Browsing Theses by Subject "language model"
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AfriBERTa: Towards Viable Multilingual Language Models for Low-resource Languages
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-29)There are over 7000 languages spoken on earth, but many of these languages suffer from a dearth of natural language processing (NLP) tools. Multilingual pretrained language models have been introduced to help alleviate ... -
Effects of Personality Traits and Emotional Factors in Pull Request Acceptance.
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-26)Social interactions in the form of discussion are an indispensable part of collaborative software development. The discussions are essential for developers to share their views and to form a strong relationship with other ... -
Novel Methods for Natural Language Modeling and Pretraining
(University of Waterloo, 2023-02-21)This thesis is about modeling language sequences to achieve lower perplexity, better generation, and benefit downstream language tasks; specifically, this thesis addresses the importance of natural language features including ...