The Internet of Things and big data are currently hot concepts and research fields. The mining, classification, and recognition of big data in the Internet of Things system are the key links that are widely of concern at present. The artificial neural network is beneficial for multi-dimensional data classification and recognition because of its strong feature extraction and self-learning ability. Pre-training

This article studies noised Asian speech enhancement based on the deep neural network (DNN) and its implementation on an app. We use the THCHS-30 speech dataset and the common noise dataset in daily life as training and testing data of the DNN. To stack the frequency data of multiple audio frames to improve the effect of speech enhancement, the system compares the best number of stacked frames during

Using hierarchical CNN, the company's multiple news is characterized as three levels: sentence vectors, chapter vectors, and enterprise sentiment vectors. By combining the stock price data with the news lyric data at the same time, the influence of news on price is used to achieve correlation analysis of news information and stock prices. A two-channel attention mechanism fusion model based on CNN-LSTM

With the fastest growth of information and communication technology (ICT), the availability of web content on social media platforms is increasing day by day. Sentiment analysis from online reviews drawing researchers’ attention from various organizations such as academics, government, and private industries. Sentiment analysis has been a hot research topic in Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language

With the increase in numbers of multimedia technologies around us, movies and videos on social media and OTT platforms are growing, making it confusing for users to decide which one to watch for. For this, movie recommendation systems are widely used. It has been observed that two-thirds of the films watched on Netflix are the recommended ones to its users. The target of this work is to use implicit

The real-time and dissemination characteristics of network information make net-mediated public opinion become more and more important food safety early warning resources, but the data of petabyte (PB) scale growth also bring great difficulties to the research and judgment of network public opinion, especially how to extract the event role of network public opinion from these data and analyze the sentiment

Computational epigraphy is the study of an ancient script where the computer science and mathematical model is relatively built for epigraphy. The Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions are the most ancient of the extant written of the Tamil. The inscriptions furnish valuable information on many aspects of life in the ancient Tamil country from a period anterior to the literary age of Sangam. The recognition of

There is an exponential growth of text data over the internet, and it is expected to gain significant growth and attention in the coming years. Extracting meaningful insights from text data is crucially important as it offers value-added solutions to business organizations and end-users. Automatic text summarization (ATS) automates text summarization by reducing the initial size of the text without

Multiple sequence alignment methods refer to a series of algorithmic solutions for the alignment of evolutionary-related sequences while taking into account evolutionary events such as mutations, insertions, deletions, and rearrangements under certain conditions. In this article, we propose a method with Q-learning based on the Actor-Critic model for sequence alignment. We transform the sequence alignment

Word representation has always been an important research area in the history of natural language processing (NLP). Understanding such complex text data is imperative, given that it is rich in information and can be used widely across various applications. In this survey, we explore different word representation models and its power of expression, from the classical to modern-day state-of-the-art word

Optimality Theory (OT) and Exemplar Theory (ET) are two enchanting theories to many scholars, but each still faces criticism and remaining persistent problems. Application of both theories to areas in linguistics where conflicts may arise has been attempted, but still the suitability of combining the two theories to resolve contradictions awaits further analysis and verification. This article takes

The intelligent question answering system aims to provide quick and concise feedback on the questions of users. Although the performance of phrase-level and numerous attention models have been improved, the sentence components and position information are not emphasized enough. This article combines Ci-Lin and word2vec to divide all of the words in the question-answer pairs into groups according to

This research proposes to evaluate and analyze the decision matrix for learner's English mobile applications (EMAs) based on multi-objective heuristic decision making with a view to listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Because of the number of criteria, the significance of parameters, and variance in results, EMAs are difficult. Decision making has built on the combination of listening, speaking

Linguistic resources for commonly used languages such as English and Mandarin Chinese are available in abundance, hence the existing research in these languages. However, there are languages for which linguistic resources are scarcely available. One of these languages is the Hindi language. Hindi, being the fourth-most popular language, still lacks in richly populated linguistic resources, owing to

In recent years, Question Answering (QA) systems have increasingly become very popular in many sectors. This study aims to use a knowledge graph and deep learning to develop a QA system for tourism in Vietnam. First, the QA system replies to a user's question about a place in Vietnam. Then, the QA describes it in detail such as when the place was discovered, why the place's name was called like that

