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Lexical Substitution has a noticeable evolution in the literature,
mainly in the data sources used for the generation of substitutes
that feed the process. Of course, dictionaries and thesauri are widely
used for grouping synonyms in their structure, but the polysemy of
words prevents a direct exchange of terms without analyzing the
context. Vector space models, such as embeddings, are used to rep-
resent substitutes and also contexts. However, the representation of
words considering only contextual factors, in many cases, may in-
cur the approximation of terms that are not exactly synonyms. The
characteristics mentioned above suggest that the simultaneous use
of dictionaries and embeddings is a promising alternative for the
process. Thus, we present a method using information contained in
merged dictionaries, in addition to their linguistic relations struc-
tured in taxonomies. The method measures the preservation of the
meaning of the sentence with the potential synonym by observing
its frequency of application in small contexts. In addition, we also
consider a complete context to generate input from vector opera-
tions highlighting the best synonyms in a previously selected set.
The results show the efficiency of the method, surpassing many
methods consolidated in the literature in the prediction of the best
substitute for words contained in instances of a known benchmark.

WebMedia 2020

MSL-DE: Um Método de Substituição Lexical Apoiado em Dicionários e Embeddings

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EMNLP 2021 is planned to be a hybrid event in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, with both on-site and fully virtual participation possible.

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Promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), the Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and Web (WebMedia) is the main event of the theme in Brazil and an excellent opportunity for scientific and technical exchange among students, researchers and professionals in the areas of Multimedia, Hypermedia and Web. This year we will be celebrating to 26th edition of WebMedia, which will be held online from november 30th to December 4th .

Webmedia 2020’s programming includes:

– Technical sessions for the presentation of scientific papers
– National and international keynotes
– Panel with companies
– Workshops
– Short Courses
– Open community meetings

The topics of interest for submitting papers are:

– Web and Social Networks
– Multimedia
– Digital TV, Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing

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Promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), the Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and Web (WebMedia) is the main event of the theme in Brazil and an excellent opportunity for scientific and technical exchange among students, researchers and professionals in the areas of Multimedia, Hypermedia and Web.

Eye-tracking sensors allow users to interact by eye gaze with multimedia applications, providing a new interaction modality for those who do not want or cannot use the traditional ones (mouse, keyboard, and remote control). Considering digital TV applications, middleware Ginga-NCL does not support this type of interaction yet. In this paper, we propose a Ginga-NCL extension to provide eye-gaze interaction using eye-tracking technology and enable the use of a new event type for NCL multimedia authoring, called EyeGaze.

Providing Eye Gaze Interaction for Ginga-NCL Applications

Extracted from Wikipedia content, DBpedia is considered one of the most important knowledge bases of the Semantic Web, which has editions in several languages, among which those in English (DBpedia EN) and Portuguese (DBpedia PT). All DBpedia editions are subject to quality issues, more especially DBpedia PT suffers from inconsistencies and lack of data in several domains. In this talk, we describe a semi-automatic and incremental process for publishing data on DBpedia, coming from reliable external sources, while seeking to improve aspects of its quality. In an open science context, the proposal aims at consolidating DBpedia as a reference hub for research data, so that research from any area supported by the Semantic Web data can use its data reliably.

An Approach for Improving DBpedia as a Research Data Hub

Whatsapp is the most popular messaging app in the world. It is not only used as a one-to-one messaging app but also as a platform for group discussion. Recently, Whatsapp has gained the spotlight for its role in disseminating (often low-quality) information. Our study focuses on YouTube videos shared by political-oriented public groups on Whatsapp for a month during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a careful analysis of the topical distribution and the lexicon present in the videos shared, we shed light on the COVID-19 debate happening in these groups. Moreover, we compare COVID-19 related videos with other political videos being shared in the groups. We observe that videos that discuss political themes have more emotional attributes as well as topics related to typical right-wing concerns such as family, work, and religion than videos discussing both pandemic and politics.

Analyzing YouTube Videos Shared on Whatsapp in the Early COVID-19 Crisis

Currently, most declarative languages used to define multimedia
documents do not support the specification of an interactive ap-
plication with multiple users and multimodal interaction. To han-
dle multimodal and multi-user interaction in these languages, the
author of multimedia applications must write custom code in an
imperative language to be included in the declarative document.
To fill in this gap, this work proposes an extension of NCM (Nested
Context Language), NCL (Nested Context Language) and Ginga-
NCL to provide high-level abstraction multimodal and multi-user
interaction specifications. As a proof of concept, we developed a
multimedia application that uses multi-user voice interaction.

Extending Ginga-NCL to Specify Multimodal Interactions With
Multiple Users


Nowadays, news websites are the main sources of information for most people. But these outlets may have a bias in their publications, favoring some ideology. This can influence people’s opinion regarding several topics. Methods to automatically detect bias are usually based on aspects such as text and embedded hyperlinks. In this work, we present a strategy to detect media bias by analyzing networks that model citations between news websites, evaluating if the bias is related to structural characteristics of these networks. We show that ideological bias can be captured by citation patterns and present a method that uses these patterns to automatically identify political bias in news websites, reaching accuracy and F1 scores above 72% and 0.70, respectively.

