Mondher Bouazizi

Sarcasm is a sophisticated form of irony widely used in social networks and microblogging websites. It is usually used to convey implicit information within the message a person transmits. Sarcasm might be used for different purposes, such as criticism or mockery. However, it is hard even for humans to recognize. Therefore, recognizing sarcastic statements can be very useful to improve automatic sentiment analysis of data collected from microblogging websites or social networks. Sentiment Analys

Sentiment analysis and opinion mining in social networks present nowadays a hot topic of research. However, most of the state of the art works and researches on the automatic sentiment analysis and opinion mining of texts collected from social networks and microblogging websites are oriented toward the binary classification (i.e., classification into “positive”and “negative”) or the ternary classification (i.e., classification into “positive,”“negative,”and “neutral”) of texts. In this paper, we

Sentiment analysis refers to the automatic collection, aggregation, and classification of data collected online into different emotion classes. While most of the work related to sentiment analysis of texts focuses on the binary and ternary classification of these data, the task of multi-class classification has received less attention. Multi-class classification has always been a challenging task given the complexity of natural languages and the difficulty of understanding and mathematically "qu

Opinion mining and sentiment analysis refer to the identification and the aggregation of attitudes or opinions expressed by internet users towards a specific topic. However, due to the limitation in terms of characters (i.e. 140 characters per tweet) and the use of informal language, the state-of-the-art approaches of sentiment analysis present lower performances in Twitter than that when they are applied on longer texts. Moreover, presence of sarcasm makes the task even more challenging. Sarcas

With the rapid growth of online social media content, and the impact these have made on people's behavior, many researchers have been interested in studying these media platforms. A major part of their work focused on sentiment analysis and opinion mining. These refer to the automatic identification of opinions of people toward specific topics by analyzing their posts and publications. Multi-class sentiment analysis, in particular, addresses the identification of the exact sentiment conveyed by

Most of the state of the art works and researches on the automatic sentiment analysis and opinion mining of texts collected from social networks and microblogging websites are oriented towards the classification of texts into positive and negative. In this paper, we propose a pattern-based approach that goes deeper in the classification of texts collected from Twitter (i.e., tweets). We classify the tweets into 7 different classes; however the approach can be run to classify into more classes. E

Activity detection is a key task in the monitoring of elderly people living alone. This is because it helps locate them and identify any accident that might occur to them. In this article, we propose a novel approach that uses 2-D light detection and ranging (LIDAR) and deep learning to perform activity detection. In a first step, our approach processes and interpolates the data collected using the 2-D LIDAR following an algorithm we propose to locate the person and identify the useful data poin

Sarcasm is a special form of irony by which the person conveys implicit information, usually the opposite of what is said, within the message he transmits. Sarcasm is largely used in social networks and microblogging websites, where people mock or criticize in a way that makes it difficult even for humans to tell if what is said is what is meant. Recognizing sarcastic statements can be very useful when it comes to improving automatic sentiment analysis of data collected from social networks. It

Sarcasm is a special form of irony by which the person conveys implicit information, usually the opposite of what is said, within the message he transmits. Sarcasm is largely used in social networks and microblogging websites, where people mock or criticize in a way that makes it difficult even for humans to tell if what is said is what is meant. Recognizing sarcastic statements can be very useful when it comes to improving automatic sentiment analysis of data collected from social networks. It

Twitter is attracting significant interests from the research community in the last few years. Sentiment analysis of tweets is among the hottest topics of research nowadays. State of the art approaches of sentiment analysis present many shortcomings when classifying tweets, in particular when the classification goes beyond the binary or ternary classification. Multi-class sentiment analysis has proven to be a very challenging task. This is mainly for the simple reason that a tweet usually does n

In this paper, we propose a method that uses low-resolution infrared (IR) array sensors to identify the presence and location of people indoors. In the first step, we introduce a method that uses 32 × 24 pixels IR array sensors and relies on deep learning to detect the presence and location of up to three people with an accuracy reaching 97.84%. The approach detects the presence of a single person with an accuracy equal to 100%. In the second step, we use lower end IR array sensors with even low

Monitoring the activities of elderly people living alone is of great importance since it allows for the detection of when hazardous events such as falling occur. In this context, the use of 2D light detection and ranging (LIDAR) has been explored, among others, as a way to identify such events. Typically, a 2D LIDAR is placed near the ground and collects measurements continuously, and a computational device classifies these measurements. However, in a realistic environment with home furniture, i

A growing focus among scientists has been on researching the techniques of automatic detection of dementia that can be applied to the speech samples of individuals with dementia. Leveraging the rapid advancements in Deep Learning (DL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), these techniques have shown great potential in dementia detection. In this context, this paper proposes a method for dementia detection from the transcribed speech of subjects. Unlike conventional methods that rely on advanced

Monitoring elderly people living alone is of the utmost importance given the amount of risk they are exposed to. Being aware of the activities of the elderly person in real time could help prevent/detect dangerous event that might occur such as falling. In this paper, we propose a method for activity detection using a 2D LIght Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) and deep learning. Unlike conventional work, where an activity refers to moving from one position to another, we use the term “activit

To build a system for monitoring elderly people living alone, an important step needs to be done: identifying the presence/absence of the person being monitored and his location. Such task has several applications that we discuss in this paper, and remains very important. Several techniques were proposed in the literature. However, most of them suffer from issues related to privacy, coverage or convenience. In the current paper, we propose an infrared array sensor-based approach to detect the pr