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Tuesday, August 18, 2020 11:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering — On the Relationship Between the Developer’s Perceptible Ethnicity and the Evaluation of Contributions in GitHub

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Reza Nadri, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Context: Open Source Software (OSS) projects are typically the result of collective efforts performed by developers with different backgrounds. Although the quality of developers’ contributions should be the only factor influencing the evaluation of the contributions to OSS projects, recent studies have shown that diversity issues affect the acceptance or rejection of the contributions. 

Tuesday, August 18, 2020 2:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning — Dialog Response Generation Using Adversarially Learned Latent Bag-of-Words

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Kashif Khan, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Dialog response generation is the task of generating response utterance given a query utterance. Apart from generating relevant and coherent responses, one would like the dialog generation model to generate diverse and informative sentences.