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Development Of An Android Based Performance Assessment System For Motivational Interviewing Training, Sowmya Pappu
Development Of An Android Based Performance Assessment System For Motivational Interviewing Training, Sowmya Pappu
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Motivational Interviewing (MI) has been proved to be an effective Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) technique. It is an evidence-based practice used to identify, reduce, and prevent problematic use, abuse, and dependence on alcohol and illicit drugs. It emphasizes on patient-centered counseling approach that can help resolve their ambivalence through a non-confrontational, goal-oriented style for eliciting behavior change from the patient, almost like patients talk themselves into change. This approach provokes less resistance and stimulates the progress of patients at their own pace towards deciding about planning, making and sustaining positive behavioral change. Thus, training medical professionals …
Learning To Rank Algorithms And Their Application In Machine Translation, Tian Xia
Learning To Rank Algorithms And Their Application In Machine Translation, Tian Xia
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In this thesis, we discuss two issues in the learning to rank area, choosing effective objective loss function, constructing effective regresstion trees in the gradient boosting framework, as well as a third issus, applying learning to rank models into statistcal machine translation. First, list-wise based learning to rank methods either directly optimize performance measures or optimize surrogate functions of performance measures that have smaller gaps between optimized losses and performance measures, thus it is generally believed that they should be able to lead to better performance than point-and pair-wise based learning to rank methods. However, in real-world applications, state-of-the-art practical …