Computer Sciences
An international research team has designed a deep learning system able to detect natural disasters using images posted on social media. The researchers applied computer vision tools that, once trained using 1.7 million photographs, ...
Jun 28, 2023
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Computer Sciences
An American University math professor and his team have created a statistical model that can be used to detect misinformation in social posts. The model also avoids the problem of black boxes that occur in machine learning.
Dec 2, 2021
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Computer Sciences
It seems like yet another punchline for anyone joking about the past two years of pandemic life. But to scientists forecasting future disease outbreaks, it's important data.
May 18, 2022
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Machine learning & AI
For some of the poorest countries on Earth, the COVID-19 pandemic has posed a life-or-death quandary: If people continue to work, the virus might spread unchecked. But if they have to stay at home to limit the contagion, ...
Jun 3, 2020
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Computer Sciences
Research published in the International Journal of Cloud Computing looks at how machine learning might allow us to analyze the nature and characteristics of social media updates and detect which of those updates are adding ...
Aug 11, 2022
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Internet
Big data is big, as it were, and the buzz phrase is often accompanied by associated terms such as data mining, machine learning, computational intelligence, the semantic web, and social networks. Research published in the ...
Jan 28, 2022
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Internet
In a first-of-its-kind effort, social media researchers from Drexel University, Vanderbilt University, Georgia Institute of Technology and Boston University are turning to young social media users to help build a machine ...
Apr 24, 2023
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Internet
We live in an era of too much information—an endless stream of status updates, memes, reposts, infographics, quotes and hashtags roll daily through our social media feeds, meant to express viewpoints, drum up solidarity, ...
Aug 8, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Dutch Royal Academy's Humanities Cluster evaluated four state-of-the-art tools for recognising names in text, to assess and improve their performance on popular fiction. ...
Apr 18, 2019
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Internet
A new machine learning tool, developed by University of Alberta computing scientists, sifts through millions of Twitter posts to help understand health and wellness trends in Alberta and across Canada.
Apr 2, 2019
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