Vibhuti Gupta

Vibhuti Gupta

Automated detection of voice disorders with computational methods is a recent research area in the medical domain since it requires a rigorous endoscopy for the accurate diagnosis. Efficient screening methods are required for the diagnosis of voice disorders so as to provide timely medical facilities in minimal resources. Detecting Voice disorder using computational methods is a challenging problem since audio data is continuous due to which extracting relevant features and applying machine learning is hard and unreliable. This paper proposes a Long short term memory model (LSTM) to detect pathological voice disorders and evaluates its performance in a real 400 testing samples without any labels. Different feature extraction methods are used to provide the best set of features before applying LSTM model for classification. The paper describes the approach and experiments that show promising results with 22% sensitivity, 97% specificity and 56% unweighted average recall.

Vibhuti Gupta, Rattikorn Hewett

Twitter is a popular social network platform where users can interact and post texts of up to 280 characters called tweets. Hashtags, hyperlinked words in tweets, have increasingly become crucial for tweet retrieval and search. Using hashtags for tweet topic classification is a challenging problem because of context dependent among words, slangs, abbreviation and emoticons in a short tweet along with evolving use of hashtags. Since Twitter generates millions of tweets daily, tweet analytics is a fundamental problem of Big data stream that often requires a real-time Distributed processing. This paper proposes a distributed online approach to tweet topic classification with hashtags. Being implemented on Apache Storm, a distributed real time framework, our approach incrementally identifies and updates a set of strong predictors in the Naïve Bayes model for classifying each incoming tweet instance. Preliminary experiments show promising results with up to 97% accuracy and 37% increase in throughput on eight processors.