scholarly journals Cyberbullying Detection: Hybrid Models Based on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing Techniques

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (22) ◽  
pp. 2810
Author(s):  
Chahat Raj ◽  
Ayush Agarwal ◽  
Gnana Bharathy ◽  
Bhuva Narayan ◽  
Mukesh Prasad
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Classification Methods ◽  
Cyberbullying Detection

The rise in web and social media interactions has resulted in the efortless proliferation of offensive language and hate speech. Such online harassment, insults, and attacks are commonly termed cyberbullying. The sheer volume of user-generated content has made it challenging to identify such illicit content. Machine learning has wide applications in text classification, and researchers are shifting towards using deep neural networks in detecting cyberbullying due to the several advantages they have over traditional machine learning algorithms. This paper proposes a novel neural network framework with parameter optimization and an algorithmic comparative study of eleven classification methods: four traditional machine learning and seven shallow neural networks on two real world cyberbullying datasets. In addition, this paper also examines the effect of feature extraction and word-embedding-techniques-based natural language processing on algorithmic performance. Key observations from this study show that bidirectional neural networks and attention models provide high classification results. Logistic Regression was observed to be the best among the traditional machine learning classifiers used. Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) demonstrates consistently high accuracies with traditional machine learning techniques. Global Vectors (GloVe) perform better with neural network models. Bi-GRU and Bi-LSTM worked best amongst the neural networks used. The extensive experiments performed on the two datasets establish the importance of this work by comparing eleven classification methods and seven feature extraction techniques. Our proposed shallow neural networks outperform existing state-of-the-art approaches for cyberbullying detection, with accuracy and F1-scores as high as ~95% and ~98%, respectively.

scholarly journals A Survey on Bias in Deep NLP

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 3184
Author(s):  
Ismael Garrido-Muñoz  ◽  
Arturo Montejo-Ráez  ◽  
Fernando Martínez-Santiago  ◽  
L. Alfonso Ureña-López 
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Probability Distribution ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Network Design ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Relevant Issue

Deep neural networks are hegemonic approaches to many machine learning areas, including natural language processing (NLP). Thanks to the availability of large corpora collections and the capability of deep architectures to shape internal language mechanisms in self-supervised learning processes (also known as “pre-training”), versatile and performing models are released continuously for every new network design. These networks, somehow, learn a probability distribution of words and relations across the training collection used, inheriting the potential flaws, inconsistencies and biases contained in such a collection. As pre-trained models have been found to be very useful approaches to transfer learning, dealing with bias has become a relevant issue in this new scenario. We introduce bias in a formal way and explore how it has been treated in several networks, in terms of detection and correction. In addition, available resources are identified and a strategy to deal with bias in deep NLP is proposed.

Prediction of Emergency Department Hospital Admission Based on Natural Language Processing and Neural Networks

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (05) ◽  
pp. 377-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingyu Zhang ◽  
Joyce Kim ◽  
Rachel E. Patzer ◽  
Stephen R. Pitts ◽  
Aaron Patzer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Emergency Department ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Hospital Admission ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Predictive Accuracy ◽  
Free Text

SummaryObjective: To describe and compare logistic regression and neural network modeling strategies to predict hospital admission or transfer following initial presentation to Emergency Department (ED) triage with and without the addition of natural language processing elements.Methods: Using data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS), a cross-sectional probability sample of United States EDs from 2012 and 2013 survey years, we developed several predictive models with the outcome being admission to the hospital or transfer vs. discharge home. We included patient characteristics immediately available after the patient has presented to the ED and undergone a triage process. We used this information to construct logistic regression (LR) and multilayer neural network models (MLNN) which included natural language processing (NLP) and principal component analysis from the patient’s reason for visit. Ten-fold cross validation was used to test the predictive capacity of each model and receiver operating curves (AUC) were then calculated for each model.Results: Of the 47,200 ED visits from 642 hospitals, 6,335 (13.42%) resulted in hospital admission (or transfer). A total of 48 principal components were extracted by NLP from the reason for visit fields, which explained 75% of the overall variance for hospitalization. In the model including only structured variables, the AUC was 0.824 (95% CI 0.818-0.830) for logistic regression and 0.823 (95% CI 0.817-0.829) for MLNN. Models including only free-text information generated AUC of 0.742 (95% CI 0.7310.753) for logistic regression and 0.753 (95% CI 0.742-0.764) for MLNN. When both structured variables and free text variables were included, the AUC reached 0.846 (95% CI 0.839-0.853) for logistic regression and 0.844 (95% CI 0.836-0.852) for MLNN.Conclusions: The predictive accuracy of hospital admission or transfer for patients who presented to ED triage overall was good, and was improved with the inclusion of free text data from a patient’s reason for visit regardless of modeling approach. Natural language processing and neural networks that incorporate patient-reported outcome free text may increase predictive accuracy for hospital admission.

scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Techniques for Spam Detection

2021 ◽  
pp. 657-661
Author(s):  
Rashida Ali ◽  
Ibrahim Rampurawala ◽  
Mayuri Wandhe ◽  
Ruchika Shrikhande ◽  
Arpita Bhatkar
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
High Volume ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Spam Detection ◽  
Learning Techniques

Internet provides a medium to connect with individuals of similar or different interests creating a hub. Since a huge hub participates on these platforms, the user can receive a high volume of messages from different individuals creating a chaos and unwanted messages. These messages sometimes contain a true information and sometimes false, which leads to a state of confusion in the minds of the users and leads to first step towards spam messaging. Spam messages means an irrelevant and unsolicited message sent by a known/unknown user which may lead to a sense of insecurity among users. In this paper, the different machine learning algorithms were trained and tested with natural language processing (NLP) to classify whether the messages are spam or ham.

scholarly journals Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Data of World Cup Soccer Tournament Using Machine Learning

IoT ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravikumar Patel ◽  
Kalpdrum Passi
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Random Forest ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
Twitter Data ◽  
Processing Techniques

In the derived approach, an analysis is performed on Twitter data for World Cup soccer 2014 held in Brazil to detect the sentiment of the people throughout the world using machine learning techniques. By filtering and analyzing the data using natural language processing techniques, sentiment polarity was calculated based on the emotion words detected in the user tweets. The dataset is normalized to be used by machine learning algorithms and prepared using natural language processing techniques like word tokenization, stemming and lemmatization, part-of-speech (POS) tagger, name entity recognition (NER), and parser to extract emotions for the textual data from each tweet. This approach is implemented using Python programming language and Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK). A derived algorithm extracts emotional words using WordNet with its POS (part-of-speech) for the word in a sentence that has a meaning in the current context, and is assigned sentiment polarity using the SentiWordNet dictionary or using a lexicon-based method. The resultant polarity assigned is further analyzed using naïve Bayes, support vector machine (SVM), K-nearest neighbor (KNN), and random forest machine learning algorithms and visualized on the Weka platform. Naïve Bayes gives the best accuracy of 88.17% whereas random forest gives the best area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (AUC) of 0.97.

scholarly journals Computerized Answer Grading

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (VI) ◽  
pp. 618-619
Author(s):  
Anurag Langan
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Computer Technology ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Grade Student ◽  
Processing Techniques

Grading student answers is a tedious and time-consuming task. A study had found that almost on average around 25% of a teacher's time is spent in scoring the answer sheets of students. This time could be utilized in much better ways if computer technology could be used to score answers. This system will aim to grade student answers using the various Natural Language processing techniques and Machine Learning algorithms available today.

scholarly journals Natural language processing and recurrent network models for identifying genomic mutation-associated cancer treatment change from patient progress notes

JAMIA Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meijian Guan ◽  
Samuel Cho ◽  
Robin Petro ◽  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Boris Pasche ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Treatment Change ◽  
Progress Notes