An Evaluation of Structural Characteristics of Networks to Identify Media Bias in News Portals

Techniques in recommendation systems generally focuses on recommending the most important items for a user. The purpose of this work is to generate recommendations focusing on long tail items, leading users to less popular and at the same time highly relevant products. Two techniques from the literature were applied in this study. The first technique is through graphs to calculate node similarity between users and items. The second technique applies clustering in the set of items in a dataset. This combination was adopted in order to give more visibility to long tail items. To evaluate the proposed approach an experiment was carried out to calculate the accuracy, diversity, and popularity of the generated recommendation. We compare the proposed approach with other 3 baselines where our approach achieved better results.

Exploiting Graph Similarities with Clustering to Improve Long Tail Items Recommendations

Early fusion techniques have been proposed in video analysis tasks as a way to improve efficacy by generating compact data models capable of keeping semantic clues present on multimodal data. First attempts to fuse multimodal data employed fusion operators at low-level feature space, losing data representativeness. This drove later research efforts to evolve simple operators to complex operations, which became, in general, inseparable of the multimodal semantic clues processing. In this paper, we investigate the application of early multimodal fusion operators at the mid-level feature space. Five different operators (Concatenation, Sum, Gram, Average and Maximum) were employed to fuse mid-level multimodal video features. Fused data derived from each operator were then used as input for two different video analysis tasks: Temporal Video Scene Segmentation and Video Classification. For each task, we performed a comparative analysis among the operators and related work techniques designed for these tasks using complex fusion operations. The efficacy results reached by the operators were very close to those reached by the techniques, pointing out strong evidence that working on a more homogeneous feature space can reduce known low-level fusion drawbacks. In addition, operators make data fusion separable, allowing researchers to keep the focus on developing semantic clues representations.

Evaluating Early Fusion Operator at Mid-Level Feature Space

Information and Communication Technologies present as an interesting alternative for the mitigation of barriers that arise in the context of communication of information, mainly as technologies aimed at the machine translation of content in oral language into sign language. After years, despite the improvement of these technologies, the use of them still divides the opinions of the Deaf Community, due to the low emotional expressiveness of 3D avatars. This study aims to explore a strategy of analyzing emotions in texts to use in machine translators from Brazilian Portuguese to LIBRAS, in order to make the experience of using these technologies more satisfactory. The analysis of emotions in texts presents a relevant challenge in diversity due to the nuances and different forms of expression that the human language uses. In this context, the use of deep neural networks has gained enough space as a way to deal with these challenges, mainly with the use of algorithms that deal with emotion analysis as a textual classification task, such as the MultiFiT approach. To circumvent the scarcity of data in Brazilian Portuguese aimed at this task, some strategies for data augmentation were evaluated and applied to improve the database used in training. The results of the emotion analysis experiments with Transfer Learning pointed to accuracy above 94% in the best case.

Using Data Augmentation and Neural Networks to Improve the Emotion Analysis of Bazilian Portuguese Texts

Identifying suspects of crimes on social networks is one of the most relevant tasks in the analysis of this type of network. Most of the computational methods focused on this task involve supervised machine learning, and, therefore, require previously labeled datasets that inform, among the registered people, which ones are suspects. However, in practice, this type of information is not available, for several reasons, among which, it is rare or even protected by secrecy guaranteed by law. This limitation makes it very difficult to effectively use these methods in real situations. Hence, the present work raises the hypothesis that the use of a controlled vocabulary on the field of application can make it possible the identification of suspects in social networks, without the need for previously labeled datasets. In order to search for experimental evidence that points to the validity of the hypothesis raised, this article proposes a method that uses a controlled vocabulary with categorized terms, according to a certain domain (e.g., pedophilia, cyberbullying, terrorism, etc.), to analyze messages exchanged on social networks, in order to identify criminal suspects. The results obtained in a preliminary experiment showed signs of adequacy of the proposed method.

Identifying Criminal Suspects on Social Networks: A Vocabulary-Based Method

The recent growth of social networks led to an increase in the dissemination of hate speech online and, as a consequence, studies about hate speech detection have emerged. Part of them are based on supervised learning techniques, which require large labeled databases, however this is still a scarce resource. Most of the existing databases on hate speech consist of texts in English. Although there are some databases in Portuguese, they are rather small with few examples, a factor which can limit both the performance of simple deep neural networks and the usage of more complex architectures. In order to work around this setback, this paper analyses the usage of Data Augmentation in texts to improve the training performance of recursive neural networks (LSTM) and convolutional neural networks (CNN) applied to the hate speech detection task. Data Augmentation is a regularization process used on deep neural networks to avoid overfitting. These techniques are common in the field of computer vision, however, due to the complexity of natural languages, this process is not as frequently used in tasks involving texts. In this paper, we experimented on a public hate speech database in Portuguese using Data Augmentation techniques such as text generation from the original database to enhance the results. The experiments show an improvement in the results, demonstrating that the techniques are promising.

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