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View article: Mapping the Infodemic: Geolocating Reddit Users and Unsupervised Topic Modeling of COVID-19-Related Misinformation
Mapping the Infodemic: Geolocating Reddit Users and Unsupervised Topic Modeling of COVID-19-Related Misinformation Open
The problem of geolocating Reddit users without access to the author information API is tackled in this study. Using subreddit data, we analyzed and identified user location based on their interactions within location-specific subreddits. …
View article: Opioid Crisis Detection in Social Media Discourse Using Deep Learning Approach
Opioid Crisis Detection in Social Media Discourse Using Deep Learning Approach Open
The opioid drug overdose death rate remains a significant public health crisis in the U.S., where an opioid epidemic has led to a dramatic rise in overdose deaths over the past two decades. Since 1999, opioids have been implicated in appro…
View article: Effects of Cold Pack Application with Contrast Hydrotherapy on Patients Suffering from Knee Pain Due to Osteoarthritis
Effects of Cold Pack Application with Contrast Hydrotherapy on Patients Suffering from Knee Pain Due to Osteoarthritis Open
Background: Knee osteoarthritis is a prevalent degenerative condition characterized by chronic pain and functional limitation. While thermotherapy and cryotherapy are widely used non-pharmacological interventions, direct comparative eviden…
View article: Optimism, Expectation, or Sarcasm? Multi-Class Hope Speech Detection in Spanish and English
Optimism, Expectation, or Sarcasm? Multi-Class Hope Speech Detection in Spanish and English Open
Hope is a complex and underexplored emotional state that plays a significant role in education, mental health, and social interaction. Unlike basic emotions, hope manifests in nuanced forms ranging from grounded optimism to exaggerated wis…
View article: Advanced Brain Tumor Segmentation Using SAM2-UNet
Advanced Brain Tumor Segmentation Using SAM2-UNet Open
Image segmentation is one of the key factors in diagnosing glioma patients with brain tumors. It helps doctors identify the types of tumor that a patient is carrying and will lead to a prognosis that will help save the lives of patients. T…
View article: AI and Big Data approaches to addressing the opioid crisis: a scoping review protocol
AI and Big Data approaches to addressing the opioid crisis: a scoping review protocol Open
Introduction This paper outlines the steps necessary to assess the latest developments in artificial intelligence (AI) as well as Big Data technologies and their relevance to the opioid crisis. Fatal opioid overdoses have risen to over 82 …
View article: An interpretable machine learning framework for opioid overdose surveillance from emergency medical services records
An interpretable machine learning framework for opioid overdose surveillance from emergency medical services records Open
The goal of this study is to develop and validate a lightweight, interpretable machine learning (ML) classifier to identify opioid overdoses in emergency medical services (EMS) records. We conducted a comparative assessment of three featur…
View article: GuReT: Distinguishing Guilt and Regret related Text
GuReT: Distinguishing Guilt and Regret related Text Open
The intricate relationship between human decision-making and emotions, particularly guilt and regret, has significant implications on behavior and well-being. Yet, these emotions subtle distinctions and interplay are often overlooked in co…
View article: UrduFake@FIRE2020: Shared Track on Fake News Identification in Urdu
UrduFake@FIRE2020: Shared Track on Fake News Identification in Urdu Open
This paper gives the overview of the first shared task at FIRE 2020 on fake news detection in the Urdu language. This is a binary classification task in which the goal is to identify fake news using a dataset composed of 900 annotated news…
View article: Overview of Abusive and Threatening Language Detection in Urdu at FIRE 2021
Overview of Abusive and Threatening Language Detection in Urdu at FIRE 2021 Open
With the growth of social media platform influence, the effect of their misuse becomes more and more impactful. The importance of automatic detection of threatening and abusive language can not be overestimated. However, most of the existi…
View article: UrduFake@FIRE2021: Shared Track on Fake News Identification in Urdu
UrduFake@FIRE2021: Shared Track on Fake News Identification in Urdu Open
This study reports the second shared task named as UrduFake@FIRE2021 on identifying fake news detection in Urdu language. This is a binary classification problem in which the task is to classify a given news article into two classes: (i) r…
View article: Review of: "Skin related health issues among health care workers due to utilizing of personal protective equipment during COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan"
Review of: "Skin related health issues among health care workers due to utilizing of personal protective equipment during COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan" Open
Please re-write your abstract and conclusion, and make them aligned to the problem statement (write in clear manner), and then highlight your contributions on how
View article: Overview of the Shared Task on Fake News Detection in Urdu at FIRE 2021
Overview of the Shared Task on Fake News Detection in Urdu at FIRE 2021 Open
Automatic detection of fake news is a highly important task in the contemporary world. This study reports the 2nd shared task called UrduFake@FIRE2021 on identifying fake news detection in Urdu. The goal of the shared task is to motivate t…
View article: Prediction of Pile Bearing Capacity Using XGBoost Algorithm: Modeling and Performance Evaluation
Prediction of Pile Bearing Capacity Using XGBoost Algorithm: Modeling and Performance Evaluation Open
The major criteria that control pile foundation design is pile bearing capacity (Pu). The load bearing capacity of piles is affected by the various characteristics of soils and the involvement of multiple parameters related to both soil an…
View article: Prediction of Liquefaction-Induced Lateral Displacements Using Gaussian Process Regression
Prediction of Liquefaction-Induced Lateral Displacements Using Gaussian Process Regression Open
During severe earthquakes, liquefaction-induced lateral displacement causes significant damage to designed structures. As a result, geotechnical specialists must accurately estimate lateral displacement in liquefaction-prone areas in order…
View article: Automatic Abusive Language Detection in Urdu Tweets
Automatic Abusive Language Detection in Urdu Tweets Open
Abusive language detection is an essential task in our modern times.Multiple studies have reported this task, in various languages, because it is essential to validate methods in many different languages.In this paper, we address the autom…
View article: Survey of Fake News Datasets and Detection Methods in European and Asian Languages
Survey of Fake News Datasets and Detection Methods in European and Asian Languages Open
The presence of fake news and "alternative facts" across the web is a global phenomenon that received considerable attention in recent years.Several researchers have made substantial efforts to automatically identify fake news articles bas…
View article: Analysis and Design of Piled Raft Foundation Taking into Account Interaction Factors
Analysis and Design of Piled Raft Foundation Taking into Account Interaction Factors Open
In a combined piled raft foundation (CPRF) both raft and piles take their share of the total load applied. However, in practice, the contribution of a raft in taking load is usually ignored and the load is assumed to be supported on piles.…
View article: Supervised Learning Methods for Modeling Concrete Compressive Strength Prediction at High Temperature
Supervised Learning Methods for Modeling Concrete Compressive Strength Prediction at High Temperature Open
Supervised learning algorithms are a recent trend for the prediction of mechanical properties of concrete. This paper presents AdaBoost, random forest (RF), and decision tree (DT) models for predicting the compressive strength of concrete …
View article: Threatening Language Detection and Target Identification in Urdu Tweets
Threatening Language Detection and Target Identification in Urdu Tweets Open
Automatic detection of threatening language is an important task, however, most of the existing studies focused on English as the target language, with limited work on low-resource languages. In this paper, we introduce and release a new d…
View article: A distinct approach to diagnose Dengue Fever with the help of Soft Set Theory
A distinct approach to diagnose Dengue Fever with the help of Soft Set Theory Open
Mathematics has played a substantial role to revolutionize the medical science. Intelligent systems based on mathematical theories have proved to be efficient in diagnosing various diseases. In this paper, we used an expert system based on…