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Unsupervised entity linking using graph-based semantic similarity

Naderi, Ali M. (Date of defense: 2016-02-10)

Nowadays, the human textual data constitutes a great proportion of the shared information resources such as World Wide Web (WWW). Social networks, news and learning resources as well as Knowledge Bases (KBs) are just the ...

Using natural language processing for question answering in closed and open domains

Latifi, Majid (Date of defense: 2018-05-25)

With regard to the growth in the amount of social, environmental, and biomedical information available digitally, there is a growing need for Question Answering (QA) systems that can empower users to master this new wealth ...

Visualization and interpretability in probabilistic dimensionality reduction models

Tosi, Alessandra (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)

Over the last few decades, data analysis has swiftly evolved from being a task addressed mainly within the remit of multivariate statistics, to an endevour in which data heterogeneity, complexity and even sheer size, driven ...

Walking with virtual humans : understanding human response to virtual humanoids' appearance and behaviour while navigating in immersive VR

Ríos Jerez, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-02-17)

In this thesis, we present a set of studies whose results have allowed us to analyze how to improve the realism, navigation, and behaviour of the avatars in an immersive virtual reality environment. In our simulations, ...