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Excellence in Research: Mitigating Confounding Errors in Real-World Machine Learning for R — NSF Award to Alabama State University

User-generated contents, such as online reviews or social media posts, often contain hidden information like education, personal preferences, location, or language. This information, known as confounding factors, can affect the contents and impact the outcomes of decision systems. When applying machine learning for rea

Award titleExcellence in Research: Mitigating Confounding Errors in Real-World Machine Learning for R
Award ID2502941
AwardeeAlabama State University
CityMONTGOMERY
StateAL
Amount obligated$674,160
Principal investigatorQiunan Zhang
ProgramHBCU-EiR - HBCU-Excellence in, HCC-Human-Centered Computing
Start date10/01/2025
AbstractUser-generated contents, such as online reviews or social media posts, often contain hidden information like education, personal preferences, location, or language. This information, known as confounding factors, can affect the contents and impact the outcomes of decision systems. When applying machine learning for real-world decision support, those confounding factors can easily have negative effects on model generalizability and usability. This project focuses on identifying and mitigating con
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