The explosive growth of online education environments is generating a massive volume of
data, specially in text format from forums, chats, social networks, assessments, essays …

Fuzzy systems have been used widely thanks to their ability to successfully solve a wide
range of problems in different application fields. However, their replication and application …

In the era of Web 2.0, huge volumes of consumer reviews are posted to the Internet every
day. Manual approaches to detecting and analyzing fake reviews (ie, spam) are not practical …

Abstract World Wide Web (WWW) constitutes fuzzy information and requires soft computing
techniques to deal context of the query. It works on the principle of keyword matching …

In the era of Web 2.0, there has been an explosive growth of consumer-contributed
comments at social media and electronic commerce Web sites. Applying state-of-the-art …

Globalization has triggered a rapid increase in cross-border mergers and acquisitions
(M&As). However, research shows that only 17 percent of cross-border M& As create …

Customer reviews in social media and electronic commerce Web sites contain valuable
electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) information of products, which facilitates firms' business …

As a model for knowledge description and formalization, ontologies are widely used to
represent user profiles in personalized web information gathering. However, when …

There has been a rapid growth in the number of cybercr imes that cause tremendous
financial loss to organizations. Recent studies reveal that cybercriminals tend to collaborate …

This paper proposes a framework to automatically construct taxonomies from a corpus of text
documents. This framework first extracts terms from documents using a part-of-speech …