Mesfer Al Duhayyim¹, Haya Mesfer Alshahrani², Fahd N. Al-Wesabi³, Mohammed Alamgeer⁴, Anwer Mustafa Hilal^5,*, Mohammed Rizwanullah⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.3, pp. 6257-6270, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.021212

Abstract Cybersecurity encompasses various elements such as strategies, policies, processes, and techniques to accomplish availability, confidentiality, and integrity of resource processing, network, software, and data from attacks. In this scenario, the rising popularity of Online Social Networks (OSN) is under threat from spammers for which effective spam bot detection approaches should be developed. Earlier studies have developed different approaches for the detection of spam bots in OSN. But those techniques primarily concentrated on hand-crafted features to capture the features of malicious users while the application of Deep Learning (DL) models needs to be explored. With this motivation, the current research article… More >

Norjihan Binti Abdul Ghani^1,*, Suraya Hamid¹, Muneer Ahmad¹, Younes Saadi¹, N.Z. Jhanjhi², Mohammed A. Alzain³, Mehedi Masud⁴

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.40, No.3, pp. 913-926, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.018467

Abstract The world health organization (WHO) terms dengue as a serious illness that impacts almost half of the world’s population and carries no specific treatment. Early and accurate detection of spread in affected regions can save precious lives. Despite the severity of the disease, a few noticeable works can be found that involve sentiment analysis to mine accurate intuitions from the social media text streams. However, the massive data explosion in recent years has led to difficulties in terms of storing and processing large amounts of data, as reliable mechanisms to gather the data and suitable techniques to extract meaningful insights… More >

Jari Jussila¹, Eman Alkhammash^2,*, Norah Saleh Alghamdi³, Prashanth Madhala⁴, Mohammad Ayoub Khan⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.1, pp. 1845-1856, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.017284

Abstract Social media platforms provide new value for markets and research companies. This article explores the use of social media data to enhance customer value propositions. The case study involves a company that develops wearable Internet of Things (IoT) devices and services for stress management. Netnography and semantic annotation for recognizing and categorizing the context of tweets are conducted to gain a better understanding of users’ stress management practices. The aim is to analyze the tweets about stress management practices and to identify the context from the tweets. Thereafter, we map the tweets on pleasure and arousal to elicit customer insights.… More >

Samina Amin^1,*, M. Irfan Uddin¹, Heyam H. Al-Baity², M. Ali Zeb¹, M. Abrar Khan¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.2, pp. 2231-2247, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016896

Abstract Social networking services (SNSs) provide massive data that can be a very influential source of information during pandemic outbreaks. This study shows that social media analysis can be used as a crisis detector (e.g., understanding the sentiment of social media users regarding various pandemic outbreaks). The novel Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19), commonly known as coronavirus, has affected everyone worldwide in 2020. Streaming Twitter data have revealed the status of the COVID-19 outbreak in the most affected regions. This study focuses on identifying COVID-19 patients using tweets without requiring medical records to find the COVID-19 pandemic in Twitter messages (tweets). For this… More >

Samreen Naeem¹, Wali Khan Mashwani^2,*, Aqib Ali^1,3, M. Irfan Uddin⁴, Marwan Mahmoud⁵, Farrukh Jamal⁶, Christophe Chesneau⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.3, pp. 3451-3461, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015872

Abstract This study proposes an approach based on machine learning to forecast currency exchange rates by applying sentiment analysis to messages on Twitter (called tweets). A dataset of the exchange rates between the United States Dollar (USD) and the Pakistani Rupee (PKR) was formed by collecting information from a forex website as well as a collection of tweets from the business community in Pakistan containing finance-related words. The dataset was collected in raw form, and was subjected to natural language processing by way of data preprocessing. Response variable labeling was then applied to the standardized dataset, where the response variables were… More >

Saleh Albahli¹, Ahmad Algsham¹, Shamsulhaq Aeraj¹, Muath Alsaeed¹, Muath Alrashed¹, Hafiz Tayyab Rauf^2,*, Muhammad Arif³, Mazin Abed Mohammed⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.2, pp. 1613-1627, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014265

Abstract Social media has been the primary source of information from mainstream news agencies due to the large number of users posting their feedback. The COVID-19 outbreak did not only bring a virus with it but it also brought fear and uncertainty along with inaccurate and misinformation spread on social media platforms. This phenomenon caused a state of panic among people. Different studies were conducted to stop the spread of fake news to help people cope with the situation. In this paper, a semantic analysis of three levels (negative, neutral, and positive) is used to gauge the feelings of Gulf countries… More >

Ameen Banjar¹, Zohair Ahmed², Ali Daud¹, Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi³, Hussain Dawood^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.2, pp. 2203-2225, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014226

Abstract Most consumers read online reviews written by different users before making purchase decisions, where each opinion expresses some sentiment. Therefore, sentiment analysis is currently a hot topic of research. In particular, aspect-based sentiment analysis concerns the exploration of emotions, opinions and facts that are expressed by people, usually in the form of polarity. It is crucial to consider polarity calculations and not simply categorize reviews as positive, negative, or neutral. Currently, the available lexicon-based method accuracy is affected by limited coverage. Several of the available polarity estimation techniques are too general and may not reflect the aspect/topic in question if… More >

Samina Amin^1,*, M. Irfan Uddin¹, M. Ali Zeb¹, Ala Abdulsalam Alarood², Marwan Mahmoud³, Monagi H. Alkinani⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.1, pp. 1317-1332, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014733

Abstract Social media platforms have lately emerged as a promising tool for predicting the outbreak of epidemics by analyzing information on them with the help of machine learning techniques. Many analytical and statistical models are available to infer a variety of user sentiments in posts on social media. The amount of data generated by social media platforms, such as Twitter, that can be used to track diseases is increasing rapidly. This paper proposes a method for the classification of tweets related to the outbreak of dengue using machine learning algorithms. An artificial neural network (ANN)-based method is developed using Global Vector… More >

Belal Abdullah Hezam Murshed^1,∗, Hasib Daowd Esmail Al-ariki^2,†, Suresha Mallappa^3,‡

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.35, No.6, pp. 495-512, 2020, DOI:10.32604/csse.2020.35.495

Abstract This paper conducts a comprehensive review of various word and sentence semantic similarity techniques proposed in the literature. Corpus-based, Knowledge-based, and Feature-based are categorized under word semantic similarity techniques. String and set-based, Word Order-based Similarity, POSbased, Syntactic dependency-based are categorized as sentence semantic similarity techniques. Using these techniques, we propose a model for computing the overall accuracy of the twitter dataset. The proposed model has been tested on the following four measures: Atish’s measure, Li’s measure, Mihalcea’s measure with path similarity, and Mihalcea’s measure with Wu and Palmer’s (WuP) similarity. Finally, we evaluate the proposed method on three real-world twitter… More >

Zia Ul Rehman^1,2, Sagheer Abbas¹, Muhammad Adnan Khan^3,*, Ghulam Mustafa², Hira Fayyaz⁴, Muhammad Hanif^1,2, Muhammad Anwar Saeed⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.2, pp. 1075-1090, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.012770

Abstract The internet, particularly online social networking platforms have revolutionized the way extremist groups are influencing and radicalizing individuals. Recent research reveals that the process initiates by exposing vast audiences to extremist content and then migrating potential victims to confined platforms for intensive radicalization. Consequently, social networks have evolved as a persuasive tool for extremism aiding as recruitment platform and psychological warfare. Thus, recognizing potential radical text or material is vital to restrict the circulation of the extremist chronicle. The aim of this research work is to identify radical text in social media. Our contributions are as follows: (i) A new… More >