Yeferson Torres-Berru^1,2,*, Vivian F. Lopez-Batista¹, Lorena Conde Zhingre³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.3, pp. 3501-3516, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.035367 - 15 March 2023

Abstract In a public procurement process, corruption can occur at each stage, favoring a participant with a previous agreement, which can result in over-pricing and purchases of substandard products, as well as gender discrimination. This paper’s aim is to detect biased purchases using a Spanish Language corpus, analyzing text from the questions and answers registry platform by applicants in a public procurement process in Ecuador. Additionally, gender bias is detected, promoting both men and women to participate under the same conditions. In order to detect gender bias and favoritism towards certain providers by contracting entities, the… More >

M. F. Mridha¹, Zabir Mohammad², Muhammad Mohsin Kabir², Aklima Akter Lima², Sujoy Chandra Das², Md Rashedul Islam^3,*, Yutaka Watanobe⁴

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.2, pp. 2059-2073, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.032977 - 09 February 2023

Abstract The writer identification system identifies individuals based on their handwriting is a frequent topic in biometric authentication and verification systems. Due to its importance, numerous studies have been conducted in various languages. Researchers have established several learning methods for writer identification including supervised and unsupervised learning. However, supervised methods require a large amount of annotation data, which is impossible in most scenarios. On the other hand, unsupervised writer identification methods may be limited and dependent on feature extraction that cannot provide the proper objectives to the architecture and be misinterpreted. This paper introduces an unsupervised… More >

Umamaheswari Ramalingam^1,*, Senthil Kumar Murugesan², Karthikeyan Lakshmanan², Chidhambararajan Balasubramaniyan³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.2, pp. 1733-1744, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.032108 - 05 January 2023

Abstract A Deep Neural Sentiment Classification Network (DNSCN) is developed in this work to classify the Twitter data unambiguously. It attempts to extract the negative and positive sentiments in the Twitter database. The main goal of the system is to find the sentiment behavior of tweets with minimum ambiguity. A well-defined neural network extracts deep features from the tweets automatically. Before extracting features deeper and deeper, the text in each tweet is represented by Bag-of-Words (BoW) and Word Embeddings (WE) models. The effectiveness of DNSCN architecture is analyzed using Twitter-Sanders-Apple2 (TSA2), Twitter-Sanders-Apple3 (TSA3), and Twitter-DataSet (TDS).… More >

V. Harshini¹, T. Dhanwin¹, A. Shahina^1,*, N. Safiyyah², A. Nayeemulla Khan²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.45, No.2, pp. 1851-1867, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.028136 - 03 November 2022

Abstract Biometrics, which has become integrated with our daily lives, could fall prey to falsification attacks, leading to security concerns. In our paper, we use Transient Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions (TEOAE) that are generated by the human cochlea in response to an external sound stimulus, as a biometric modality. TEOAE are robust to falsification attacks, as the uniqueness of an individual’s inner ear cannot be impersonated. In this study, we use both the raw 1D TEOAE signals, as well as the 2D time-frequency representation of the signal using Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT). We use 1D and 2D… More >

Amira Hamed Abo-Elghit^1,*, Taher Hamza¹, Aya Al-Zoghby²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 1967-1994, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025353 - 24 February 2022

Abstract Nowadays, we can use the multi-task learning approach to train a machine-learning algorithm to learn multiple related tasks instead of training it to solve a single task. In this work, we propose an algorithm for estimating textual similarity scores and then use these scores in multiple tasks such as text ranking, essay grading, and question answering systems. We used several vectorization schemes to represent the Arabic texts in the SemEval2017-task3-subtask-D dataset. The used schemes include lexical-based similarity features, frequency-based features, and pre-trained model-based features. Also, we used contextual-based embedding models such as Arabic Bidirectional Encoder… More >

Ramsha Saeed¹, Saddaf Rubab¹, Sara Asif¹, Malik M. Khan¹, Saeed Murtaza¹, Seifedine Kadry², Yunyoung Nam^3,*, Muhammad Attique Khan^4,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.127, No.2, pp. 533-547, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.014355 - 19 April 2021

Abstract The substantial competition among the news industries puts editors under the pressure of posting news articles which are likely to gain more user attention. Anticipating the popularity of news articles can help the editorial teams in making decisions about posting a news article. Article similarity extracted from the articles posted within a small period of time is found to be a useful feature in existing popularity prediction approaches. This work proposes a new approach to estimate the popularity of news articles by adding semantics in the article similarity based approach of popularity estimation. A semantically More >