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Distractor Generation in Multiple-Choice Tasks: A Survey of Methods, Datasets, and Evaluation
Elaf Alhazmi, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang +2
The distractor generation task focuses on generating incorrect but plausible options for objective questions such as fill-in-the-blank and multiple-choice questions. This task is w…
Keeping the Questions Conversational: Using Structured Representations to Resolve Dependency in Conversational Question Answering
Munazza Zaib, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang +1
Having an intelligent dialogue agent that can engage in conversational question answering (ConvQA) is now no longer limited to Sci-Fi movies only and has, in fact, turned into a re…
Trust-SIoT: Towards Trustworthy Object Classification in the Social Internet of Things
Subhash Sagar, Adnan Mahmood, Kai Wang +2
The recent emergence of the promising paradigm of the Social Internet of Things (SIoT) is a result of an intelligent amalgamation of the social networking concepts with the Interne…
A Survey on Location-Driven Influence Maximization
Taotao Cai, Quan Z. Sheng, Xiangyu Song +5
Influence Maximization (IM), which aims to select a set of users from a social network to maximize the expected number of influenced users, is an evergreen hot research topic. Its…
A Short Survey of Pre-trained Language Models for Conversational AI-A NewAge in NLP
Munazza Zaib, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang
Building a dialogue system that can communicate naturally with humans is a challenging yet interesting problem of agent-based computing. The rapid growth in this area is usually hi…
Towards a Machine Learning-driven Trust Evaluation Model for Social Internet of Things: A Time-aware Approach
Subhash Sagar, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng +2
The emerging paradigm of the Social Internet of Things (SIoT) has transformed the traditional notion of the Internet of Things (IoT) into a social network of billions of interconne…
Trust Computational Heuristic for Social Internet of Things: A Machine Learning-based Approach
Subhash Sagar, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng +1
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an evolving network of billions of interconnected physical objects, such as numerous sensors, smartphones, wearables, and embedded devices. These ph…
The 10 Research Topics in the Internet of Things
Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Adnan Mahmood +7
Since the term first coined in 1999 by Kevin Ashton, the Internet of Things (IoT) has gained significant momentum as a technology to connect physical objects to the Internet and to…
Multi-document Summarization via Deep Learning Techniques: A Survey
Congbo Ma, Wei Emma Zhang, Mingyu Guo +2
Multi-document summarization (MDS) is an effective tool for information aggregation that generates an informative and concise summary from a cluster of topic-related documents. Our…
Semantic Equivalent Adversarial Data Augmentation for Visual Question Answering
Ruixue Tang, Chao Ma, Wei Emma Zhang +2
Visual Question Answering (VQA) has achieved great success thanks to the fast development of deep neural networks (DNN). On the other hand, the data augmentation, as one of the maj…
Adversarial Attacks and Detection on Reinforcement Learning-Based Interactive Recommender Systems
Yuanjiang Cao, Xiaocong Chen, Lina Yao +2
Adversarial attacks pose significant challenges for detecting adversarial attacks at an early stage. We propose attack-agnostic detection on reinforcement learning-based interactiv…
Deep Conversational Recommender Systems: A New Frontier for Goal-Oriented Dialogue Systems
Dai Hoang Tran, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang +5
In recent years, the emerging topics of recommender systems that take advantage of natural language processing techniques have attracted much attention, and one of their applicatio…
Different Approaches for Human Activity Recognition: A Survey
Zawar Hussain, Michael Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang
Human activity recognition has gained importance in recent years due to its applications in various fields such as health, security and surveillance, entertainment, and intelligent…
Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning Models in Natural Language Processing: A Survey
Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Ahoud Alhazmi +1
With the development of high computational devices, deep neural networks (DNNs), in recent years, have gained significant popularity in many Artificial Intelligence (AI) applicatio…
Deep Autoencoder for Recommender Systems: Parameter Influence Analysis
Dai Hoang Tran, Zawar Hussain, Wei Emma Zhang +3
Recommender systems have recently attracted many researchers in the deep learning community. The state-of-the-art deep neural network models used in recommender systems are typical…
ContextServ: Towards Model-Driven Development of Context-AwareWeb Services
Quan Z. Sheng, Jian Yu, Hanchuan Xu +4
In the era of Web of Things and Services, Context-aware Web Services (CASs) are emerging as an important technology for building innovative context-aware applications. CASs enable…
Internet of Things Search Engine: Concepts, Classification, and Open Issues
Nguyen Khoi Tran, Quan Z. Sheng, M. Ali Babar +3
This article focuses on the complicated yet still relatively immature area of the Internet of Things Search Engines (IoTSE). It introduces related concepts of IoTSE and a model cal…
A Cache-based Optimizer for Querying Enhanced Knowledge Bases
Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Schahram Dustdar
With recent emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), information collection on our physical world and environment can be achieved at a much higher granularity an…
From Appearance to Essence: Comparing Truth Discovery Methods without Using Ground Truth
Xiu Susie Fang, Quan Z. Sheng, Xianzhi Wang +2
Truth discovery has been widely studied in recent years as a fundamental means for resolving the conflicts in multi-source data. Although many truth discovery methods have been pro…
Searching for the Internet of Things on the Web: Where It Is and What It Looks Like
Ali Shemshadi, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang +3
The Internet of Things (IoT), in general, is a compelling paradigm that aims to connect everyday objects to the Internet. Nowadays, IoT is considered as one of the main technologie…