunity to link this knowledge together, non-English users may ... -
Measuring moments: Annotating and quantifying narrative time disruptions in modernist and hypertext fiction
Kearns, Edward (NUI Galway, 2021-07-30)This project outlines a new method of annotating and quantitatively discussing narrative techniques related to time in fiction. Its principal research questions are, firstly, to determine whether a valid and useful system ... -
Semantic Paths in Business Filings Analysis
O'Riain, Seán (2012-06-18)Supporting competitive business analysis of financial reports through the automated analysis and interpretation of their natural language sections, presents specific challenges including information that can be ambiguous, ... -
Suggestion mining from text
Negi, Sapna (NUI Galway, 2019-02-21)With the ever growing availability of opinions on the web, opinion mining has become a popular area of research in the fields of natural language processing and applied machine learning. We argue that opinion summaries ...