Data Technologies and Applications: Volume 58 Issue 2

Savitar: an intelligent sign language translation approach for deafness and dysphonia in the COVID-19 era

Wuyan Liang, Xiaolong Xu

In the COVID-19 era, sign language (SL) translation has gained attention in online learning, which evaluates the physical gestures of each student and bridges the communication…

Performance prediction of multivariable linear regression based on the optimal influencing factors for ranking aggregation in crowdsourcing task

Yuping Xing, Yongzhao Zhan

For ranking aggregation in crowdsourcing task, the key issue is how to select the optimal working group with a given number of workers to optimize the performance of their…

Giving life to dead: role of WayBack Machine in recovery of dead URLs

Fayaz Ahmad Loan, Aasif Mohammad Khan, Syed Aasif Ahmad Andrabi, Sozia Rashid Sozia, Umer Yousuf Parray

The purpose of the present study is to identify the active and dead links of uniform resource locators (URLs) associated with web references and to compare the effectiveness of…

Blockchain solutions for scientific paper peer review: a systematic mapping of the literature

Allan Farias Fávaro, Roderval Marcelino, Cristian Cechinel

This paper presents a review of the state of the art on the application of blockchain and smart contracts to the peer-review process of scientific papers. The paper seeks to…

CA-CD: context-aware clickbait detection using new Chinese clickbait dataset with transfer learning method

Hei-Chia Wang, Martinus Maslim, Hung-Yu Liu

A clickbait is a deceptive headline designed to boost ad revenue without presenting closely relevant content. There are numerous negative repercussions of clickbait, such as…

Measuring land lot shapes for property valuation

Changro Lee

Unstructured data such as images have defied usage in property valuation for a long time. Instead, structured data in tabular format are commonly employed to estimate property…

Analysis of automated guided vehicles performance based on process mining techniques

Alejandro Ramos-Soto, Angel Dacal-Nieto, Gonzalo Martín Alcrudo, Gabriel Mosquera, Juan José Areal

Process mining has emerged in the last decade as one of the most promising tools to discover and understand the actual execution of processes. This paper addresses the application…

AsCDPR: a novel framework for ratings and personalized preference hotel recommendation using cross-domain and aspect-based features

Hei-Chia Wang, Army Justitia, Ching-Wen Wang

The explosion of data due to the sophistication of information and communication technology makes it simple for prospective tourists to learn about previous hotel guests'…

Analyzing audiovisual data for understanding user's emotion in human−computer interaction environment

Juan Yang, Zhenkun Li, Xu Du

Although numerous signal modalities are available for emotion recognition, audio and visual modalities are the most common and predominant forms for human beings to express their…