Browsing University of Waterloo by Subject "text mining"
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Application of Textual Feature Extraction to Corporate Bankruptcy Risk Assessment
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-21)The inception of the Internet in the late twentieth century has established the ability to generate a huge volume of data from multitudinous sources in a very short period of time. However, most of this data is presented ... -
Concept Mining: A Conceptual Understanding based Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-21)Due to the daily rapid growth of the information, there are considerable needs to extract and discover valuable knowledge from data sources such as the World Wide Web. Most of the common techniques in text mining are ... -
Exploring the Utility of Patient Stories on Social Media for Healthcare Quality Improvement
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-03)This thesis explores the phenomenon of patient stories on social media. This phenomenon represents the intersection of two phenomena: patient experience and social media. Healthcare experience refers to the interactions ... -
Gender Differences in Engineering: A Data-Driven Study
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-27)The gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) is well known. Not only do fewer women apply to and earn engineering degrees, but also more women leave engineering programs and careers. Past ... -
Job description mining to understand undergraduate co-operative placements
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-05)Co-operative education has become popular worldwide. In this thesis, we use a text mining methodology to analyze over 17,000 co-op job postings in order to understand the co-op market in a large post-secondary institution. ...