Crime and violation are the threat to justice and meant to be controlled. Accurate crime prediction and future forecasting trends can assist to enhance metropolitan safety computationally. The limited ability of humans to process complex information from big data hinders the early and accurate prediction and forecasting of crime. The accurate estimation of the crime rate, types and hot spots from past patterns creates many computational challenges and opportunities. Despite considerable research efforts, yet there is a need to have a better predictive algorithm, which direct police patrols toward criminal activities. Previous studies are lacking to achieve crime forecasting and prediction accuracy based on learning models. Therefore, this study applied different machine learning algorithms, namely, the logistic regression, support vector machine (SVM), Naïve Bayes, k-nearest neighbors (KNN), decision tree, multilayer perceptron (MLP), random forest, and eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), and time series analysis by long-short term memory (LSTM) and autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model to better fit the crime data. The performance of LSTM for time series analysis was reasonably adequate in order of magnitude of root mean square error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE), on both data sets. Exploratory data analysis predicts more than 35 crime types and suggests a yearly decline in Chicago crime rate, and a slight increase in Los Angeles crime rate; with fewer crimes occurred in February as compared to other months. The overall crime rate in Chicago will continue to increase moderately in the future, with a probable decline in future years. The Los Angeles crime rate and crimes sharply declined, as suggested by the ARIMA model. Moreover, crime forecasting results were further identified in the main regions for both cities. Overall, these results provide early identification of crime, hot spots with higher crime rate, and future trends with improved predictive accuracy than with other methods and are useful for directing police practice and strategies.

Sentiment analysis is a computational analysis of unstructured textual data, used to assess the person’s attitude from a piece of text. Aspect-based sentimental analysis defines the relationship among opinion targets of a document and the polarity values corresponding to them. Since aspects are often implicit, it is an extremely challenging task to spot them and calculate their respective polarity. In recent years, several methods, strategies and improvements have been suggested to address these problems at various levels, including corpus or lexicon-based approaches, term frequency and reverse document frequency approaches. These strategies are quite effective when aspects are correlated with predefined groups and may struggle when low-frequency aspects are involved. In terms of accuracy, heuristic approaches are stronger than frequency and lexicon based approaches, however, they consume time due to different combinations of features. This article presents an effective method to analyze the sentiments by integrating three operations: (a) Mining semantic features (b) Transformation of extracted corpus using Word2vec (c) Implementation of CNN for the mining of opinion. The hyperparameters of CNN are tuned with Genetic Algorithm (GA). Experimental results revealed that the proposed technique gave better results than the state-of-the-art techniques with 95.5% accuracy rate, 94.3% precision rate, 91.1% recall and 96.0% f-measure rate.

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is a popular topic in academia and industry. Feature engineering plays a pivotal role in building an efficient SER. Although researchers have done a tremendous amount of work in this field, there are still the issues of speech feature choice and the correct application of feature engineering that remains to be solved in the domain of SER. In this research, a feature optimization approach that uses a clustering-based genetic algorithm is proposed. Instead of randomly selecting the new generation, clustering is applied at the fitness evaluation level to detect outliers for exclusion to be part of the next generation. The approach is compared with the standard Genetic Algorithm in the context of audio emotion recognition using Berlin Emotional Speech Database (EMO-DB), Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Speech and Song (RAVDESS) and, Surrey Audio-Visual Expressed Emotion Dataset (SAVEE). Results signify that the proposed technique effectively improved the emotion classification in speech. The recognition rate of 89.6% for general speakers (both male and female), 86.2% for male speakers, and 88.3% for female speakers on EMO-DB, 82.5% for general speakers, 75.4% for male speakers, and 91.1% for female speaker on RAVDESS, and 77.7% for general speakers on SAVEE is obtained in speaker-dependent experiments. For speaker-independent experiments, we achieved the recognition rate of 77.5% on EMO-DB, 76.2% on RAVDESS and, 69.8 % on SAVEE. All the experiments were performed on MATLAB and the Support Vector Machine (SVM) was used for classification. Results confirm that the proposed method is capable of discriminating emotions effectively and performed better than the other approaches used for comparison in terms of performance measures.

Digital libraries content and quality of services are badly affected by the author name ambiguity problem in the citations and it is considered as one of the hardest problems faced by the digital library researchers. Several techniques have been proposed in the literature for the author name ambiguity problem. In this paper, we reviewed some recently presented author name disambiguation techniques and give some challenges and future research directions. We analyze the recent advancements in this field and classify these techniques into supervised, unsupervised, semi-supervised, graph-based and heuristic-based techniques according to their problem formulation that is mainly used for the author name disambiguation. A few surveys have been conducted to review different techniques for the author name disambiguation. These surveys highlighted only the methodology adopted for author name disambiguation but did not critically review their shortcomings. This survey provides a detailed review of author name disambiguation techniques available in the literature, makes a comparison of these techniques at an abstract level and discusses their limitations.

The growing use of electronic health records in medical domain results is generating a large amount of medical data that is stored in the form of clinical notes. These clinical notes are enriched with clinical entities like disease, treatment, test, drugs, genes, and proteins. The extraction of clinical entities from clinical notes is a challenging task as clinical notes are written in the form of natural language. The extraction of clinical entities has many useful applications such as clinical notes analysis, medical data privacy, decision support systems, and disease analysis. Although various machine learning and deep learning models are developed to extract clinical entities from clinical notes, developing an accurate model is still challenging. This study presents a novel deep learning-based technique to extract the clinical entities from clinical notes. The proposed model uses local and global context to extract clinical entities in contrast to existing models that use only global context. The combination of CNN, Bi-LSTM, and CRF with non-complex embedding (proposed model) outperforms existing models by a margin of 4-10% and 5-12% in terms of F1-score on i2b2-2010 and i2b2-2012 data. The accurate detection of clinical entities can be helpful in the privacy preservation of medical data that increases the user's and medical organization's trust in sharing medical data.