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Scoring Sentences Developmentally: An Analog of Developmental Sentence Scoring
… This study compares a new automated index, Scoring Sentences Developmentally (SSD), to two existing measures. Eighty samples from three corpora were manually analyzed using DSS and MLU and the processed by the automated software. Results show all three indices to be highly correlated, with …
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Statistical aspects of credit scoring
… is concerned with statistical aspects of credit scoring, the process of determining how likely an applicant for credit is to default with repayments. In Chapters 1-4 a detailed introduction to credit scoring methodology is presented, including evaluation of previous published work on credit …
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Performance-based credit scoring model
… economic recession in USA. Accordingly, credit scoring models should basically focus on evaluating the lender's judgements about a borrower's future business performance. Similarly, the validity of these models should be based on the accuracy in predicting borrower's actual business performance …
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Data-driven Investment Decisions in P2P Lending: Strategies of Integrating Credit Scoring and Profit Scoring
… (P2P) lending. In evaluating loans, credit scoring and profit scoring are the two widely utilized approaches. Credit scoring aims at minimizing the risk while profit scoring aims at maximizing the profit. This dissertation addresses the strengths and weaknesses of each scoring method by …
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Proper scoring rules : properties and applications
Proper and strictly proper scoring rules provide a rigorous method for evaluating the accuracy of a probabilistic forecast while encouraging honesty. In this dissertation, we develop new proper and strictly proper scoring rules. We introduce additive and strongly additive scoring rules that can be …
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DOMAIN ADAPTATION FOR AUTOMATED ESSAY SCORING
Automated Essay Scoring (AES) is an important task in Natural Language Processing. The research done by various commercial organizations has identi ed the features that correlate well with human scoring. They have built strong AES systems that achieve high agreement with human scoring based on …
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The Use of an Enhanced Polygraph Scoring Technique in Homeland Security : The Empirical Scoring System --Making a Difference
This thesis studies the polygraph Empirical Scoring System (ESS) to determine its potential use in homeland security and the war on terror. The research based its analysis on raw data previously collected by other researchers, who removed identifications from the data and subsequently provided it …
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Tackling change and uncertainty in credit scoring
Credit scoring methods summanse information on credit applicants. An assessment of creditworthiness is derived from this summary. This thesis is concerned with statistical methods of credit scoring. Much of the existing literature on credit scoring is concerned with comparing the predictive power …
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Analysis of Scoring Music to Visual Media
… of Barak Shpiez represent the challenges of scoring music to picture in contemporary practice. The four selections characterize the diversity of styles a composer must be able to effectively emulate in order to convincingly accentuate the mood and emotion of the visual element. The process …
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Accuracy of Automated Developmental Sentence Scoring Software
<p>Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS; Lee 1974) is a well established, structured method for analyzing a child's expressive syntax within the context of a conversational speech sample. Automated DSS programs may increase efficiency of DSS analysis; however the program must be accurate in order to …
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Improving speculative retrieval-augmented generation via verifier scoring
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Candidate gene scoring to predict broad adolescent psychopathology
This Thesis was approved for publication on 2018-04-23 at 10:50.
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Ability Estimation Under Different Item Parameterization and Scoring Models
… simulation study investigated the effect of scoring format, item parameterization, threshold configuration, and prior ability distribution on the accuracy of ability estimation given various IRT models. Item response data on 30 items from 1,000 examinees was simulated using known item …
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Comparing Five Empirical Biodata Scoring Methods for Personnel Selection
… retail company. Five separate empirical biodata scoring methods were compared to examine their usefulness in predicting retention and reducing adverse impact. The Mean Standardized Criterion Method, the Option Criterion Correlation Method, Horizontal Percentage Method, Vertical Percentage Method, …
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The Influence of Scoring Parameters on Precision-Based AdaBoost
… justification or formal derivation of the scoring param- eters chosen. No formal guarantees exist on the performance of those parameters either. Furthermore, the precision-based approach so far merely focuses on two-class classification problems. This thesis proposes a theoretical …
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Revisiting and re-computing the X-score scoring function
Scoring functions seek to compute in different ways protein-ligand binding energies by summing together the individual pairwise atomic interaction energies observed in crystal structures between the protein and the bound ligand. To date though, accurate prediction remains a big challenge since …
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Joint use of poverty scoring and credit scoring: advantages and limitations of a new technique for socially oriented and sustainability-minded microfinance institutions
… institutions, including MFIs, can use credit scoring to mitigate the first type of adverse selection. Credit scoring helps identify risky borrowers, allowing institutions to reject high-risk applications, price loans based on credit risk, and adjust the required guarantees. To address the …
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