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10Election Prediction on Twitter: A Systematic Mapping StudyComplexity 2021 1-27. 2021.Context. Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter carry a big load of people’s opinions about politics and leaders, which makes them a good source of information for researchers to exploit different tasks that include election predictions. Objective. Identify, categorize, and present a comprehensive overview of the approaches, techniques, and tools used in election predictions on Twitter. Method. Conducted a systematic mapping study on election predictions on Twitter and provided empi…Read more
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22ABioNER: A BERT-Based Model for Arabic Biomedical Named-Entity RecognitionComplexity 2021 1-6. 2021.The web is being loaded daily with a huge volume of data, mainly unstructured textual data, which increases the need for information extraction and NLP systems significantly. Named-entity recognition task is a key step towards efficiently understanding text data and saving time and effort. Being a widely used language globally, English is taking over most of the research conducted in this field, especially in the biomedical domain. Unlike other languages, Arabic suffers from lack of resources. T…Read more
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58Investigating Tree Family Machine Learning Techniques for a Predictive System to Unveil Software DefectsComplexity 2020 1-21. 2020.Software defects prediction at the initial period of the software development life cycle remains a critical and important assignment. Defect prediction and correctness leads to the assurance of the quality of software systems and has remained integral to study in the previous years. The quick forecast of imperfect or defective modules in software development can serve the development squad to use the existing assets competently and effectively to provide remarkable software products in a given s…Read more
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18USAD: An Intelligent System for Slang and Abusive Text Detection in PERSO-Arabic-Scripted UrduComplexity 2020 1-7. 2020.The use of slang, abusive, and offensive language has become common practice on social media. Even though social media companies have censorship polices for slang, abusive, vulgar, and offensive language, due to limited resources and research in the automatic detection of abusive language mechanisms other than English, this condemnable act is still practiced. This study proposes USAD, a lexicon-based intelligent framework to detect abusive and slang words in Perso-Arabic-scripted Urdu Tweets. Fu…Read more
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17Status of healthcare studies submitted to UK research ethics committees for approval in 2004–5Journal of Medical Ethics 34 (5): 393-395. 2008.Background: In view of the increasing complexity of research ethics committee applications and thus the time and expense involved in completing the forms, continual monitoring of outcome of clinical research studies for which ethics applications have been submitted is essential in determining whether resources are being effectively used, or alternatively whether significant numbers of research proposals are abandoned because of lack of funding or manpower. Previously published surveys for which …Read more
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