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Ocarina Studios

Dream Database | Student Capstone Project

Aug 23 / 2024

Ocarina Studios’ Dream QuiZzz is an adventure/trivia game, currently being powered by a database of approximately 30,000 manually-written questions. In order for the database to expand efficiently and effectively, Ocarina Studios worked with a group of UBC Master of Data Science in Computational Linguistics students on a data pipeline project that will generate question-answer (QA) pairs, without the need for human intervention, through the use of machine learning and linguistic techniques.

Slang Identification

Student Data Science Project

Apr 17 / 2024

For their Advanced Corpus Linguistics project, a group of UBC Master of Data Science (MDS) Computational Linguistics students created a corpus of social media content and comments to help understand and keep up with new slang terms.

Master of Data Science Computational Linguistics Advanced Corpus Linguistics Project Job Search

Informative Job Search

Student Data Science Project

Apr 09 / 2024

To help navigate the complexities of today’s job search, a group of UBC Master of Data Science (MDS) Computational Linguistics students worked on a project to help job seekers find the right role for their career aspirations while also being confident about job stability.

Winnipeg Jets

Ticket Pricing Model for the Winnipeg Jets | Student Capstone Project

Oct 24 / 2023

True North Sports and Entertainment worked with a group of UBC Master of Data Science Okanagan students to create a ticket pricing model from scratch using Jets ticket sales data from the past decade.

BC Stats

Improving BC Data Catalogue with NLP Techniques | Student Capstone Project

Oct 06 / 2023

BC Stats collaborated with a team of UBC Master of Data Science – Computational Linguistics students to enhance user experience and adoption of BC Data Catalogue by implementing advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. The primary focus was to help users find the datasets they needed and understand what datasets were available.

Master of Data Science Computational Linguistics Law Capstone Project

Future of Law Lab

Why do Judges Allow or Deny Eviction Orders in Ontario's Residential Tenancy Board? | Student Capstone Project

Sep 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?

Master of Data Science Vancouver ICBC Capstone Project

Insurance Corporation of British Columbia

Image Recognition of Vehicle Odometer Readings | Student Capstone Project

Sep 22 / 2023

To reduce the amount of manual review, ICBC tasked a group of UBC Master of Data Science (MDS) Vancouver students to develop a pipeline capable of accurately reading odometers from dashboard photographs to assist with its low-kilometre discount program.

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Neotoma Paleoecology Database

Finding Fossils in the Literature | Student Capstone Project

Aug 29 / 2023

The Neotoma Paleoecology Database is a National Science Foundation funded, open source, community-led database that contains records of over 10 million ice age fossils. However, data entry of new records is a time-consuming process, and is often a barrier for researchers submitting their data. Neotoma worked with a group of UBC Master of Data Science Vancouver students to develop a full-text journal search using NLP tools to both identify articles of interest to Neotoma’s team of data stewards, and to extract relevant data from the journal articles to reduce the barrier for data upload.

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Parallel Corpra

AI-Generated versus Human-Written Text | Student Data Science Project

Apr 03 / 2023

With the rise of ChatGPT, for their Advanced Corpus Linguistics course, a group of MDS Computational Linguistics students wanted to develop a model that can distinguish between human text and A.I. generated text.

Master of Data Science Computational Linguistics Advanced Corpus Linguistics Project Bookdel Web App

BookdelTest

Female Participation in Jane Austen Novels | Student Data Science Project

Mar 28 / 2023

For their Advanced Corpus Linguistics project, a group of MDS Computational Linguistics students wanted to apply the Bechdel Test to the works of Jane Austen.

Vancouver

BC Centre on Substance Use

DrugSense – Applying Data Science to Drug Checking | Student Capstone Project

Aug 13 / 2021

Together with the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU), students from UBC’s MDS Vancouver program developed an interactive DrugSense dashboard interface for the BCCSU’s website. The goal of the project was to give those who use drug-checking services a way to visualize and explore key trends and statistics related to specific drugs and an ever-changing and unregulated drug market, while providing opportunities to learn more.

Vancouver Whitecaps FC

Modelling the Physical Performance of the Vancouver Whitecaps | Student Capstone Project

Oct 06 / 2020

Working with the Vancouver Whitecaps, Vancouver’s professional Major League Soccer team, a group of UBC MDS Vancouver students analyzed players physical performance to build a model for player fatigue and fitness. The students developed a data pipeline which can help the Whitecaps analyze and understand training loads for each session and closely examine the players' physical outputs during training sessions and matches.

Data in Action: Using Machine Learning to Predict Playground Usage

Biba Ventures

Using Machine Learning to Predict Playground Usage | Student Capstone Project

Oct 06 / 2020

A team of UBC MDS Vancouver students worked with Biba, a smart playground company, to build several learning models in order to estimate the number of monthly sessions at particular playgrounds within a given month. Data was collected from 2506 playgrounds across the US to help understand how playgrounds are being used in order for park managers to make meaningful decisions regarding the management of existing playgrounds and the planning of new playgrounds.

Urban Logiq

Identifying Amenity Gaps | Student Capstone Project

Oct 06 / 2020

In partnership with Urban Logiq, an organization that helps governments worldwide make faster, cheaper and more accurate decisions with their data, a group of MDS Vancouver students collected data from GPS-enabled vehicles in a specific city of interest and created two sets of visualization tools, which they used to help answer two questions: How far does someone need to travel to reach an amenity? And are certain nearby amenities being bypassed in favour of others?

