Mohammad Alamgeer¹, Fahd N. Al-Wesabi^2,3,*, Huda G. Iskandar^3,4, Imran Khan⁵, Nadhem Nemri⁶, Mohammad Medani⁶, Mohammed Abdullah Al-Hagery⁷, Ali Mohammed Al-Sharafi^3,8

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.2, pp. 2497-2513, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.018591

Abstract Content authentication, integrity verification, and tampering detection of digital content exchanged via the internet have been used to address a major concern in information and communication technology. In this paper, a text zero-watermarking approach known as Smart-Fragile Approach based on Soft Computing and Digital Watermarking (SFASCDW) is proposed for content authentication and tampering detection of English text. A first-level order of alphanumeric mechanism, based on hidden Markov model, is integrated with digital zero-watermarking techniques to improve the watermark robustness of the proposed approach. The researcher uses the first-level order and alphanumeric mechanism of Markov model as a soft computing technique… More >

Nurul Husna Mahadzir¹, Mohd Faizal Omar², Mohd Nasrun Mohd Nawi^3,*, Anas A. Salameh⁴, Kasmaruddin Che Hussin⁵, Abid Sohail⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.1, pp. 1789-1805, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.021131

Abstract Currently, the sentiment analysis research in the Malaysian context lacks in terms of the availability of the sentiment lexicon. Thus, this issue is addressed in this paper in order to enhance the accuracy of sentiment analysis. In this study, a new lexicon for sentiment analysis is constructed. A detailed review of existing approaches has been conducted, and a new bilingual sentiment lexicon known as MELex (Malay-English Lexicon) has been generated. Constructing MELex involves three activities: seed words selection, polarity assignment, and synonym expansions. Our approach differs from previous works in that MELex can analyze text for the two most widely… More >

Hussien Mohamad Alakrash, Norizan Abdul Razak^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.1, pp. 951-962, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.014288

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted educators to rethink educational practices, especially with regard to technology. The COVID-19 pandemic is a huge challenge to education systems around the world. This Viewpoint offers guidance to teachers, institutional heads, and officials on addressing the crisis. This study investigated technology use in teaching during the COVID-19 lockdown in Malaysia, focusing on technology-based teaching methods, modifications necessitated by this new teaching style, and challenges teachers faced when using technology. Using purposive sampling, a qualitative study was undertaken with a sample of 10 English language teachers from Arabic schools in Malaysia. The results indicated that a… More >

S. Lalitha¹, Deepa Gupta^2,*, Mohammed Zakariah³, Yousef Ajami Alotaibi³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3217-3238, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018406

Abstract Automatic recognition of human emotions in a continuous dialog model remains challenging where a speaker’s utterance includes several sentences that may not always carry a single emotion. Limited work with standalone speech emotion recognition (SER) systems proposed for continuous speech only has been reported. In the recent decade, various effective SER systems have been proposed for discrete speech, i.e., short speech phrases. It would be more helpful if these systems could also recognize emotions from continuous speech. However, if these systems are applied directly to test emotions from continuous speech, emotion recognition performance would not be similar to that achieved… More >

Nadia Tabassum¹, Tahir Alyas², Muhammad Hamid^3,*, Muhammad Saleem⁴, Saadia Malik⁵, Zain Ali², Umer Farooq²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.30, No.1, pp. 175-186, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.018998

Abstract Development in the field of opinion mining and sentiment analysis has been rapid and aims to explore views or texts on various social media sites through machine-learning techniques with the sentiment, subjectivity analysis and calculations of polarity. Sentiment analysis is a natural language processing strategy used to decide if the information is positive, negative, or neutral and it is frequently performed on literature information to help organizations screen brand, item sentiment in client input, and comprehend client needs. In this paper, two strategies for sentiment analysis is proposed for word embedding and a bag of words on Urdu and English… More >

Hao Wu^1,*, B. Nagaraj²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.30, No.1, pp. 81-95, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.017654

Abstract English teaching has always attracted much attention. However, the processes of its transmission and acquirement is often divided into two separate parts, which seriously hinders the effective implementation of its objectives. Teachers attach particular importance to the choice of the curriculum structure and teaching material. Students are busy comprehending the assignments their teachers deem important. Under such a scenario, the effective acquisition of knowledge and the development of sustainable comprehensive abilities are ignored. The random forest algorithm in machine learning applications could play important role improving on the current English teaching system. A random forest model is constructed using a… More >

Fahd N. Al-Wesabi^1,2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.2, pp. 1519-1536, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018202

Abstract In this paper, the text analysis-based approach RTADZWA (Reliable Text Analysis and Digital Zero-Watermarking Approach) has been proposed for transferring and receiving authentic English text via the internet. Second level order of alphanumeric mechanism of hidden Markov model has been used in RTADZWA approach as a natural language processing to analyze the English text and extracts the features of the interrelationship between contexts of the text and utilizes the extracted features as watermark information and then validates it later with attacked English text to detect any tampering occurred on it. Text analysis and text zero-watermarking techniques have been integrated by… More >

Shakeel Ahmed¹, Munazza Ambreen¹, Muneer Ahmad², Abdulellah A. Alaboudi³, Roobaea Alroobaea⁴, NZ Jhanjhi^5,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.38, No.2, pp. 131-140, 2021, DOI:10.32604/csse.2021.016504

Abstract The COVID-19 outbreak severely affected formal face-to-face classroom teaching and learning. ICT-based online education and training can be a useful measure during the pandemic. In the Pakistani educational context, the use of ICT-based online training is generally sporadic and often unavailable, especially for developing English-language instructors’ listening comprehension skills. The major factors affecting availability include insufficient IT resources and infrastructure, a lack of proper online training for speech and listening, instructors with inadequate academic backgrounds, and an unfavorable environment for ICT-based training for listening comprehension. This study evaluated the effectiveness of ICT-based training for developing secondary-level English-language instructors’ listening comprehension… More >

Hao Wu^1,*, Arun Kumar Sangaiah²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.28, No.1, pp. 121-132, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.016457

Abstract In oral English teaching in China, teachers usually improve students’ pronunciation by their subjective judgment. Even to the same student, the teacher gives different suggestions at different times. Students’ oral pronunciation features can be obtained from the reconstructed acoustic and natural language features of speech audio, but the task is complicated due to the embedding of multimodal sentences. To solve this problem, this paper proposes an English speech recognition based on enhanced temporal convolution network. Firstly, a suitable UNet network model is designed to extract the noise of speech signal and achieve the purpose of speech enhancement. Secondly, a network… More >

Fahd N. Al-Wesabi^1,2,*, Saleh Alzahrani³, Fuad Alyarimi³, Mohammed Abdul³, Nadhem Nemri³, Mohammed M. Almazah⁴

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.37, No.3, pp. 297-311, 2021, DOI:10.32604/csse.2021.015915

Abstract In this paper, a combined approach CAZWNLP (a combined approach of zero-watermarking and natural language processing) has been developed for the tampering detection of English text exchanged through the Internet. The third gram of alphanumeric of the Markov model has been used with text-watermarking technologies to improve the performance and accuracy of tampering detection issues which are limited by the existing works reviewed in the literature of this study. The third-grade level of the Markov model has been used in this method as natural language processing technology to analyze an English text and extract the textual characteristics of the given… More >