Emotion recognition from speech data is an active and emerging area of research that plays an important role in numerous applications,such as robotics,virtual reality,behavior assessments,and emergency call centers.Re...Emotion recognition from speech data is an active and emerging area of research that plays an important role in numerous applications,such as robotics,virtual reality,behavior assessments,and emergency call centers.Recently,researchers have developed many techniques in this field in order to ensure an improvement in the accuracy by utilizing several deep learning approaches,but the recognition rate is still not convincing.Our main aim is to develop a new technique that increases the recognition rate with reasonable cost computations.In this paper,we suggested a new technique,which is a one-dimensional dilated convolutional neural network(1D-DCNN)for speech emotion recognition(SER)that utilizes the hierarchical features learning blocks(HFLBs)with a bi-directional gated recurrent unit(BiGRU).We designed a one-dimensional CNN network to enhance the speech signals,which uses a spectral analysis,and to extract the hidden patterns from the speech signals that are fed into a stacked one-dimensional dilated network that are called HFLBs.Each HFLB contains one dilated convolution layer(DCL),one batch normalization(BN),and one leaky_relu(Relu)layer in order to extract the emotional features using a hieratical correlation strategy.Furthermore,the learned emotional features are feed into a BiGRU in order to adjust the global weights and to recognize the temporal cues.The final state of the deep BiGRU is passed from a softmax classifier in order to produce the probabilities of the emotions.The proposed model was evaluated over three benchmarked datasets that included the IEMOCAP,EMO-DB,and RAVDESS,which achieved 72.75%,91.14%,and 78.01%accuracy,respectively.展开更多
Named entity recognition(NER)is an important part in knowledge extraction and one of the main tasks in constructing knowledge graphs.In today’s Chinese named entity recognition(CNER)task,the BERT-BiLSTM-CRF model is ...Named entity recognition(NER)is an important part in knowledge extraction and one of the main tasks in constructing knowledge graphs.In today’s Chinese named entity recognition(CNER)task,the BERT-BiLSTM-CRF model is widely used and often yields notable results.However,recognizing each entity with high accuracy remains challenging.Many entities do not appear as single words but as part of complex phrases,making it difficult to achieve accurate recognition using word embedding information alone because the intricate lexical structure often impacts the performance.To address this issue,we propose an improved Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers(BERT)character word conditional random field(CRF)(BCWC)model.It incorporates a pre-trained word embedding model using the skip-gram with negative sampling(SGNS)method,alongside traditional BERT embeddings.By comparing datasets with different word segmentation tools,we obtain enhanced word embedding features for segmented data.These features are then processed using the multi-scale convolution and iterated dilated convolutional neural networks(IDCNNs)with varying expansion rates to capture features at multiple scales and extract diverse contextual information.Additionally,a multi-attention mechanism is employed to fuse word and character embeddings.Finally,CRFs are applied to learn sequence constraints and optimize entity label annotations.A series of experiments are conducted on three public datasets,demonstrating that the proposed method outperforms the recent advanced baselines.BCWC is capable to address the challenge of recognizing complex entities by combining character-level and word-level embedding information,thereby improving the accuracy of CNER.Such a model is potential to the applications of more precise knowledge extraction such as knowledge graph construction and information retrieval,particularly in domain-specific natural language processing tasks that require high entity recognition precision.展开更多
For real-time classification of rock-masses in hard-rock tunnels,quick determination of the rock lithology on the tunnel face during construction is essential.Motivated by current breakthroughs in artificial intellige...For real-time classification of rock-masses in hard-rock tunnels,quick determination of the rock lithology on the tunnel face during construction is essential.Motivated by current breakthroughs in artificial intelligence technology in machine vision,a new automatic detection approach for classifying tunnel lithology based on tunnel face images was developed.The method benefits from residual learning for training a deep convolutional neural network(DCNN),and a multi-scale dilated convolutional attention block is proposed.The block with different dilation rates can provide various receptive fields,and thus it can extract multi-scale features.Moreover,the attention mechanism is utilized to select the salient features adaptively and further improve the performance of the model.In this study,an initial image data set made up of photographs of tunnel faces consisting of basalt,granite,siltstone,and tuff was first collected.After classifying and enhancing the training,validation,and testing data sets,a new image data set was generated.A comparison of the experimental findings demonstrated that the suggested approach outperforms previous classifiers in terms of various indicators,including accuracy,precision,recall,F1-score,and computing time.Finally,a visualization analysis was performed to explain the process of the network in the classification of tunnel lithology through feature extraction.Overall,this study demonstrates the potential of using artificial intelligence methods for in situ rock lithology classification utilizing geological images of the tunnel face.展开更多
