Much of this text was derived from the UBC MDS page and edited to fit specifics for the MDS-CL program

• Improving BC Data Catalogue with NLP Techniques

  Student Capstone Project

  Posted on October 6, 2023

  

  

  The BC Data Catalogue contains over 3,000 government datasets with lots of useful information, available for anyone to use. Despite its wealth of information, users often faced difficulties in locating the datasets they needed, resulting in lower engagement with the platform. Recognizing this challenge, BC Data Service identified two key... [Read More]

• Why do Judges Allow or Deny Eviction Orders in Ontario's Residential Tenancy Board?

  Student Capstone Project

  Posted on September 26, 2023

  

  

  The University of Toronto’s Future of Law Lab worked with two groups of Master of Data Science Computational Linguistics students to help answer the following question: Why do judges allow or deny eviction orders in Ontario’s Residential Tenancy Board? [Read More]

• Preserving Cultural Heritage with the Help of an Ojibwe Verb Conjugator

  Student Capstone Project

  Posted on August 25, 2022

  

  

  Language is not only an important form of communication, but also important for the preservation of cultural heritage. This is particularly true of Indigenous languages. [Read More]

• Cross-Lingual NER for Low-Resource Languages

  Student Capstone Project

  Posted on August 13, 2021

  

  

  For their capstone project, a group of UBC MDS Computational Linguistics students were tasked by Seasalt.ai, a conversational AI start-up, to create a universal NER (Named Entity Recognition) system with fine-grained labels for multiple low-resource languages. [Read More]

• Phase One of a Universal Graded Reader

  Student Capstone Project

  Posted on August 13, 2021

  

  

  Graded readers are levelled reading materials that help language learners improve, by detecting stories and other media that are just slightly above the learner’s current level in the language. [Read More]

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