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List of Papers (Total 176)

Time-optimal and privacy preserving route planning for carpool policy

To alleviate the traffic congestion caused by the sharp increase in the number of private cars and save commuting costs, taxi carpooling service has become the choice of many people. Current research on taxi carpooling services has focused on shortening the detour distances. While with the development of intelligent cities, efficiently match passengers and vehicles and planning...

Token replacement-based data augmentation methods for hate speech detection

Hate speech detection mostly involves the use of text data. This data, usually sourced from various social media platforms, have been known to be plagued with numerous issues that result in a reduction of its quality and hence, the quality of the trained models. Some of these issues are the lack of diversity and the diminutive class of interest in the dataset which results in...

Event prediction from news text using subgraph embedding and graph sequence mining

Event detection from textual content by using text mining concepts is a well-researched field in the literature. On the other hand, graph modeling and graph embedding techniques in recent years provide an opportunity to represent textual contents as graphs. Text can be enriched with additional attributes in graphs, and the complex relationships can be captured within the graphs...

Sentiment analysis and topic modeling for COVID-19 vaccine discussions

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been ongoing for almost two years and has had an unprecedented impact on the daily lives of people around the world. More recently, the emergence of the Delta variant of COVID-19 has once again put the world at risk. Fortunately, many countries and companies have developed vaccines for the coronavirus. As of 23 August...

bi-directional Bayesian probabilistic model based hybrid grained semantic matchmaking for Web service discovery

Web service discovery is a fundamental task in service-oriented architectures which searches for suitable web services based on users’ goals and preferences. In this paper, we present a novel service discovery approach that can support user queries with various-size-grained text elements. Compared with existing approaches that only support semantics matchmaking in single texture...

Graph embeddings in criminal investigation: towards combining precision, generalization and transparency

Criminal investigation adopts Artificial Intelligence to enhance the volume of the facts that can be investigated and documented in trials. However, the abstract reasoning implied in legal justification and argumentation requests to adopt solutions providing high precision, low generalization error, and retrospective transparency. Three requirements that hardly coexist in today’s...

Polarity-based graph neural network for sign prediction in signed bipartite graphs

As a fundamental data structure, graphs are ubiquitous in various applications. Among all types of graphs, signed bipartite graphs contain complex structures with positive and negative links as well as bipartite settings, on which conventional graph analysis algorithms are no longer applicable. Previous works mainly focus on unipartite signed graphs or unsigned bipartite graphs...

Bipartite graph capsule network

Graphs have been widely adopted in various fields, where many graph models are developed. Most of previous research focuses on unipartite or homogeneous graph analysis. In this graphs, the relationships between the same type of entities are preserved in the graphs. Meanwhile, the bipartite graphs that model the complex relationships among different entities with vertices...

Explainable depression detection with multi-aspect features using a hybrid deep learning model on social media

The ability to explain why the model produced results in such a way is an important problem, especially in the medical domain. Model explainability is important for building trust by providing insight into the model prediction. However, most existing machine learning methods provide no explainability, which is worrying. For instance, in the task of automatic depression prediction...

API-GNN: attribute preserving oriented interactive graph neural network

Attributed graph embedding aims to learn node representation based on the graph topology and node attributes. The current mainstream GNN-based methods learn the representation of the target node by aggregating the attributes of its neighbor nodes. These methods still face two challenges: (1) In the neighborhood aggregation procedure, the attributes of each node would be...

Fast datalog evaluation for batch and stream graph processing

Implementing complex algorithms for big data, artificial intelligence, and graph processing requires enormous effort. Succinct, declarative programs to solve complex problems that can be efficiently executed for batching and streaming data are in demand. This paper presents Nexus, a distributed Datalog evaluation system. It evaluates Datalog programs using the semi-naive...

CrowdMed-II: a blockchain-based framework for efficient consent management in health data sharing

The healthcare industry faces serious problems with health data. Firstly, health data is fragmented and its quality needs to be improved. Data fragmentation means that it is difficult to integrate the patient data stored by multiple health service providers. The quality of these heterogeneous data also needs to be improved for better utilization. Secondly, data sharing among...

A lightweight automatic sleep staging method for children using single-channel EEG based on edge artificial intelligence

With the development of telemedicine and edge computing, edge artificial intelligence (AI) will become a new development trend for smart medicine. On the other hand, nearly one-third of children suffer from sleep disorders. However, all existing sleep staging methods are for adults. Therefore, we adapted edge AI to develop a lightweight automatic sleep staging method for children...

Enhancing decision-making in user-centered web development: a methodology for card-sorting analysis

The World Wide Web has become a common platform for interactive software development. Most web applications feature custom user interfaces used by millions of people every day. Information architecture addresses the structural design of information to build quality web applications with improved usability of content, navigation, and findability. One of the most frequently...

EmoChannel-SA: exploring emotional dependency towards classification task with self-attention mechanism

Exploiting hand-crafted lexicon knowledge to enhance emotional or sentimental features at word-level has become a widely adopted method in emotion-relevant classification studies. However, few attempts have been made to explore the emotion construction in the classification task, which provides insights to how a sentence’s emotion is constructed. The major challenge of exploring...

RoleSim*: Scaling axiomatic role-based similarity ranking on large graphs

RoleSim and SimRank are among the popular graph-theoretic similarity measures with many applications in, e.g., web search, collaborative filtering, and sociometry. While RoleSim addresses the automorphic (role) equivalence of pairwise similarity which SimRank lacks, it ignores the neighboring similarity information out of the automorphically equivalent set. Consequently, two...

Data privacy preservation algorithm with k-anonymity

With growing concern of data privacy violations, privacy preservation processes become more intense. The k-anonymity method, a widely applied technique, transforms the data such that the publishing datasets must have at least k tuples to have the same link-able attribute, quasi-identifiers, values. From the observations, we found that, in a certain domain, all quasi-identifiers...

To hop or not, that is the question: Towards effective multi-hop reasoning over knowledge graphs

With the proliferation of large-scale knowledge graphs (KGs), multi-hop knowledge graph reasoning has been a capstone that enables machines to be able to handle intelligent tasks, especially where some explicit reasoning path is appreciated for decision making. To train a KG reasoner, supervised learning-based methods suffer from false-negative issues, i.e., unseen paths during...

A customisable pipeline for the semi-automated discovery of online activists and social campaigns on Twitter

Substantial research is available on detecting influencers on social media platforms. In contrast, comparatively few studies exists on the role of online activists, defined informally as users who actively participate in socially-minded online campaigns. Automatically discovering activists who can potentially be approached by organisations that promote social campaigns is...