Yuhong Zhang^1,*, Qinqin Wang¹, Yuling Li¹, Xindong Wu²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.56, No.2, pp. 285-297, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/cmc.2018.02604

Abstract Recently, the effectiveness of neural networks, especially convolutional neural networks, has been validated in the field of natural language processing, in which, sentiment classification for online reviews is an important and challenging task. Existing convolutional neural networks extract important features of sentences without local features or the feature sequence. Thus, these models do not perform well, especially for transition sentences. To this end, we propose a Piecewise Pooling Convolutional Neural Network (PPCNN) for sentiment classification. Firstly, with a sentence presented by word vectors, convolution operation is introduced to obtain the convolution feature map vectors. Secondly, these vectors are segmented according… More >

Daojian Zeng^1,3, Yuan Dai^1,3, Feng Li^1,3, R. Simon Sherratt², Jin Wang^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.1, pp. 121-136, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.055.121

Abstract Recently, many researchers have concentrated on using neural networks to learn features for Distant Supervised Relation Extraction (DSRE). These approaches generally use a softmax classifier with cross-entropy loss, which inevitably brings the noise of artificial class NA into classification process. To address the shortcoming, the classifier with ranking loss is employed to DSRE. Uniformly randomly selecting a relation or heuristically selecting the highest score among all incorrect relations are two common methods for generating a negative class in the ranking loss function. However, the majority of the generated negative class can be easily discriminated from positive class and will contribute… More >

Chengsheng Yuan^1,2,3, Xinting Li³, Q. M. Jonathan Wu³, Jin Li^4,5, Xingming Sun^1,2

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.53, No.4, pp. 357-372, 2017, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2017.053.357

Abstract Fingerprint-spoofing attack often occurs when imposters gain access illegally by using artificial fingerprints, which are made of common fingerprint materials, such as silicon, latex, etc. Thus, to protect our privacy, many fingerprint liveness detection methods are put forward to discriminate fake or true fingerprint. Current work on liveness detection for fingerprint images is focused on the construction of complex handcrafted features, but these methods normally destroy or lose spatial information between pixels. Different from existing methods, convolutional neural network (CNN) can generate high-level semantic representations by learning and concatenating low-level edge and shape features from a large amount of labeled… More >