基金supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Korean Government through the Ministry of Science and ICT under Grant NRF-2020R1F1A1060659 and in part by the 2020 Faculty Research Fund of Sejong University。
文摘Emotion recognition from speech data is an active and emerging area of research that plays an important role in numerous applications,such as robotics,virtual reality,behavior assessments,and emergency call centers.Recently,researchers have developed many techniques in this field in order to ensure an improvement in the accuracy by utilizing several deep learning approaches,but the recognition rate is still not convincing.Our main aim is to develop a new technique that increases the recognition rate with reasonable cost computations.In this paper,we suggested a new technique,which is a one-dimensional dilated convolutional neural network(1D-DCNN)for speech emotion recognition(SER)that utilizes the hierarchical features learning blocks(HFLBs)with a bi-directional gated recurrent unit(BiGRU).We designed a one-dimensional CNN network to enhance the speech signals,which uses a spectral analysis,and to extract the hidden patterns from the speech signals that are fed into a stacked one-dimensional dilated network that are called HFLBs.Each HFLB contains one dilated convolution layer(DCL),one batch normalization(BN),and one leaky_relu(Relu)layer in order to extract the emotional features using a hieratical correlation strategy.Furthermore,the learned emotional features are feed into a BiGRU in order to adjust the global weights and to recognize the temporal cues.The final state of the deep BiGRU is passed from a softmax classifier in order to produce the probabilities of the emotions.The proposed model was evaluated over three benchmarked datasets that included the IEMOCAP,EMO-DB,and RAVDESS,which achieved 72.75%,91.14%,and 78.01%accuracy,respectively.
基金supported by the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals under Grant No.CBAS2022GSP05the Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science under Grant No.6142A01210404the Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Geo-Information Processing under Grant No.KLIGIP-2022-B03.
文摘Named entity recognition(NER)is an important part in knowledge extraction and one of the main tasks in constructing knowledge graphs.In today’s Chinese named entity recognition(CNER)task,the BERT-BiLSTM-CRF model is widely used and often yields notable results.However,recognizing each entity with high accuracy remains challenging.Many entities do not appear as single words but as part of complex phrases,making it difficult to achieve accurate recognition using word embedding information alone because the intricate lexical structure often impacts the performance.To address this issue,we propose an improved Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers(BERT)character word conditional random field(CRF)(BCWC)model.It incorporates a pre-trained word embedding model using the skip-gram with negative sampling(SGNS)method,alongside traditional BERT embeddings.By comparing datasets with different word segmentation tools,we obtain enhanced word embedding features for segmented data.These features are then processed using the multi-scale convolution and iterated dilated convolutional neural networks(IDCNNs)with varying expansion rates to capture features at multiple scales and extract diverse contextual information.Additionally,a multi-attention mechanism is employed to fuse word and character embeddings.Finally,CRFs are applied to learn sequence constraints and optimize entity label annotations.A series of experiments are conducted on three public datasets,demonstrating that the proposed method outperforms the recent advanced baselines.BCWC is capable to address the challenge of recognizing complex entities by combining character-level and word-level embedding information,thereby improving the accuracy of CNER.Such a model is potential to the applications of more precise knowledge extraction such as knowledge graph construction and information retrieval,particularly in domain-specific natural language processing tasks that require high entity recognition precision.
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51978460)the Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Shield Machine and Boring Technology(No.SKLST-2019-K08).
文摘For real-time classification of rock-masses in hard-rock tunnels,quick determination of the rock lithology on the tunnel face during construction is essential.Motivated by current breakthroughs in artificial intelligence technology in machine vision,a new automatic detection approach for classifying tunnel lithology based on tunnel face images was developed.The method benefits from residual learning for training a deep convolutional neural network(DCNN),and a multi-scale dilated convolutional attention block is proposed.The block with different dilation rates can provide various receptive fields,and thus it can extract multi-scale features.Moreover,the attention mechanism is utilized to select the salient features adaptively and further improve the performance of the model.In this study,an initial image data set made up of photographs of tunnel faces consisting of basalt,granite,siltstone,and tuff was first collected.After classifying and enhancing the training,validation,and testing data sets,a new image data set was generated.A comparison of the experimental findings demonstrated that the suggested approach outperforms previous classifiers in terms of various indicators,including accuracy,precision,recall,F1-score,and computing time.Finally,a visualization analysis was performed to explain the process of the network in the classification of tunnel lithology through feature extraction.Overall,this study demonstrates the potential of using artificial intelligence methods for in situ rock lithology classification utilizing geological images of the tunnel face.
