154 research outputs found
Link Prediction for Wikipedia Articles as a Natural Language Inference Task
Link prediction task is vital to automatically understanding the structure of
large knowledge bases. In this paper, we present our system to solve this task
at the Data Science and Advanced Analytics 2023 Competition "Efficient and
Effective Link Prediction" (DSAA-2023 Competition) with a corpus containing
948,233 training and 238,265 for public testing. This paper introduces an
approach to link prediction in Wikipedia articles by formulating it as a
natural language inference (NLI) task. Drawing inspiration from recent
advancements in natural language processing and understanding, we cast link
prediction as an NLI task, wherein the presence of a link between two articles
is treated as a premise, and the task is to determine whether this premise
holds based on the information presented in the articles. We implemented our
system based on the Sentence Pair Classification for Link Prediction for the
Wikipedia Articles task. Our system achieved 0.99996 Macro F1-score and 1.00000
Macro F1-score for the public and private test sets, respectively. Our team
UIT-NLP ranked 3rd in performance on the private test set, equal to the scores
of the first and second places. Our code is publicly for research purposes.Comment: Accepted at the 10th IEEE International Conference On Data Science
And Advanced Analytics (DSAA 2023
Barriers Affecting the Acceptance of Tourism Apps Among Tourists
The development of technology applications has brought many benefits to users. However, users face certain risks when adopting new technology applications. This leads to barriers affecting the acceptance of new technology applications. The study was carried out to identify the barriers affecting the acceptance of tourism apps by tourists. Research data were collected by the method of quota sampling, with a sample size of 222 tourists who have visited and experienced tourism services at famous destinations in Vietnam. Qualitative research methods and quantitative research methods are both applied to test the research hypotheses. The structural equation modeling (SEM) has demonstrated that insecurity and discomfort positively affect tourists’ perceived risk of tourism apps. Also, insecurity, discomfort, and perceived risk negatively affect tourists’ acceptance of travel apps
ViSoBERT: A Pre-Trained Language Model for Vietnamese Social Media Text Processing
English and Chinese, known as resource-rich languages, have witnessed the
strong development of transformer-based language models for natural language
processing tasks. Although Vietnam has approximately 100M people speaking
Vietnamese, several pre-trained models, e.g., PhoBERT, ViBERT, and vELECTRA,
performed well on general Vietnamese NLP tasks, including POS tagging and named
entity recognition. These pre-trained language models are still limited to
Vietnamese social media tasks. In this paper, we present the first monolingual
pre-trained language model for Vietnamese social media texts, ViSoBERT, which
is pre-trained on a large-scale corpus of high-quality and diverse Vietnamese
social media texts using XLM-R architecture. Moreover, we explored our
pre-trained model on five important natural language downstream tasks on
Vietnamese social media texts: emotion recognition, hate speech detection,
sentiment analysis, spam reviews detection, and hate speech spans detection.
Our experiments demonstrate that ViSoBERT, with far fewer parameters, surpasses
the previous state-of-the-art models on multiple Vietnamese social media tasks.
Our ViSoBERT model is available only for research purposes.Comment: Accepted at EMNLP'2023 Main Conferenc
ViCGCN: Graph Convolutional Network with Contextualized Language Models for Social Media Mining in Vietnamese
Social media processing is a fundamental task in natural language processing
with numerous applications. As Vietnamese social media and information science
have grown rapidly, the necessity of information-based mining on Vietnamese
social media has become crucial. However, state-of-the-art research faces
several significant drawbacks, including imbalanced data and noisy data on
social media platforms. Imbalanced and noisy are two essential issues that need
to be addressed in Vietnamese social media texts. Graph Convolutional Networks
can address the problems of imbalanced and noisy data in text classification on
social media by taking advantage of the graph structure of the data. This study
presents a novel approach based on contextualized language model (PhoBERT) and
graph-based method (Graph Convolutional Networks). In particular, the proposed
approach, ViCGCN, jointly trained the power of Contextualized embeddings with
the ability of Graph Convolutional Networks, GCN, to capture more syntactic and
semantic dependencies to address those drawbacks. Extensive experiments on
various Vietnamese benchmark datasets were conducted to verify our approach.
The observation shows that applying GCN to BERTology models as the final layer
significantly improves performance. Moreover, the experiments demonstrate that
ViCGCN outperforms 13 powerful baseline models, including BERTology models,
fusion BERTology and GCN models, other baselines, and SOTA on three benchmark
social media datasets. Our proposed ViCGCN approach demonstrates a significant
improvement of up to 6.21%, 4.61%, and 2.63% over the best Contextualized
Language Models, including multilingual and monolingual, on three benchmark
datasets, UIT-VSMEC, UIT-ViCTSD, and UIT-VSFC, respectively. Additionally, our
integrated model ViCGCN achieves the best performance compared to other
BERTology integrated with GCN models
Biomolecular evaluation of three contrasting rice cultivars (Oryza sativa L.) in salt stress response at seedling stage.
Salt contamination of soils due to climate change faces a severe environmental issue that affects crop production today. However, the response mechanism in plants to salt stress is not fully understood. The present study investigated molecular and biochemical changes under salt stress in rice seedlings of three rice cultivars, i.e., AGPPS114 (salt-tolerant), OM6967 (moderately tolerance), VD20 (salt-sensitive). Increasing salt concentration leads to a reduction in shoot/root length but different levels among the cultivars. In contrast, reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation and lipid peroxidation increased progressively with increasing salt concentration and time course treatment. However, at 250 ?M of NaCl, these parameters were more adversely affected in VD20 than AGPPS114 and OM6967. Using ICP showed that Na+ accumulation in rice root increased gradually with increasing NaCl concentrations in all cultivars under salt treatment but was low in salt-sensitive cultivar VD20 compared to other cultivars. Antioxidant enzyme activity analysis indicated catalase (CAT) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) were induced during salt treatment in all cultivars. The results also showed greater proline and glycine betaine accumulation in the AGPPS114 than OM6976 and VD20. qPCR indicated a significant difference in transcript levels of the Na+-transporter gene OsSOS1, OsNHX1 and OsHKT1s in AGPPS114 and OM6967 cultivars compared to VD20 cultivar. In summary, the active regulation of genes related to Na+ transport at the transcription level and with high glycine betaine and proline accumulation levels may be involved in salt tolerance mechanisms and thus might be useful for selecting tolerant plants
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COOPERATION, SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE AND TOUR OPERATOR PERFORMANCE: A CASE STUDY OF TOURISM SUPPLY CHAIN IN VIETNAM
Cooperation among members in the supply chain is essential and is a core element in the supply chain management
strategy. This article uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis methods. Structural equation modeling
(SEM) demonstrates the relationship between cooperation, tourism supply chain performance, and operator performance in
Vietnam. Research collected data from 242 domestic and international tour operators located in major Vietnam cities such as
Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi City, Da Nang City, and Can Tho City. The study has demonstrated that cooperation positively
affects tourism supply chain performance and operator performance. Besides, tourism supply chain performance benefits
operator performance in the Vietnamese tourism supply chain
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