Browsing Theses by Supervisor "Schonlau, Matthias"

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exKidneyBERT: A Language Model for Kidney Transplant Pathology Reports and the Crucial Role of Extended Vocabularies

Yang, Tiancheng (University of Waterloo, 2022-09-30)

Background: Pathology reports contain key information about the patient’s diagno- sis as well as important gross and microscopic findings. These information-rich clinical reports offer an invaluable resource for clinical ...
Learning From Almost No Data

Sucholutsky, Ilia (University of Waterloo, 2021-06-15)

The tremendous recent growth in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning has largely been tied to the availability of big data and massive amounts of compute. The increasingly popular approach of training ...
On the Automatic Coding of Text Answers to Open-ended Questions in Surveys

He, Zhoushanyue (University of Waterloo, 2021-01-13)

Open-ended questions allow participants to answer survey questions without any constraint. Responses to open-ended questions, however, are more difficult to analyze quantitatively than close-ended questions. In this thesis, ...
Statistical Learning Approaches to Some Classification Problems

Gweon, Hyukjun (University of Waterloo, 2017-08-01)

Classification is essential in statistical learning. This thesis deals with three topics in classification: multi-label classification, nonparametric multi-class classification and a special type of text categorization ...