PhD Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Projects Supervised by Ted Pedersen

2023

• The Impact of the Pre-Training Objective on the Performance of Large Language Models on Downstream Tasks (Akrah) - Master of Science Project, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, October 2023.

2022

• Annotating and Automatically Extracting Task Descriptions from Shared Task Overview Papers in Natural Language Processing Domains (Martin) - Master of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, May 2022.

2021

• Implementing an LSTM seq2seq Chatbot from the Cornell Movie Database (Daud) - Master of Science Project, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, May 2021.

2020

• Hyperpartisan News Detection using Logistic Regression and Convolutional Neural Networks (Sengupta) - Master of Science Project, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Summer 2020.
  
  
• Language Models for the Interpretation of Puns (Mirza) - Master of Science Project, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, January 2020.

2019

• Language Models for Humor Detection (Yan) - Master of Science Project, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, April 2019.

2018

• Hypernym Discovery over WordNet and English Corpora using Hearst Patterns and Word Embeddings (Vallabhajosyula) - Master of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, July 2018.
  
  
• Text Embedding Methods on Different Levels for Tweet Authorship Attribution (Wang) - Master of Science Project, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Minnesota, Duluth, May, 2018. [co-advised with Yang Li]
  
  

2017

• Language Evolves, so should WordNet - Automatically Extending WordNet with the Senses of Out of Vocabulary Lemmas (Rusert) - Master of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, May, 2017.
  
  

2012

• Extending the Hirst and St-Onge Measure of Semantic Relatedness for the Unified Medical Language System (Choudhari) - Master of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, August, 2012.
  
  

2011

• Random Walk on WordNet to Measure Lexical Semantic Relatedness (Xu) - Master of Science Project, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Minnesota, Duluth, July, 2011. [co-advised with Kang James]
  
  

2009

• Supervised and Knowledge-based Methods for Disambiguating Terms in Biomedical Text using the UMLS and MetaMap (McInnes) - PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, September, 2009.
  
  
• An Extended Analysis of a Method of All Words Sense Disambiguation (Kolhatkar) - Master of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, August, 2009.
  
  

2006

• Kernel Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation and Abbreviation Expansion in the Medical Domain (Joshi) - Master of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, August, 2006. [co-advised with Rich Maclin]
  
  
• Comparing Supervised and Unsupervised Classification of Messages in the Enron Email Corpus (Padhye) - Master of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, August, 2006.
  
  
• Unsupervised Context Discrimination and Automatic Cluster Stopping (Kulkarni) - Master of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, July, 2006.
  
  
• Introducing an Object Oriented Design to the Ngram Statistics Package (Kohli) - Master of Science Project, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, July, 2006.
  
  

2005

• Semantic Relatedness Applied to All Words Sense Disambiguation (Michelizzi) - Master of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, July, 2005.
  
  
• Identifying Sets of Related Words from the World Wide Web (Raveendranathan) - Master of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, July, 2005.
  
  

2004

• Extending the Log-Likelihood Ratio to Improve Collocation Identification (McInnes) - Master of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, December, 2004.
  
  
• Word Sense Discrimination by Clustering Similar Contexts (Purandare) - Master of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, August, 2004.
  
  

2003

• Combining Lexical and Syntactic Features for Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation (Mohammad) - Master of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, August, 2003.
  
  
• Incorporating Dictionary and Corpus Information into a Context Vector Measure of Semantic Relatedness (Patwardhan) - Master of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, August, 2003.

2002

• Adapting the Lesk Algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation to WordNet (Banerjee) - Master of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, December, 2002.
  
  
• Identifying Word Translations in Parallel Corpora Using Measures of Association (Varma) - Master of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, December, 2002.

2001

• User-Level Control of Scheduling in a Micro Kernel Operating System (Paluskar) - Master of Science Project, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, November, 2001.

By: Ted Pedersen - tpederse AT d umn edu