Data Technologies and Applications: Volume 56 Issue 1

Applying sentiment analytics to examine social media crises: a case study of United Airline's crisis in 2017

Xin Tian, Wu He, Feng-Kwei Wang

In recent years, social media crises occurred more and more often, which negatively affect the reputations of individuals, businesses and communities. During each crisis, numerous…

Content analysis-based documentation and exploration of research articles

Shwe Sin Phyo

With the wealth of information available on the World Wide Web, it is difficult for anyone from a general user to the researcher to easily fulfill their information need. The main…

Transfer learning for hostel image classification

Chanattra Ammatmanee, Lu Gan

Because of the fast-growing digital image collections on online platforms and the transfer learning ability of deep learning technology, image classification could be improved and…

An assessment of noise variance estimations in Bayes threshold denoising under stationary wavelet domain on brain lesions and tumor MRIs

Papangkorn Pidchayathanakorn, Siriporn Supratid

A major key success factor regarding proficient Bayes threshold denoising refers to noise variance estimation. This paper focuses on assessing different noise variance estimations…

Conversational interfaces for unconventional access to business relational data structures

Pavel Kostelník, František Dařena

Current possibilities of accessing business data by regular users usually involve complicated user interfaces or require technical expertise. This results in situations when…

Taylor-rider-based deep convolutional neural network for image forgery detection in 3D lighting environment

V. Vinolin, M. Sucharitha

With the advancements in photo editing software, it is possible to generate fake images, degrading the trust in digital images. Forged images, which appear like authentic images…

Constructing economic taxonomy reflecting firm relationships based on news reports

Zhi Zhou, Xiangming Mu, Xin Lin

This paper aims to propose a novel approach to constructing an economic taxonomy that demonstrates the complex relationships between firms, which are not fully revealed by…

Contour- and Texture-based analysis for victim identification in forensic odontology

G. Jaffino, J. Prabin Jose

Forensic dentistry is the application of dentistry in legal proceedings that arise from any facts relating to teeth. The ultimate goal of forensic odontology is to identify the…