This research adopts the methodology of corpus-based analysis and contrastive interlanguage analysis (CIA), using three corpora as the data source to analyze the adverbial connectors used by Chinese EFL (English as a foreign language) learners (i.e., university students in Guangzhou, China) in their written English. Major findings show that Chinese EFL learners have displayed a general tendency to

Attracting and retaining readers in an increasingly competitive environment is an urgent problem for digital libraries of original literature. However, few empirical studies address online reading stickiness, particularly the factors affecting the promotion of online reading stickiness, in what combinations or paths these effects exist, and whether there are complementary, alternative, and inhibitory

With the recent advancement of smartphone technology in the past few years, smartphone usage has increased on a tremendous scale due to its portability and ability to perform many daily life tasks. As a result, smartphones have become one of the most valuable targets for hackers to perform cyberattacks, since the smartphone can contain individuals’ sensitive data. Smartphones are embedded with highly

Sentiment analysis on social media relies on comprehending the natural language and using a robust machine learning technique that learns multiple layers of representations or features of the data and produces state-of-the-art prediction results. The cultural miscellanies, geographically limited trending topic hash-tags, access to aboriginal language keyboards, and conversational comfort in native

Resource optimization algorithm based on clustering and improved differential evolution strategy, as a new global optimized algorithm, has wide applications in language translation, language processing, document understanding, cloud computing, and edge computing due to high efficiency. With the development of deep learning technology and the rise of big data, the resource optimization algorithm encounters

Inference has been central problem for understanding and reasoning in artificial intelligence. Especially, Natural Language Inference is an interesting problem that has attracted the attention of many researchers. Natural language inference intends to predict whether a hypothesis sentence can be inferred from the premise sentence. Most prior works rely on a simplistic association between the premise

Measuring semantic similarity between short texts is an important task in many applications of natural language processing, such as paraphrasing identification. This process requires a benchmark of sentence pairs that are labeled by Arab linguists and considered a standard that can be used by researchers when evaluating their results. This research describes an Arabic paraphrasing benchmark to be a

Open Relation Extraction (ORE) plays a significant role in the field of Information Extraction. It breaks the limitation that traditional relation extraction must pre-define relational types in the annotated corpus and specific domains restrictions, to realize the goal of extracting entities and the relation between entities in the open domain. However, with the increase of sentence complexity, the

The smallest semantic unit of the Burmese language is called the syllable. In the present study, it is intended to propose the first neural joint learning model for Burmese syllable segmentation, word segmentation, and part-of-speech (POS) tagging with the BERT. The proposed model alleviates the error propagation problem of the syllable segmentation. More specifically, it extends the neural joint model

The use of computer programs in breaching web site security is common today. CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) and human interaction proofs are the cost-effective solution to these kinds of computer attacks on web sites. These CAPTCHAs are available in many forms, such as those based on text, images and audio. A CAPTCHA must be secure enough that it

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) is a challenge in Natural Language Processing research. Although many researchers have been focusing on GEC in universal languages such as English or Chinese, few studies focus on Indonesian, which is a low-resource language. In this article, we proposed a GEC framework that has the potential to be a baseline method for Indonesian GEC tasks. This framework treats

The need to capture intra-word information in natural language processing (NLP) tasks has inspired research in learning various word representations at word, character, or morpheme levels, but little attention has been given to syllables from a syllabic alphabet. Motivated by the success of compositional models in morphological languages, we present a Convolutional-long short term memory (Conv-LSTM)

Sinhala is a low-resource language, for which basic language and linguistic tools have not been properly defined. This affects the development of NLP-based end-user applications for Sinhala. Thus, when implementing NLP tools such as sentiment analyzers, we have to rely only on language-independent techniques. This article presents the use of such language-independent techniques in implementing a sentiment

Multimodal summarization aims to extract the most important information from the multimedia input. It is becoming increasingly popular due to the rapid growth of multimedia data in recent years. There are various researches focusing on different multimodal summarization tasks. However, the existing methods can only generate single-modal output or multimodal output. In addition, most of them need a

Machine Translation is an effort to bridge language barriers and misinterpretations, making communication more convenient through the automatic translation of languages. The quality of translations produced by corpus-based approaches predominantly depends on the availability of a large parallel corpus. Although machine translation of many Indian languages has progressively gained attention, there is

