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Epistemological Databases For Probabilistic Knowledge Base Construction, Michael Louis Wick Mar 2015

Epistemological Databases For Probabilistic Knowledge Base Construction, Michael Louis Wick

Doctoral Dissertations

Knowledge bases (KB) facilitate real world decision making by providing access to structured relational information that enables pattern discovery and semantic queries. Although there is a large amount of data available for populating a KB; the data must first be gathered and assembled. Traditionally, this integration is performed automatically by storing the output of an information extraction pipeline directly into a database as if this prediction were the ``truth.'' However, the resulting KB is often not reliable because (a) errors accumulate in the integration pipeline, and (b) they persist in the KB even after new information arrives that could rectify …


A Visual Approach To Automated Text Mining And Knowledge Discovery, Andrey A. Puretskiy Dec 2010

A Visual Approach To Automated Text Mining And Knowledge Discovery, Andrey A. Puretskiy

Doctoral Dissertations

The focus of this dissertation has been on improving the non-negative tensor factorization technique of text mining. The improvements have been made in both pre-processing and post-processing stages, with the goal of making the non-negative tensor factorization algorithm accessible to the casual user. The improved implementation allows the user to construct and modify the contents of the tensor, experiment with relative term weights and trust measures, and experiment with the total number of algorithm output features. Non-negative tensor factorization output feature production is closely integrated with a visual post-processing tool, FutureLens, that allows the user to perform in depth analysis …