Rello, Luz (Date of defense: 2014-06-27)
Worldwide, 10% of the population has dyslexia, a cognitive disability that reduces readability and comprehension of written information. The goal of this thesis is to make text more accessible for people ...
Barbieri, Francesco (Date of defense: 2018-01-25)
In this dissertation we propose algorithms for the analysis of social media texts, focusing on two particular aspects: irony and emojis. We propose novel automatic systems, based on machine learning ...
Won, Minz (Date of defense: 2022-07-01)
The explosion of digital music has dramatically changed our music consumption behavior. Massive digital music libraries are now available through streaming platforms. Since the amount of information ...
AbuRa'ed, Ahmed Ghassan Tawfiq (Date of defense: 2020-10-16)
A related work report is a section in a research paper which integrates key information from a list of related scientific papers providing context to the work being presented. Related work reports can ...
Sheang, Kim Cheng (Date of defense: 2023-11-02)
Reading is an essential skill that plays a crucial role in our daily lives. It allows us to access information, gain knowledge, expand our understanding of the world around us, and build the foundation ...
Accuosto, Pablo (Date of defense: 2021-11-26)
Argument mining consists in the automatic identification of argumentative structures in natural language, a task that has been recognized as particularly challenging in the scientific domain. In this ...
Espinosa-Anke, Luis (Date of defense: 2017-07-14)
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the branch of Artificial Intelligence aimed at understanding and generating language as close as possible to a human’s. Today, NLP benefits substantially of large ...