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ContributorsDaval, Charles (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2018-03-26
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DescriptionThe purpose of this project is to explore the influence of folk music in guitar compositions by Manuel Ponce from 1923 to 1932. It focuses on his Tres canciones populares mexicanas and Tropico and Rumba.
ContributorsGarcia Santos, Arnoldo (Author) / Koonce, Frank (Thesis advisor) / Rogers, Rodney (Committee member) / Rotaru, Catalin (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2014
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Sarcasm is a nuanced form of language where usually, the speaker explicitly states the opposite of what is implied. Imbued with intentional ambiguity and subtlety, detecting sarcasm is a difficult task, even for humans. Current works approach this challenging problem primarily from a linguistic perspective, focusing on the lexical and

Sarcasm is a nuanced form of language where usually, the speaker explicitly states the opposite of what is implied. Imbued with intentional ambiguity and subtlety, detecting sarcasm is a difficult task, even for humans. Current works approach this challenging problem primarily from a linguistic perspective, focusing on the lexical and syntactic aspects of sarcasm. In this thesis, I explore the possibility of using behavior traits intrinsic to users of sarcasm to detect sarcastic tweets. First, I theorize the core forms of sarcasm using findings from the psychological and behavioral sciences, and some observations on Twitter users. Then, I develop computational features to model the manifestations of these forms of sarcasm using the user's profile information and tweets. Finally, I combine these features to train a supervised learning model to detect sarcastic tweets. I perform experiments to extensively evaluate the proposed behavior modeling approach and compare with the state-of-the-art.
ContributorsRajadesingan, Ashwin (Author) / Liu, Huan (Thesis advisor) / Kambhampati, Subbarao (Committee member) / Pon-Barry, Heather (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2014
ContributorsKotronakis, Dimitris (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2018-03-01
ContributorsDavin, Colin (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2018-10-05
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With the advent of social media and micro-blogging sites, people have become active in sharing their thoughts, opinions, ideologies and furthermore enforcing them on others. Users have become the source for the production and dissemination of real time information. The content posted by the users can be used to understand

With the advent of social media and micro-blogging sites, people have become active in sharing their thoughts, opinions, ideologies and furthermore enforcing them on others. Users have become the source for the production and dissemination of real time information. The content posted by the users can be used to understand them and track their behavior. Using this content of the user, data analysis can be performed to understand their social ideology and affinity towards Radical and Counter-Radical Movements. During the process of expressing their opinions people use hashtags in their messages in Twitter. These hashtags are a rich source of information in understanding the content based relationship between the online users apart from the existing context based follower and friend relationship.

An intelligent visual dash-board system is necessary which can track the activities of the users and diffusion of the online social movements, identify the hot-spots in the users' network, show the geographic foot print of the users and to understand the socio-cultural, economic and political drivers for the relationship among different groups of the users.
ContributorsGaripalli, Sravan Kumar (Author) / Davulcu, Hasan (Thesis advisor) / Shakarian, Paulo (Committee member) / Hsiao, Ihan (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2015
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Social media is becoming increasingly popular as a platform for sharing personal health-related information. This information can be utilized for public health monitoring tasks such as pharmacovigilance via the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. One of the critical steps in information extraction pipelines is Named Entity Recognition

Social media is becoming increasingly popular as a platform for sharing personal health-related information. This information can be utilized for public health monitoring tasks such as pharmacovigilance via the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. One of the critical steps in information extraction pipelines is Named Entity Recognition (NER), where the mentions of entities such as diseases are located in text and their entity type are identified. However, the language in social media is highly informal, and user-expressed health-related concepts are often non-technical, descriptive, and challenging to extract. There has been limited progress in addressing these challenges, and advanced machine learning-based NLP techniques have been underutilized. This work explores the effectiveness of different machine learning techniques, and particularly deep learning, to address the challenges associated with extraction of health-related concepts from social media. Deep learning has recently attracted a lot of attention in machine learning research and has shown remarkable success in several applications particularly imaging and speech recognition. However, thus far, deep learning techniques are relatively unexplored for biomedical text mining and, in particular, this is the first attempt in applying deep learning for health information extraction from social media.

This work presents ADRMine that uses a Conditional Random Field (CRF) sequence tagger for extraction of complex health-related concepts. It utilizes a large volume of unlabeled user posts for automatic learning of embedding cluster features, a novel application of deep learning in modeling the similarity between the tokens. ADRMine significantly improved the medical NER performance compared to the baseline systems.

This work also presents DeepHealthMiner, a deep learning pipeline for health-related concept extraction. Most of the machine learning methods require sophisticated task-specific manual feature design which is a challenging step in processing the informal and noisy content of social media. DeepHealthMiner automatically learns classification features using neural networks and utilizing a large volume of unlabeled user posts. Using a relatively small labeled training set, DeepHealthMiner could accurately identify most of the concepts, including the consumer expressions that were not observed in the training data or in the standard medical lexicons outperforming the state-of-the-art baseline techniques.
ContributorsNikfarjam, Azadeh (Author) / Gonzalez, Graciela (Thesis advisor) / Greenes, Robert (Committee member) / Scotch, Matthew (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2016
ContributorsSanchez, Armand (Performer) / Nordstrom, Nathan (Performer) / Roubison, Ryan (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2018-04-13
ContributorsMiranda, Diego (Performer)
Created2018-04-06
ContributorsChan, Robbie (Performer) / McCarrel, Kyla (Performer) / Sadownik, Stephanie (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Contributor)
Created2018-04-18