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Events are phenomena that occur at a specific time and place. Its detection can bring benefits to society since it is possible to extract knowledge from these events. Event detection is a multimodal task since these events have textual, geographical, and temporal components. Most multimodal research in the literature uses the concatenation of the components to represent the events. These approaches use multi-class or binary learning to detect events of interest which intensifies the user&#39;s labeling effort, where the user should label event classes even if there is no interest in detecting them. In this paper, we present the Triple-VAE approach that learns a unified representation from textual, spatial, and density modalities through a variational autoencoder, which is one of the state-of-the-art in representation learning. Our proposed Triple-VAE obtains suitable event representations for one-class classification, where users provide labels only for events of interest, thereby reducing the labeling effort. We carried out an experimental evaluation with ten real-world event datasets, four multimodal representation methods, and five evaluation metrics. Triple-VAE outperforms and presents a statistically significant difference considering the other three representation methods in all datasets. Therefore, Triple-VAE proved to be promising to represent the events in the one-class event detection scenario.

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Triple-VAE: A Triple Variational Autoencoder to Represent Events in One-Class Event Detection

one-class event classification

one-class learning

multimodal variational autoencoder

**BRACIS** originated from the combination of the two most important scientific events in Brazil in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Computational Intelligence (CI): the Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence – **SBIA** (22 editions), and the Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks – **SBRN** (13 editions). **ENIAC** is a national forum for researchers, practitioners, educators and students to present and discuss innovations, trends, experiences, developments and work in progress in the fields of Artificial and Computational Intelligence. **STIL** is the bi-annual Language Technology event.
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BRACIS originated from the combination of the two most important scientific events in Brazil in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Computational Intelligence (CI): the Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence – SBIA (22 editions), and the Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks – SBRN (13 editions). 
ENIAC is a national forum for researchers, practitioners, educators and students to present and discuss innovations, trends, experiences, developments and work in progress in the fields of Artificial and Computational Intelligence. 
STIL is the bi-annual Language Technology event.
All events are supported by the Brazilian Computer Society – Special Interest Groups: CE-IA, CE-IC and CE-PLN

Events are phenomena that occur at a specific time and place. Its detection can bring benefits to society since it is possible to extract knowledge from these events. Event detection is a multimodal task since these events have textual, geographical, and temporal components. Most multimodal research in the literature uses the concatenation of the components to represent the events. These approaches use multi-class or binary learning to detect events of interest which intensifies the user's labeling effort, where the user should label event classes even if there is no interest in detecting them. In this paper, we present the Triple-VAE approach that learns a unified representation from textual, spatial, and density modalities through a variational autoencoder, which is one of the state-of-the-art in representation learning. Our proposed Triple-VAE obtains suitable event representations for one-class classification, where users provide labels only for events of interest, thereby reducing the labeling effort. We carried out an experimental evaluation with ten real-world event datasets, four multimodal representation methods, and five evaluation metrics. Triple-VAE outperforms and presents a statistically significant difference considering the other three representation methods in all datasets. Therefore, Triple-VAE proved to be promising to represent the events in the one-class event detection scenario.

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Due to the increasing use of artificial intelligence for decision making and the observation of biased decisions in many applications, researchers are investigating solutions that attempt to build fairer models that do not reproduce discrimination. Some of the explored strategies are based on adversarial learn- ing to achieve fairness in machine learning by encoding fairness constraints through an adversarial model. Moreover, it is usual for each proposal to assess its model with a specific metric, making comparing current approaches a com- plex task. In that sense, we defined a utility and fairness trade-off metric. We assessed 15 fair model implementations and a baseline model using this metric, providing a systemically comparative ruler for other approaches.

Assessing Fair Machine Learning Strategies Through a Fairness-Utility Trade-off Metric

The complexity of distributed algorithm’s distribution policies often impedes the use of established mathematical approaches for performance analysis, such as asymptotic analysis, recurrence techniques and probabilistic analysis. The aforementioned techniques have no proper means to assess the impact on the algorithm’s run time caused by the gradual increment of the number of processors. Therefore, this article proposes both a visual and formal approach for valuating the processor saturation point and speedup of distributed algorithms utilized in Artificial Intelligence, based on automatic simulations of Hierarchical Colored Petri Nets in the Colored Petri Nets Tools software. The aforementioned approach was demonstrated in a case study on the training of Multilayer Perceptrons based on error backpropagation

Speedup Evaluation of the Training Algorithm for a Multilayer Perceptron based on Colored Petri Nets Simulations

Social media have become trendy environments for communication. Because of that, analyze the sentiment that the user expresses in their social media posts is an important research field. However, detecting polarity in such contents is a challenge, partially because the amount of labeled data to train classifiers is scarce in many situations. This paper explores strategies for reusing a model learned from a source dataset to classify instances in a target dataset. The experiments are conducted with 22 tweets sentiment analysis datasets and approaches based on similarity metrics. The results point out that the size of the source training set plays an essential role in the classifiers’ performance when they were applied to the target data.

