Keynote Speech: Daniel Jeske - 2023 Graduate Student Research Conference May 20, 2023

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The NISS Graduate Student Network hosted the 3rd two-day Graduate Student Network Research Conference which took place on Saturday, May 20 and Sunday, May 21, 2023, from 12pm - 5 pm ET. This video is the recording of the 1st Keynote Speech: featuring Daniel Jeske (Department of Statistics at UC Riverside) titled: "A Neutral Zone Classifier for Three Classes with an Application to Text Mining."

Covered in this video on Day 1: Saturday, May 20, 2023:
Keynote Speaker: Daniel. R. Jeske, Professor and Vice Provost, University of California, Riverside
Date: Saturday, May 20, 2023 at 1:30 pm – 2:30pm ET
Title: "A Neutral Zone Classifier for Three Classes with an Application to Text Mining"
Chaired by: Sharmistha Guha, Texas A&M

Abstract: A statistical classifier may be limited by its conditional misclassification rates more than the overall misclassification rate. In the case that one or more of the misclassification rates are high, a neutral zone may be introduced to lower, and possibly balance, conditional misclassification rates. A neutral zone is incorporated into a three-class classifier with its region determined by controlling the conditional misclassification rates. The classifier is illustrated with a text mining application whose aim is to classify written comments associated with student evaluations of teaching. Brought into the realm of classifiers for three classes with its size determined by misclassification rates. It is presented with an application to assess the sentiment of student comments written for instructor evaluations. Keywords: Statistical Classification, Neutral Zone, Text Mining, Sentiment AAnalysis, Word2Vec

About this conference:
The GSN Research Conference featured graduate student presentations, a Scientific Writing Short Course presented by Donald Richards (Department of Statistics at Penn State), and two Invited Talks: Day 1 featured Daniel Jeske (Department of Statistics at UC Riverside) and Day 2 featured Xihong Lin (Harvard University).

A special Thank You to this year's sponsor Procter and Gamble (P&G), who is sponsoring this for the 2nd time and is an active NISS Industry Affiliate!

The next video in the YouTube Playlist is the Short Course on Scientific Writing: featuring Donald Richards (Department of Statistics at Penn State University) titled: "The Difficult Art of Writing Well."