Abstract Objectives Natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning approaches were used to build classifiers to identify genomic-related treatment changes in the free-text visit progress notes of cancer patients. Methods We obtained 5889 deidentified progress reports (2439 words on average) for 755 cancer patients who have undergone a clinical next generation sequencing (NGS) testing in Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center for our data analyses. An NLP system was implemented to process the free-text data and extract NGS-related information. Three types of recurrent neural network (RNN) namely, gated recurrent unit, long short-term memory (LSTM), and bidirectional LSTM (LSTM_Bi) were applied to classify documents to the treatment-change and no-treatment-change groups. Further, we compared the performances of RNNs to 5 machine learning algorithms including Naive Bayes, K-nearest Neighbor, Support Vector Machine for classification, Random forest, and Logistic Regression. Results Our results suggested that, overall, RNNs outperformed traditional machine learning algorithms, and LSTM_Bi showed the best performance among the RNNs in terms of accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score. In addition, pretrained word embedding can improve the accuracy of LSTM by 3.4% and reduce the training time by more than 60%. Discussion and Conclusion NLP and RNN-based text mining solutions have demonstrated advantages in information retrieval and document classification tasks for unstructured clinical progress notes.

Deep Learning Approaches for Textual Sentiment Analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamanna Sharma ◽  
Anu Bajaj ◽  
Om Prakash Sangwan
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Computational Technique ◽  
Learning Techniques

Sentiment analysis is computational measurement of attitude, opinions, and emotions (like positive/negative) with the help of text mining and natural language processing of words and phrases. Incorporation of machine learning techniques with natural language processing helps in analysing and predicting the sentiments in more precise manner. But sometimes, machine learning techniques are incapable in predicting sentiments due to unavailability of labelled data. To overcome this problem, an advanced computational technique called deep learning comes into play. This chapter highlights latest studies regarding use of deep learning techniques like convolutional neural network, recurrent neural network, etc. in sentiment analysis.

Examination of fake news from a viral perspective: an interplay of emotions, resonance, and sentiments

2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Krishnadas Nanath ◽  
Supriya Kaitheri ◽  
Sonia Malik ◽  
Shahid Mustafa
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that significantly affect the prediction of fake news from the virality theory perspective. The paper looks at a mix of emotion-driven content, sentimental resonance, topic modeling and linguistic features of news articles to predict the probability of fake news. Design/methodology/approach A data set of over 12,000 articles was chosen to develop a model for fake news detection. Machine learning algorithms and natural language processing techniques were used to handle big data with efficiency. Lexicon-based emotion analysis provided eight kinds of emotions used in the article text. The cluster of topics was extracted using topic modeling (five topics), while sentiment analysis provided the resonance between the title and the text. Linguistic features were added to the coding outcomes to develop a logistic regression predictive model for testing the significant variables. Other machine learning algorithms were also executed and compared. Findings The results revealed that positive emotions in a text lower the probability of news being fake. It was also found that sensational content like illegal activities and crime-related content were associated with fake news. The news title and the text exhibiting similar sentiments were found to be having lower chances of being fake. News titles with more words and content with fewer words were found to impact fake news detection significantly. Practical implications Several systems and social media platforms today are trying to implement fake news detection methods to filter the content. This research provides exciting parameters from a viral theory perspective that could help develop automated fake news detectors. Originality/value While several studies have explored fake news detection, this study uses a new perspective on viral theory. It also introduces new parameters like sentimental resonance that could help predict fake news. This study deals with an extensive data set and uses advanced natural language processing to automate the coding techniques in developing the prediction model.

Detection of Cyberbullying on Social Media Using Machine learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1401-1409
Author(s):  
Mitta Roja
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Model Based

Abstract: Cyberbullying is a major problem encountered on internet that affects teenagers and also adults. It has lead to mishappenings like suicide and depression. Regulation of content on Social media platorms has become a growing need. The following study uses data from two different forms of cyberbullying, hate speech tweets from Twittter and comments based on personal attacks from Wikipedia forums to build a model based on detection of Cyberbullying in text data using Natural Language Processing and Machine learning. Threemethods for Feature extraction and four classifiers are studied to outline the best approach. For Tweet data the model provides accuracies above 90% and for Wikipedia data it givesaccuracies above 80%. Keywords: Cyberbullying, Hate speech, Personal attacks,Machine learning, Feature extraction, Twitter, Wikipedia

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