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View article: Introducing ‘Ngaruroro’, a New Model for Understanding Māori Wellbeing
Introducing ‘Ngaruroro’, a New Model for Understanding Māori Wellbeing Open
Indigenous peoples around the world are revitalising their ancestral beliefs, practices, and languages, including traditional understandings of health and wellbeing. In the Aotearoa (New Zealand) context, a number of ground-breaking Māori …
View article: Introducing ‘Ngaruroro’, a New Model for Understanding Māori Wellbeing
Introducing ‘Ngaruroro’, a New Model for Understanding Māori Wellbeing Open
Indigenous peoples around the world are revitalizing their ancestral beliefs, practices, and languages, including traditional understandings of health and wellbeing. In the Aotearoa (New Zealand) context, a number of ground-breaking Māori …
View article: Large Language Models as Zero-shot Dialogue State Tracker through Function Calling
Large Language Models as Zero-shot Dialogue State Tracker through Function Calling Open
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly prevalent in conversational systems due to their advanced understanding and generative capabilities in general contexts. However, their effectiveness in task-oriented dialogues (TOD), which req…
View article: Public Aspirations for a decolonised city. Food security and "re-storytelling"
Public Aspirations for a decolonised city. Food security and "re-storytelling" Open
In 2017, the Imagining Decolonised Cities (IDC) competition sought submissions for the public’s visions of a decolonised Porirua. The IDC competition was an opportunity for Ngāti Toa Rangatira to solicit utopic ideas for their city post-se…
View article: Towards Zero-Shot Frame Semantic Parsing with Task Agnostic Ontologies and Simple Labels
Towards Zero-Shot Frame Semantic Parsing with Task Agnostic Ontologies and Simple Labels Open
Frame semantic parsing is an important component of task-oriented dialogue systems. Current models rely on a significant amount training data to successfully identify the intent and slots in the user's input utterance. This creates a signi…
View article: Towards Zero-Shot Frame Semantic Parsing with Task Agnostic Ontologies and Simple Labels
Towards Zero-Shot Frame Semantic Parsing with Task Agnostic Ontologies and Simple Labels Open
Danilo Neves Ribeiro, Jack Goetz, Omid Abdar, Mike Ross, Annie Dong, Kenneth Forbus, Ahmed Mohamed. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Pattern-based Approaches to NLP in the Age of Deep Learning. 2023.
View article: Data-Efficiency with a Single GPU: An Exploration of Transfer Methods for Small Language Models
Data-Efficiency with a Single GPU: An Exploration of Transfer Methods for Small Language Models Open
Multi-task learning (MTL), instruction tuning, and prompting have recently been shown to improve the generalizability of large language models to new tasks. However, the benefits of such methods are less well-documented in smaller language…
View article: The Impact of Immunosuppression on Chronic Kidney Disease in People Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus: The D:A:D Study
The Impact of Immunosuppression on Chronic Kidney Disease in People Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus: The D:A:D Study Open
Background Relations between different measures of human immunodeficiency virus–related immunosuppression and chronic kidney disease (CKD) remain unknown. Methods Immunosuppression measures included baseline, current, time-lagged and nadir…
View article: Use of Contemporary Protease Inhibitors and Risk of Incident Chronic Kidney Disease in Persons With Human Immunodeficiency Virus: the Data Collection on Adverse Events of Anti-HIV Drugs (D:A:D) Study
Use of Contemporary Protease Inhibitors and Risk of Incident Chronic Kidney Disease in Persons With Human Immunodeficiency Virus: the Data Collection on Adverse Events of Anti-HIV Drugs (D:A:D) Study Open
Background It is unclear whether use of contemporary protease inhibitors pose a similar risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) as use of older protease inhibitors. Methods Participants in the Data Collection on Adverse Events of Anti-HIV Dru…
View article: Māori Oral Traditions He Kōrero nō te Ao Tawhito
Māori Oral Traditions He Kōrero nō te Ao Tawhito Open
Like yesterday’s newsfeed most people, whether Māori or Pākehā, are ignorant about the traditions of their ancestors. However, like today’s cellphone, those ancient traditions were constantly on hand for their Māori ancestral users, and re…
View article: Understanding the uncomfortable kōkako: the challenge of applying threshold concepts in Māori studies
Understanding the uncomfortable kōkako: the challenge of applying threshold concepts in Māori studies Open
There are Māori studies programmes in all eight New Zealand universities and thousands of Māori studies students enrol each year. However, little research has been done on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) within the Māori st…
View article: Wolf-Livestock Conflict in Montana: Spatial and Temporal Factors Influencing Livestock Loss
Wolf-Livestock Conflict in Montana: Spatial and Temporal Factors Influencing Livestock Loss Open
Successful wolf (Canis lupus) recovery in Montana has brought with it some negative impacts on livestock producers in certain areas and time periods. We assessed the spatial and temporal patterns of wolf depredations on livestock in Monta…
View article: Renal Impairment and Cardiovascular Disease in HIV-Positive Individuals: The D:A:D Study
Renal Impairment and Cardiovascular Disease in HIV-Positive Individuals: The D:A:D Study Open
Among HIV-positive individuals in a large contemporary cohort, a strong relation between confirmed impaired eGFR and CVD was observed. This finding highlights the need for renal preventive measures and intensified monitoring for emerging C…