Aspect-based sentiment analysis has been studied in both research and industrial communities over recent years. For the low-resource languages, the standard benchmark corpora play an important role in the development of methods. In this article, we introduce two benchmark corpora with the largest sizes at sentence-level for two tasks: Aspect Category Detection and Aspect Polarity Classification in

We describe a cross-lingual adaptation method based on syntactic parse trees obtained from the Universal Dependencies (UD), which are consistent across languages, to develop classifiers in low-resource languages. The idea of UD parsing is to capture similarities as well as idiosyncrasies among typologically different languages. In this article, we show that models trained using UD parse trees for complex

Online Social Networks (OSNs) are very popular platforms for social interaction. Data posted publicly over OSNs pose various threats against the individual privacy of OSN users. Adversaries can try to predict private attribute values, such as gender, as well as links/connections. Quantifying an adversary’s capacity in inferring the gender of an OSN user is an important first step towards privacy protection

Nowadays, wordnets are extensively used as a major resource in natural language processing and information retrieval tasks. Therefore, the accuracy of wordnets has a direct influence on the performance of the involved applications. This paper presents a fully-automated method for extending a previously developed Persian wordnet to cover more comprehensive and accurate verbal entries. At first, by using

The number of sentence pairs in the bilingual corpus is a key to translation accuracy in computational machine translations. However, if the amount goes beyond a certain degree, the increasing number of cases has less impact on the translation while the construction of translation systems requires a considerable amount of time and energy, thus preventing the development of a statistical translation

The core of micro-business and consumer transactions is trust. Based on the Theory of Reasoned Action and Technology Acceptance Model, this article discusses the factors of the establishment and promotion of micro-business trust from the trust orientation of consumer, the trust of WeChat businesses, and the trust of WeChat platform. Data were obtained by questionnaire, and SPSS software was used for

As the number of digital text documents increases on a daily basis, the classification of text is becoming a challenging task. Each text document consists of a large number of words (or features) that drive down the efficiency of a classification algorithm. This article presents an optimized feature selection algorithm designed to reduce a large number of features to improve the accuracy of the text

The quick growth and fast spread of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) have created a new threat to Internet merchants and marketers through paid online reviewers flooding sites with product and service reviews that could confuse and deter customers. This study examined the effects of the posts by paid reviewers—specifically, the negative reviews—on consumers’ risk perception, product attitude, and purchase

Topic modeling is an unsupervised learning task that discovers the hidden topics in a collection of documents. In turn, the discovered topics can be used for summarizing, organizing, and understanding the documents in the collection. Most of the existing techniques for topic modeling are derivatives of the Latent Dirichlet Allocation which uses a bag-of-word assumption for the documents. However, bag-of-words

While the amount of digitally available data on the worlds’ languages is steadily increasing, with more and more languages being documented, only a small proportion of the language resources produced are sustainable. Data reuse is often difficult due to idiosyncratic formats and a negligence of standards that could help to increase the comparability of linguistic data. The sustainability problem is

Digital text is quickly becoming essential to modern daily life. The article you are reading right now is born digital; unlike texts of the not-so-distant past, it may never be printed at all. Worldwide, the trend is clear: Digital text is on the way in, and print is on its way out. Year-by-year, more and more readers are turning to ebooks, internet news, and other forms of ereading, while generation

Background: A hadith refers to sayings, actions, and characteristics of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. The authenticity of hadiths is crucial, because they constitute the source of legislation for Muslims with the Holy Quran. Classifying hadiths into groups is a matter of importance as well, to make them easy to search and recognize. Objective: To report the results of a systematic review

Electronic medical records (EMRs) contain valuable information about the patients, such as clinical symptoms, diagnostic results, and medications. Named entity recognition (NER) aims to recognize entities from unstructured text, which is the initial step toward the semantic understanding of the EMRs. Extracting medical information from Chinese EMRs could be a more complicated task because of the difference

Part-of-speech (POS) tagging is a fundamental task in natural language processing. Korean POS tagging consists of two subtasks: morphological analysis and POS tagging. In recent years, scholars have tended to use the seq2seq model to solve this problem. The full context of a sentence is considered in these seq2seq-based Korean POS tagging methods. However, Korean morphological analysis relies more

Over the past decade, through a mixture of optical character recognition and manual input, there is now a growing corpus of Tibetan literature available as e-texts in Unicode format. With the creation of such a corpus, the techniques of text analytics that have been applied in the analysis of English and other modern languages may now be applied to Tibetan. In this work, we narrow our focus to examine