E-Comm 9-1-1

‘Saving Lives and Protecting Property’ with a Predictive Staffing Model | Student Capstone Project

Oct 28 / 2019

Working with E-Comm 9-1-1—a multi-municipality emergency communications agency serving British Columbia—UBC Master of Data Science students looked at how the agency’s existing data could be used to create call-taking and dispatch schedules that would correspond with shifting call volumes based on time of day, day of week, and holidays or special events throughout the year.

Data in Action: Delivering Better Care Through Education

QxMD

Delivering Better Care Through Education | Student Capstone Project

Oct 18 / 2019

In partnership with QxMD—a Vancouver-based digital learning technology company—students from UBC’s Master of Data Science program created a tool to identify trending health topics within news articles and match these with relevant medical journal articles. Thus helping medical professionals better serve patients with questions related to specific news articles they’ve read.

Data in Action: Predicting Customer Order Probabilities

Fresh Prep

Predicting Customer Order Probabilities | Student Capstone Project

Oct 18 / 2019

Students of UBC’s Master of Data Science program in Vancouver worked with Fresh Prep to design a dashboard tool that not only helped the meal kit delivery company predict its future orders but also provided the insights needed to help Fresh Prep better serve its existing customers and improve their order rate.

Finn Ai

Helping AI Recognize Intent | Student Capstone Project

Oct 10 / 2019

Students from UBC’s Master of Data Science program worked with banking software company, Finn Ai, to pinpoint areas for improvement in the way their conversational assistants understand and respond to customer needs.

Coast Mountain Bus Company

Bringing Clarity to Transit Congestion | Student Capstone Project

Dec 05 / 2017

Working with Coast Mountain Bus Company, students from UBC’s Master of Data Science program designed a forecasting tool using bus route data to create more accurate schedules for TransLink’s largest operating company.

Transplant Translation

Jun 01 / 2017

Data scientists are having a positive impact in the medical field – in ways never dreamed possible. Using a new automated RNA analysis platform that conducts biomarker blood tests, data scientists can monitor and treat heart transplant patients with a simple blood test instead of invasive biopsies.

Okanagan

Computational Linguistics

Parallel Corpra

AI-Generated versus Human-Written Text | Student Data Science Project

Apr 03 / 2023

BookdelTest

Female Participation in Jane Austen Novels | Student Data Science Project

Mar 28 / 2023

For their Advanced Corpus Linguistics project, a group of MDS Computational Linguistics students wanted to apply the Bechdel Test to the works of Jane Austen.

Master of Data Science Computational Linguistics Ojibwe

CultureFoundry

Preserving Cultural Heritage with the Help of an Ojibwe Verb Conjugator | Student Capstone Project

Aug 25 / 2022

Looking for a way to improve the conjugation tool for nouns and verbs within various Indigenous languages, such as Ojibwe, CultureFoundry turned to a group of UBC Master of Data Science (MDS) Computational Linguistics students, who created an Ojibwe conjugator and API (Application Programming Interface) to tackle this task. This tool will allow language learners to smoothly and efficiently navigate the many possible forms each word can take, giving them greater authority and confidence in building their language skills.

Goodreads - MDS Computational Linguistics

Detecting Emotion in Goodreads Book Reviews

Student Data Science Project

Apr 06 / 2022

As part of their Advanced Corpus Linguistics project, four MDS Computational Linguistics students wanted to investigate the specific emotion in Goodreads book reviews.

Revelo Magicen

The Harry Potter Spell Hunt | Student Data Science Project

Apr 04 / 2022

For their Advanced Corpus Linguistics project, a group of MDS Computational Linguistics students decided to track all the spells mentioned in the Harry Potter book series.

Automatic Speech Recognition - MDS Computational Linguistics

Trends in Computational Linguistics

Automatic Speech Recognition for Non-Native English with Transfer Learning | Alumni Data Science Project

Dec 09 / 2021

A group of MDS Computational Linguistics alumni contributed to an article that centered around automatic speech recognition for non-native English with transfer learning.

Nick Sanders DIA - MDS Computational Linguistics

Institute and Center Predictions for Automated Recommendations of Grant Applications

Alumni Data Science Project

Aug 30 / 2021

During his time at Bethesda, Maryland-based National Institutes of Health, Nicholas Sanders, MDS Computational Linguistics Alumnus, Class of 2021, worked on a model deployed on an internal NIH website for staff to input a given grant application and receive PAC/PO recommendations.

Seasalt.ai

Cross-Lingual NER for Low-Resource Languages | Student Capstone Project

Aug 13 / 2021

Working with Seattle-based AI start-up, Seasalt.ai, students from UBC’s Master of Data Science in Computational Linguistics program created a universal NER (Named Entity Recognition) system that applied transfer learning from high-resource language datasets to low-resource languages. This allowed crucial information to be extracted from previously underrepresented languages, like Indonesian, Javanese, Malay, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Croatian, and Czech, for use across a variety of Natural Language Processing tasks.

Universal Graded Reader - MDS Computational Linguistics

UBC Linguistics and UBC French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies

Phase One of a Universal Graded Reader | Student Capstone Project

Aug 13 / 2021

As a result of a question posed by UBC Linguistics and French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies faculty, a group of UBC MDS Computational Linguistics students embarked on the first phase of a project that could improve graded readers for any language. The capstone project focused on A1, A2, and B level documents for the Spanish language, but it laid the foundation for the creation of a universal reader.

Creating a Search Engine for Domain-Specific Text

Alumni Data Science Project

Jul 22 / 2021

Ilana Zimmerman, MDS Computational Linguistics Alumna (Class of 2020) was tasked to create a search engine based on two transformer models in her role as a Natural Language Processing Engineer with ALEX - Alternative Experts. ALEX is an ISO 9001:2015-certified solutions provider to Government, Defense, and Commercial contracts, based in Washington, DC.