Exploring model transfer strategies for sentiment analysis in Twitter

The judicial system is composed of numerous court documents. These documents may contain relevant information that supports decision-making in future processes. However, collecting this information is not a trivial task. This article proposes the use of clustering techniques to group similar court lawsuits and facilitate the collection of information. In this way, different approaches were evaluated for identifying the most appropriate to perform this task. The approaches were applied to a database composed of 1515 facts of initial petitions. These approaches were evaluated using internal metrics and texts of the grouped court lawsuits. The results showed that the best approach to grouping court lawsuits is composed of the K-Means algorithm and the TF-IDF representation technique in combination with the PCA technique.

Assessment of text clustering approaches for legal documents

A propagação de desinformação trouxe e ainda traz diversos problemas para a sociedade, sendo 
considerada uma infodemia pela Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS). A grande maioria dos trabalhos 
desenvolvidos para lidar com desinformação são focados para a língua inglesa. A fim de preencher 
essa lacuna, este trabalho investiga estratégias baseadas em aprendizado de máquina supervisionado 
para detectar desinformação em tweets escritos na língua portuguesa. Além disso, criou-se um 
corpus que foi manualmente anotado para esta tarefa, a fim de avaliar as abordagens 
desenvolvidas e compará-las com trabalhos relacionados. Os resultados alcançados são competitivos 
com trabalhos correlatos, indicando que a abordagem produz um interessante baseline para o 
corpus construído.


Detecting Misinformation in Tweets Related to COVID-19

Fake news propagation has been a problem noted in several areas of society, for example, in the fight against the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus (Sars-Cov-2). Combating misinformation, especially on social networks, is fundamental to control the spread of the virus and, consequently, the pandemic. Therefore, this work built supervised learning models focused on identifying fake news about the Sars-Cov-2. As a result, 18 models were built and rated, their reached 0.62%, 0.82%, and 0.47% f-score for the labels considered (news, opinion, and fake).

Fake news detection about Covid-19 in the Portuguese language

We present and make available pre-trained language models (Phraser, Word2Vec, Doc2Vec, FastText, and BERT) for the Brazilian legal language, a Python package with functions to facilitate their use, and a set of demonstrations/tutorials containing some applications involving them. Given that our material is built upon legal texts coming from several Brazilian courts, this initiative is extremely helpful for the Brazilian legal field, which lacks other open and specific tools and language models. Our main objective is to catalyze the use of natural language processing tools for legal texts analysis by the Brazilian industry, government, and academia, providing the necessary tools and accessible material.

LegalNLP - Natural Language Processing methods for the Brazilian Legal Language

Curriculum learning consists of training strategies for machinelearning techniques in which the easiest observations are presented first, progressing into more difficult cases as training proceeds. For assemblingthe curriculum, it is necessary to order the observations a dataset has ac-cording to their difficulty. This work investigates how instance hardnessmeasures, which can be used to assess the difficulty level of each obser-vation in a dataset from different perspectives, can be used to assemble acurriculum. Experiments with four CIFAR-100 sub-problems have demon-strated the feasibility of using the instance hardness measures, the mainadvantage is on convergence speed and some datasets accuracy gains canalso be verified.

Using instance hardness measures in curriculum learning

Predicting the stance of social media users on a topic can be challenging, especially for unsupervised cases. In this work, retweeted posts were used as elements of user interaction, to calculate the similarities between the most active within a discussion. Stance detection for these users was performed using dimensionality reduction and clustering techniques, topic modeling using contextual embeddings, and automatic cluster labeling based on recurring terms in each group. This approach produced a small number of user clusters (between 2 and 3), with uniformity in user labeling in different bases greater than 98%.

Automatic Twitter Stance Detection on Politically Controversial Issues: A Study on Covid-19's CPI

The development of new communication networks to offer
innovative services has increased the volume of data. With the introduction of
Deep Reinforcement Learning and Service Function Chaining architecture,
new research opportunities have emerged to propose solutions to the new
challenges. This work proposes a model to demonstrate through
computational simulations how these techniques can be applied. The model
was evaluated using two variations of the Deep Q-Network algorithm over the
CIC-Darknet dataset. Results showed that both variations are a promising
mechanism to make the networks more autonomous and intelligent.

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