Pāṇini’s grammar is an important milestone in the Indian grammatical tradition. Unlike grammars of other languages, it is almost exhaustive and together with the theories of śābdabodha (verbal cognition), this grammar provides a system for language analysis as well as generation. The theories of śābdabodha describe three conditions necessary for verbal cognition. They are ākāṅkṣā (expectancy), yogyatā

Logographic and alphabetic languages (e.g., Chinese vs. English) have different writing systems linguistically. Languages belonging to the same writing system usually exhibit more sharing information, which can be used to facilitate natural language processing tasks such as neural machine translation (NMT). This article takes advantage of the logographic characters in Chinese and Japanese by decomposing

Diacritics (short vowels) are typically omitted when writing Arabic text, and readers have to reintroduce them to correctly pronounce words. There are two types of Arabic diacritics: The first are core-word diacritics (CW), which specify the lexical selection, and the second are case endings (CE), which typically appear at the end of word stems and generally specify their syntactic roles. Recovering

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Unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT) has achieved remarkable results for several language pairs, such as French–English and German–English. Most previous studies have focused on modeling UNMT systems; few studies have investigated the effect of UNMT on specific languages. In this article, we first empirically investigate UNMT for four diverse language pairs (French/German/Chinese/Japanese–English)

Disability is an impairment affecting an individual's livelihood and independence. Assistive technology enables the disabled cohort of the community to break the barriers to learning, access information, contribute to the community, and live independently. This article proposes an assistive device to enable people with visual disabilities and learning disabilities to access printed Arabic material

Part of speech (PoS) tagging is one of the fundamental syntactic tasks in Natural Language Processing, as it assigns a syntactic category to each word within a given sentence or context (such as noun, verb, adjective, etc.). Those syntactic categories could be used to further analyze the sentence-level syntax (e.g., dependency parsing) and thereby extract the meaning of the sentence (e.g., semantic

Frequently corresponding to syntactic components, the Maximal-length Noun Phrase (MNP) possesses abundant syntactic and semantic information and acts a certain semantic role in sentences. Recognition of MNP plays an important role in Natural Language Processing and lays the foundation for analyzing and understanding sentence structure and semantics. By comparing the essence of different MNPs, this

Dependency parsing is an important task for Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, a mature parser requires a large treebank for training, which is still extremely costly to create. Tibetan is a kind of extremely low-resource language for NLP, there is no available Tibetan dependency treebank, which is currently obtained by manual annotation. Furthermore, there are few related kinds of research

Learning the representation of a knowledge graph is critical to the field of natural language processing. There is a lot of research for English knowledge graph representation. However, for the low-resource languages, such as Tibetan, how to represent sparse knowledge graphs is a key problem. In this article, aiming at scarcity of Tibetan knowledge graphs, we extend the Tibetan knowledge graph by using

Emotions detection in natural languages is very effective in analyzing the user's mood about a concerned product, news, topic, and so on. However, it is really a challenging task to extract important features from a burst of raw social text, as emotions are subjective with limited fuzzy boundaries. These subjective features can be conveyed in various perceptions and terminologies. In this article,

Subword segmentation plays an important role in Tibetan neural machine translation (NMT). The structure of Tibetan words consists of two levels. First, words consist of a sequence of syllables, and then a syllable consists of a sequence of characters. According to this special word structure, we propose two methods for Tibetan subword segmentation, namely syllable-based and character-based methods

Creating bilingual dictionary is the first crucial step in enriching low-resource languages. Especially for the closely related ones, it has been shown that the constraint-based approach is useful for inducing bilingual lexicons from two bilingual dictionaries via the pivot language. However, if there are no available machine-readable dictionaries as input, we need to consider manual creation by bilingual

The research of Tibetan dependency analysis is mainly limited to two challenges: lack of a dataset and reliance on expert knowledge. To resolve the preceding challenges, we first introduce a new Tibetan dependency analysis dataset, and then propose a neural-based framework that resolves the reliance on the expert knowledge issue by automatically extracting feature vectors of words and predicts their

Image captioning is the process of generating a textual description of an image that aims to describe the salient parts of the given image. It is an important problem, as it involves computer vision and natural language processing, where computer vision is used for understanding images, and natural language processing is used for language modeling. A lot of works have been done for image captioning