Blockchain application development has received much attention nowadays. As development is complex and challenging, a systematic approach is needed to improve the product, services, and process quality. Despite the introduction of techniques, there are ...

Development of fully featured Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems for a complete language vocabulary generally requires large data repositories, massive computing power, and a stable digital network infrastructure. These conditions are not met in ...

Human annotations can help indexing digital resources as well as improving search and recommendation systems. Human annotators may carry their bias and stereotypes in the labels they create when annotating digital content. These are then reflected in ...

With the rise in accessibility and popularity of various social media platforms, people have started expressing and communicating their ideas, opinions, and interests online. While these platforms are active sources of entertainment and idea-sharing, ...

Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC), a popular tool for automated text analysis, relies on an expert-crafted internal dictionary of psychologically relevant words and their corresponding categories. While LIWC’s dictionary covers a significant ...

Content Warning: This paper shows examples of explicit and offensive language that might be triggering. The main goal of this paper is to investigate the temporal shifts of attitudes about racism towards Asians using online social media posts. An ...

Our lives are ruled by events of varying importance ranging from simple everyday occurrences to incidents of societal dimension. And a lot of effort is taken to exchange information and discuss about such events: generally speaking, stringent narratives ...

Online social media works as a source of various valuable and actionable information during disasters. These information might be available in multiple languages due to the nature of user generated content. An effective system to automatically identify ...

The recent advances in natural language generation provide an additional tool to manipulate public opinion on social media. Even though there has not been any report of malicious exploit of the newest generative techniques so far, disturbing human-like ...

The phenomenon of misinformation spreading in social media has developed a new form of active citizens who focus on tackling the problem by refuting posts that might contain misinformation. Automatically identifying and characterizing the behavior of ...