Author:Oosthuizen, Rudolph; Pretorius, LDate:Jul 2020Since systems engineering is still a relatively young and growing discipline, it requires a periodic analysis, taking into account past research to derive the requirements for future growth. Published research provides a good indication on ...Read more
Author:Sefara, Tshephisho Joseph; Rangata, Mapitsi RDate:Dec 2023Most general sentiment analysers degrade quality when tested on Tweets in the broadcast domain. This domain covers both radio and television broadcast. This paper proposes domain-specific data in the broadcast domain. Furthermore, it proposes ...Read more
Author:Oosthuizen, Rudolph; Grobbelaar, SDate:Oct 2021This paper aims to inform the course curriculum development for a master's degree in Engineering Management. Implementing a bibliometric analysis with topic modelling performed on relevant publications in the field ...Read more
Author:Marivate, V; Sefara, Tshephisho JDate:Aug 2020We study the effect of different approaches to text augmentation. To do this we use three datasets that include social media and formal text in the form of news articles. Our goal is to provide insights for practitioners and researchers on ...Read more
Author:Mtsweni, Jabu S; Ndlovu, Lungisani; Mthethwa, Sthembile N; Mkuzangwe, Nenekazi NPDate:Nov 2023Misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, and/or fake news have gained attention for good and bad in South Africa, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic. The research-based and non-research-based interventions to tackle misinformation ...Read more
Author:Sefara, Tshephisho J; Rangata, Mapitsi RDate:Oct 2023Exaggerated news titles are used to deceive news readers and spread misleading information. This paper presents a new natural language processing (NLP) technique that identifies exaggerated news titles. The technique uses Jaccard similarity ...Read more
Author:Modupe, A; Celik, T; Marivate, Vukosi N; Diale, MelvinDate:Mar 2017The growing use of informal social text messages on Twitter is one of the known sources of big data. These type of messages are noisy and frequently rife with acronyms, slangs, grammatical errors and non-standard words causing grief for natural ...Read more
Author:Sefara, Tshephisho J; Rangata, Mapitsi RDate:Aug 2023Twitter is one of the microblogging sites with millions of daily users. Broadcast companies use Twitter to share short messages to engage or share opinions about a particular topic or product. With a large number of conversations available ...Read more
Author:Featherstone, Coral; van der Poel, EDate:Jul 2015This paper is to describes a method for interposing computer generated melody with tone linked to unique entities within the text of a novel. Background: A recent study describing a piece of software called “TransProse” has already shown that ...Read more