Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1997. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109-112). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1997. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109-112). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.)--Wheaton College Graduate School, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-50).

Thesis (M.A.)--Wheaton College Graduate School, Wheaton, IL, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-50).

Thesis (M.C.S.)--Carleton University, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-113). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.)--Wheaton College Graduate School, Wheaton, IL, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-50).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 24, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-91).

Emotions and sentiments play a crucial role in our everyday lives. They aid decision-making, learning, communication, and situation awareness in human-centric environments. Over the past two decades, researchers in artificial intelligence have been attempting to endow machines with cognitive capabilities to recognize, infer, interpret and express emotions and sentiments. All such efforts can be attributed to affective computing, an interdisciplinary field spanning computer science, psychology, social sciences and cognitive science. Sentiment analysis and emotion recognition has also become a new trend in social media, avidly helping users understand opinions being expressed on different platforms in the web. In this thesis, we focus on developing novel methods for text-based sentiment analysis. As an application of the developed methods, we employ them to improve multimodal polarity detection and emotion recognition. Specifically, we develop innovative text and visual-based sentiment-analysis engines and use them to improve the performance of multimodal sentiment analysis. We begin by discussing challenges involved in both text-based and multimodal sentiment analysis. Next, we present a number of novel techniques to address these challenges. In particular, in the context of concept-based sentiment analysis, a paradigm gaining increasing interest recently, it is important to identify concepts in text; accordingly, we design a syntaxbased concept-extraction engine. We then exploit the extracted concepts to develop conceptbased affective vector space which we term, EmoSenticSpace. We then use this for deep learning-based sentiment analysis, in combination with our novel linguistic pattern-based affective reasoning method termed sentiment flow. Finally, we integrate all our text-based techniques and combine them with a novel deep learning-based visual feature extractor for multimodal sentiment analysis and emotion recognition. Comparative experimental results using a range of benchmark datasets have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Recently a new method for training generative neural networks called Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) has shown great results in the computer vision domain and shown potential in other generative machine learning tasks as well. GAN training is an adversarial training method where two neural networks compete and attempt to outperform each other, and in the process they both learn. In this thesis the effectiveness of GAN training is tested on conversational agents also called chat bots. To test this, current state-of-the-art training methods such as Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) models are compared with GAN method trained models. Model performance was measured by closeness of the model distribution from the target distribution after training. This thesis shows that the GAN method performs worse the MLE in some scenarios but can outperform MLE in some cases. / Nyligen har en ny metod för att träna generativa neurala nätverk kallad Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) visat bra resultat inom datorseendedomänen och visat potential inom andra maskininlärningsområden också GAN-träning är en träningsmetod där två neurala nätverk tävlar och försöker överträffa varandra, och i processen lär sig båda. I detta examensarbete har effektiviteten av GAN-träning testats på konversationsagenter, som också kallas Chat bots. För att testa det här jämfördes modeller tränade med nuvarande state-of- the-art träningsmetoder, så som Maximum likelihood-metoden (ML), med GAN-tränade modeller. Modellernas prestation mättes genom distans från modelldistribution till måldistribution efter träning. Det här examensarbetet visar att GAN-metoden presterar sämre än ML-metoden i vissa scenarier men kan överträffa ML i vissa fall.

This project aims to detect possible anomalies in the resource consumption of radio base stations within the 4G LTE Radio architecture. This has been done by analyzing the statistical data that each node generates every 15 minutes, in the form of "performance maintenance counters". In this thesis, we introduce methods that allow resources to be automatically monitored after software updates, in order to detect any anomalies in the consumption patterns of the different resources compared to the reference period before the update. Additionally, we also attempt to narrow down the origin of anomalies by pointing out parameters potentially linked to the issue. / Detta projekt syftar till att upptäcka möjliga anomalier i resursförbrukningen hos radiobasstationer inom 4G LTE Radio-arkitekturen. Detta har gjorts genom att analysera de statistiska data som varje nod genererar var 15:e minut, i form av PM-räknare (PM = Performance Maintenance). I denna avhandling introducerar vi metoder som låter resurser över-vakas automatiskt efter programuppdateringar, för att upptäcka eventuella avvikelser i resursförbrukningen jämfört med referensperioden före uppdateringen. Dessutom försöker vi också avgränsa ursprunget till anomalier genom att peka ut parametrar som är potentiellt kopplade till problemet.