İrfan Aygün

Dr. İrfan Aygün

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Academic Career Length

7Years (2020-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

Representative Publications

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7 December 2021 in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine development and community vaccination studies are carried out all over the world. At this stage, the opposition to the vaccine seen in the society or the lack of trust in the developed vaccine is an important factor hampering vaccination activities. In this study, aspect-base sentiment analysis was conducted for USA, UK, Canada, Turkey, France, Germany, Spain and Italy showing the approach of twitter users to vaccination and vaccine types during the COVID-19 period. Within the scope of this study, two datasets in English and Turkish were prepared with 928,402 different vaccine-focused tweets collected by country. In the classification of tweets, 4 different aspects (policy, health, media and other) and 4 different BERT models (mBERT-base, BioBERT, ClinicalBERT nad BERTurk) were used. 6 different COVID-19 vaccines with the highest frequency among the datasets were selected and sentiment analysis was made by using Twitter posts regarding these vaccines. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first attempt to understand people's views about vaccination and types of vaccines. With the experiments conducted, the results of the views of the people on vaccination and vaccine types were presented according to the countries. The success of the method proposed in this study in the F1 Score was between 84% and 88% in datasets divided by country, while the total accuracy value was 87%.

30 December 2020 in Sakarya University Journal of Computer and Information Sciences
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Nowadays, social media and online sharing sites are frequently used to share thoughts about daily events. Thanks to the posts made by internet users on these platforms, first, quite big data is generated to interpret the agenda. More than 10,000 comments of more than 5000 users made about COVID-19 from online websites between 15 March and 15 May were collected in this study. Then, emotional analysis on these comments was carried out with BERT, GRU, LSTM and TF-IDF methods. The changes in the amount of user comments and the emotions reflected by the comments have been associated with the actual events of these dates. It has been determined which types of events affect users more. In addition, the emotional response changes of the users to the official COVID-19 statistics were measured and the peak points of the emotional changes were determined. Finally, the emotion classification methods applied were evaluated by user questionnaires and their successes were determined according to F-Measure.

19 April 2026 in Electronics
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In the age of remote communication and digital archiving, automated analysis of voice data has become increasingly important in various application areas. Despite significant advances in the field of Automatic Speech Recognition, integrating speaker recognition, textual sentiment analysis, and acoustic sentiment detection within a unified real-time processing pipeline remains a challenging task. Current approaches are often limited to monolithic designs or operate in batch processing modes, which restricts their scalability and real-time applicability. To address this gap, this work proposes a novel feature selection method called RAM, along with a hybrid decision-level merging approach combining Conv1D CNN and AutoML-based models. The proposed hybrid framework enables independent model training and integrates its probabilistic outputs through a weighted merging strategy for performance improvement. Furthermore, a scalable microservice-based software architecture has been developed to support real-time processing, feature selection, and model deployment. This design enhances system modularity, flexibility, and integration capability in practical applications. Experimental results show that when the proposed RAM method is used in conjunction with a hybrid AI model, it achieves over 97% accuracy in speaker recognition and over 82% accuracy in emotion classification, even with short audio samples. These findings demonstrate that the proposed approach provides a robust and efficient solution for real-time speech analysis tasks.