Academic Articles & Research Papers

Assessing perception and equity of cultural ecosystem services in urban parks using social media data

Abstract Scientific assessment of cultural ecosystem services (CESs) levels in urban parks and refined analysis of their spatial equity are essential for residents’ social well-being. However, traditional assessment methods often fail to ca...

Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling of Indonesian Public Conversation about COVID-19 Epidemics on Twitter

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in more than six million confirmed cases and more than 371,000 deaths globally on June 1, 2020. The incident sparked a flood of scientific research to help soci...

Is ChatGPT a General-Purpose Natural Language Processing Task Solver?

Spurred by advancements in scale, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the ability to perform a variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks zero-shot-i.e., without adaptation on downstream data.Recently, the debut of ChatGP...

Inheritance in natural language processing

In this introduction to the special issues, we begin by outlining a concrete example that indicates some of the motivations leading to the widespread use of inheritance networks in computational linguistics. This example allows us to illust...

Decolonizing Algorithms: AI-Driven Media and the Reclamation of African Linguistic Identities

This study examines the influence of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven media platforms on South Africa's indigenous languages—Setswana, Tshivenda, and Xitsonga—in the country's diverse linguistic environment. It examines how algorithmic b...

Data augmentation techniques in natural language processing

Data Augmentation (DA) methods – a family of techniques designed for synthetic generation of training data – have shown remarkable results in various Deep Learning and Machine Learning tasks. Despite its widespread and successful adoption w...

Menstrual Health Education Using a Specialized Large Language Model in India: Development and Evaluation Study of MenstLLaMA

Abstract BackgroundThe quality and accessibility of menstrual health education (MHE) in low- and middle-income countries, including India, remain inadequate due to persistent challenges (eg, poverty, social stigma, and gender in...

Natural language processing for information assurance and security

This research paper explores a promising interface between natural language processing (NLP) and information assurance and security (IAS). More specificall~ it is devoted to possible applications to, and further dedicated development of, th...

On the Explainability of Natural Language Processing Deep Models

Despite their success, deep networks are used as black-box models with outputs that are not easily explainable during the learning and the prediction phases. This lack of interpretability is significantly limiting the adoption of such model...

Domain-Specific Language Model Pretraining for Biomedical Natural Language Processing

Pretraining large neural language models, such as BERT, has led to impressive gains on many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, most pretraining efforts focus on general domain corpora, such as newswire and Web. A prevailing a...

Particulate Matter Pollution in an Agricultural Setting: A Community-Engaged Research Study.

Peppermint oil exhibits antispasmodic and anti-inflammatory properties and alters gut microbial community composition and gas production in vitro.

Using 311 data to develop an algorithm to identify urban blight for public health improvement.

The growth of administrative data made available publicly, often in near-real time, offers new opportunities for monitoring conditions that impact community health. Urban blight-manifestations of adverse social processes in the urban enviro...

Cracking the code: AI’s role in mapping evidence syntheses to the United Nations sustainable development goals

Abstract Background Understanding the alignment and contributions of research to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) is essential for guiding global progress toward these critical targets. Several SDG mapping approach...

Datasets: A Community Library for Natural Language Processing

Quentin Lhoest, Albert Villanova del Moral, Yacine Jernite, Abhishek Thakur, Patrick von Platen, Suraj Patil, Julien Chaumond, Mariama Drame, Julien Plu, Lewis Tunstall, Joe Davison, Mario Šaško, Gunjan Chhablani, Bhavitvya Malik, Simon Bra...

HuggingFace's Transformers: State-of-the-art Natural Language Processing

Recent progress in natural language processing has been driven by advances in both model architecture and model pretraining. Transformer architectures have facilitated building higher-capacity models and pretraining has made it possible to ...

Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering

Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering (NLP4RE) is an area of research and development that seeks to apply natural language processing (NLP) techniques, tools, and resources to the requirements engineering (RE) process, to...

Costs, compensations, and community building of implicit prosocial behavior in college dormitory environments: a mixed-methods study.

A review of computer vision–based structural health monitoring at local and global levels

Structural health monitoring at local and global levels using computer vision technologies has gained much attention in the structural health monitoring community in research and practice. Due to the computer vision technology application a...

A survey of public datasets for computer vision tasks in precision agriculture

Computer vision technologies have attracted significant interest in precision agriculture in recent years. At the core of robotics and artificial intelligence, computer vision enables various tasks from planting to harvesting in the crop pr...