Background Human-machine dialog generation is an essential topic of research in the field of natural language processing.Generating high-quality,diverse,fluent,and emotional conversation is a challenging task.Based on...Background Human-machine dialog generation is an essential topic of research in the field of natural language processing.Generating high-quality,diverse,fluent,and emotional conversation is a challenging task.Based on continuing advancements in artificial intelligence and deep learning,new methods have come to the forefront in recent times.In particular,the end-to-end neural network model provides an extensible conversation generation framework that has the potential to enable machines to understand semantics and automatically generate responses.However,neural network models come with their own set of questions and challenges.The basic conversational model framework tends to produce universal,meaningless,and relatively"safe"answers.Methods Based on generative adversarial networks(GANs),a new emotional dialog generation framework called EMC-GAN is proposed in this study to address the task of emotional dialog generation.The proposed model comprises a generative and three discriminative models.The generator is based on the basic sequence-to-sequence(Seq2Seq)dialog generation model,and the aggregate discriminative model for the overall framework consists of a basic discriminative model,an emotion discriminative model,and a fluency discriminative model.The basic discriminative model distinguishes generated fake sentences from real sentences in the training corpus.The emotion discriminative model evaluates whether the emotion conveyed via the generated dialog agrees with a pre-specified emotion,and directs the generative model to generate dialogs that correspond to the category of the pre-specified emotion.Finally,the fluency discriminative model assigns a score to the fluency of the generated dialog and guides the generator to produce more fluent sentences.Results Based on the experimental results,this study confirms the superiority of the proposed model over similar existing models with respect to emotional accuracy,fluency,and consistency.Conclusions The proposed EMC-GAN model is capable of generating consistent,smooth,and fluent dialog that conveys pre-specified emotions,and exhibits better performance with respect to emotional accuracy,consistency,and fluency compared to its competitors.展开更多
The novel coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)is a pandemic disease that is currently affecting over 200 countries around the world and impacting billions of people.The first step to mitigate and control its spread is t...The novel coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)is a pandemic disease that is currently affecting over 200 countries around the world and impacting billions of people.The first step to mitigate and control its spread is to identify and isolate the infected people.But,because of the lack of reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction(RT-CPR)tests,it is important to discover suspected COVID-19 cases as early as possible,such as by scan analysis and chest X-ray by radiologists.However,chest X-ray analysis is relatively time-consuming since it requires more than 15 minutes per case.In this paper,an automated novel detection model of COVID-19 cases is proposed to perform real-time detection of COVID-19 cases.The proposed model consists of three main stages:image segmentation using Harris Hawks optimizer,synthetic image augmentation using an enhanced Wasserstein And Auxiliary Classifier Generative Adversarial Network,and image classification using Conventional Neural Network.Raw chest X-ray images datasets are used to train and test the proposed model.Experiments demonstrate that the proposed model is very efficient in the automatic detection of COVID-19 positive cases.It achieved 99.4%accuracy,99.15%precision,99.35%recall,99.25%F-measure,and 98.5%specificity.展开更多
文摘Background Human-machine dialog generation is an essential topic of research in the field of natural language processing.Generating high-quality,diverse,fluent,and emotional conversation is a challenging task.Based on continuing advancements in artificial intelligence and deep learning,new methods have come to the forefront in recent times.In particular,the end-to-end neural network model provides an extensible conversation generation framework that has the potential to enable machines to understand semantics and automatically generate responses.However,neural network models come with their own set of questions and challenges.The basic conversational model framework tends to produce universal,meaningless,and relatively"safe"answers.Methods Based on generative adversarial networks(GANs),a new emotional dialog generation framework called EMC-GAN is proposed in this study to address the task of emotional dialog generation.The proposed model comprises a generative and three discriminative models.The generator is based on the basic sequence-to-sequence(Seq2Seq)dialog generation model,and the aggregate discriminative model for the overall framework consists of a basic discriminative model,an emotion discriminative model,and a fluency discriminative model.The basic discriminative model distinguishes generated fake sentences from real sentences in the training corpus.The emotion discriminative model evaluates whether the emotion conveyed via the generated dialog agrees with a pre-specified emotion,and directs the generative model to generate dialogs that correspond to the category of the pre-specified emotion.Finally,the fluency discriminative model assigns a score to the fluency of the generated dialog and guides the generator to produce more fluent sentences.Results Based on the experimental results,this study confirms the superiority of the proposed model over similar existing models with respect to emotional accuracy,fluency,and consistency.Conclusions The proposed EMC-GAN model is capable of generating consistent,smooth,and fluent dialog that conveys pre-specified emotions,and exhibits better performance with respect to emotional accuracy,consistency,and fluency compared to its competitors.
文摘The novel coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)is a pandemic disease that is currently affecting over 200 countries around the world and impacting billions of people.The first step to mitigate and control its spread is to identify and isolate the infected people.But,because of the lack of reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction(RT-CPR)tests,it is important to discover suspected COVID-19 cases as early as possible,such as by scan analysis and chest X-ray by radiologists.However,chest X-ray analysis is relatively time-consuming since it requires more than 15 minutes per case.In this paper,an automated novel detection model of COVID-19 cases is proposed to perform real-time detection of COVID-19 cases.The proposed model consists of three main stages:image segmentation using Harris Hawks optimizer,synthetic image augmentation using an enhanced Wasserstein And Auxiliary Classifier Generative Adversarial Network,and image classification using Conventional Neural Network.Raw chest X-ray images datasets are used to train and test the proposed model.Experiments demonstrate that the proposed model is very efficient in the automatic detection of COVID-19 positive cases.It achieved 99.4%accuracy,99.15%precision,99.35%recall,99.25%F-measure,and 98.5%specificity.
