Yeferson Torres-Berru^1,2,*, Vivian F. Lopez-Batista¹, Lorena Conde Zhingre³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.3, pp. 3501-3516, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.035367

Abstract In a public procurement process, corruption can occur at each stage, favoring a participant with a previous agreement, which can result in over-pricing and purchases of substandard products, as well as gender discrimination. This paper’s aim is to detect biased purchases using a Spanish Language corpus, analyzing text from the questions and answers registry platform by applicants in a public procurement process in Ecuador. Additionally, gender bias is detected, promoting both men and women to participate under the same conditions. In order to detect gender bias and favoritism towards certain providers by contracting entities, the study proposes a unique hybrid… More >

Umamaheswari Ramalingam^1,*, Senthil Kumar Murugesan², Karthikeyan Lakshmanan², Chidhambararajan Balasubramaniyan³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.2, pp. 1733-1744, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.032108

Abstract A Deep Neural Sentiment Classification Network (DNSCN) is developed in this work to classify the Twitter data unambiguously. It attempts to extract the negative and positive sentiments in the Twitter database. The main goal of the system is to find the sentiment behavior of tweets with minimum ambiguity. A well-defined neural network extracts deep features from the tweets automatically. Before extracting features deeper and deeper, the text in each tweet is represented by Bag-of-Words (BoW) and Word Embeddings (WE) models. The effectiveness of DNSCN architecture is analyzed using Twitter-Sanders-Apple2 (TSA2), Twitter-Sanders-Apple3 (TSA3), and Twitter-DataSet (TDS). TSA2 and TDS consist of… More >