Academic Articles & Research Papers

Reinforcement learning with learned gadgets to tackle hard quantum problems on real hardware

Abstract Quantum computing offers exciting opportunities for simulating complex quantum systems and optimizing large-scale combinatorial problems, but its practical use is limited by device noise and constrained connectivity. Designing quan...

DEVELOPMENT OF STEM-BASED DIGITAL POCKETBOOK ON SPLDV MATERIAL USING THE ADDIE MODEL: APPLICATION IN ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

This study aims to assess the feasibility, teacher and student responses, and effectiveness of the STEM-based digital pocketbook on the topic of Systems of Linear Equations in Two Variables (SPLDV). The subjects of this research were junior...

Outdoor access practices in the Canadian dairy industry

ABSTRACT: Dairy cows are highly motivated to access pasture and have a partial preference for alternative forms of outdoor access (e.g., deep-bedded outdoor sand or wood-chip packs). In addition, Canadians value the provision of outdoor acc...

A Secure, Intelligent, and Smart-Sensing Approach for Industrial System Automation and Transmission over Unsecured Wireless Networks

In Industrial systems, Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, the pseudo-transport layer of the distributed network protocol (DNP3) performs the functions of the transport layer and network layer of the open systems interc...

A Fully Adapted Headstage With Custom Electrode Arrays Designed for Electrophysiological Experiments

Electrophysiological recordings lead amongst the techniques that aim to investigate the dynamics of neural activity sampled from large neural ensembles. However, the financial costs associated with the state-of-the-art technology used to ma...

A study on process information-driven cyber threat detection for I&C systems in NPP

The increasing digitalization of Instrumentation and Control (I&C) systems in Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) has improved operational efficiency while introducing cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Conventional network-based intrusion detection sy...

Computational linguistics and discourse complexology: Paradigms and research methods

The dramatic expansion of modern linguistic research and enhanced accuracy of linguistic analysis have become a reality due to the ability of artificial neural networks not only to learn and adapt, but also carry out automate linguistic ana...

Bias and Fairness in Natural Language Processing

Recent advances in data-driven machine learning techniques (e.g., deep neural networks) have revolutionized many natural language processing applications. These approaches automatically learn how to make decisions based on the statistics an...

D‐BERT: Incorporating dependency‐based attention into BERT for relation extraction

Abstract Relation extraction between entity pairs is an increasingly critical area in natural language processing. Recently, the pre‐trained bidirectional encoder representation from transformer (BERT) performs excellently on the text class...

A call for an interdisciplinary ethical foundation for GenAI governance in higher education

Abstract Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) systems are increasingly embedded in higher education, shaping writing, instructional design, and institutional approaches to academic integrity. In response, universities have developed p...

Unlocking Clinical Data from Narrative Reports: A Study of Natural Language Processing

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the automated detection of clinical conditions described in narrative reports. DESIGN: Automated methods and human experts detected the presence or absence of six clinical conditions in 200 admission chest radiograph ...

Application of Convolutional Neural Network in Natural Language Processing

Convolutional neural network (Convolutionl Neural Network, CNN) is a multiple-layer neural network method to learn hierarchical characteristic of data. In recent years, CNN has developed rapidly in the design and calculation of natural lang...

Design and formative usability evaluation of a prototype integrated digital health platform for chronic care support.

Seeing and Thinking about Urban Blue–Green Space: Monitoring Public Landscape Preferences Using Bimodal Data

Urban blue–green spaces (UBGSs) are a significant avenue for addressing the worldwide mental health crisis. To effectively optimise landscape design and management for the promotion of health benefits from UBGS, it is crucial to objectively...

A comparative empirical evaluation of semantic clustering algorithms on static word embeddings

Objective: This study conducts a comprehensive empirical evaluation of semantic clustering algorithms to identify the most effective approach for automatically organizing and extracting meaning from textual data. By systematically comparing...

Semantic Alignment in Disciplinary Tutoring System: Leveraging Sentence Transformer Technology

In this work, we present a disciplinary e-tutoring system that integrates ONTO-TDM, an ontology designed for teaching domain modeling, with advanced transformer technology. Our primary objective is to enhance semantic similarity tasks withi...

Transformer-Based Approach for Solving Mathematical Problems Using Automatic Speech Recognition

In this paper, we introduce Vox Calculi, a system designed to solve mathematical problems using voice transcriptions. By leveraging state-of-the-art pretrained Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models, we accurately transcribe users&#x2019...

Machine Unlearning: A Perspective, Taxonomy, and Benchmark Evaluation

Machine Learning (ML) models trained on large-scale datasets learn useful predictive patterns, but they may also memorize undesired information, leading to risks such as information leakage, bias, copyright violations, and privacy attacks. ...

On memory limitations in natural language processing

This paper proposes a welcome hypothesis: a computationally simple device is sufficient for processing natural language. Traditionally it has been argued that processing natural language syntax requires very powerful machinery. Many enginee...

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...