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Finding interesting association rules is a popular and current topic in data mining. The Apriori family of algorithms is built around two rule extraction measures: support and confidence. Even though these two measures are easy to compute, they yield many rules, the majority of which are redundant and may not be of interest to the user. Also, by themselves, support and confidence do not generate strong rules. Additional measures are required to mine interesting facts from data. Ontologies have become the fundamental building blocks for structuring and formalizing data. With the semantic structuring of information, the implicit relationship between data elements makes the analyst get important facts from the data. Our study proposes a novel framework for interestingness in data by combining domain ontology with semantic interestingness measures. The ontology-based method infers rules that are semantically enriched and strong. We analyze the quality of the rule considering the factors defined by the domain experts. It is observed that our methodology generates semantically enriched rules that are more acceptable to domain experts. © 2022 IEEE.
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Software developers use a variety of social media channels and tools in order to keep themselves up to date, collaborate with other developers, and find projects to contribute to. Meetup is one of such social media used by software developers to organize community gatherings. We in this work, investigate the dynamics of Meetup groups and events related to software development. Our work is different from previous work as we focus on the actual event and group data that was collected using Meetup API. In this work, we performed an empirical study of events and groups present on Meetup which are related to software development. First, we identified 6,327 Meetup groups related to software development and extracted 250,36 9 events organized by them. Then we took a sample of 452 events on which we performed open coding, based on which we were able to develop 9 categories of events (8 main categories +'Others'). Next, we did a popularity analysis of the categories of events and found that Talks by Domain Experts, Hands-on Sessions, and Open Discussions are the most popular categories of events organized by Meetup groups related to software development. Our findings show that more popular categories are those where developers can learn and gain knowledge. On doing a diversity analysis of Meetup groups we found 20.46% of the members on average are female, and 20.34% of the actual event participants are female, which is a larger proportion as compared to numbers reported in previous studies on gender representation in software engineering communities. We also found evidence that the gender of Meetup group organizer affects gender distribution of group members and event participants. Finally, we also looked at some data on how COVID-19 has affected the Meetup activity and found that the event activity has dropped, but not stalled. A substantial number of events are now being organized virtually. The results and insights uncovered in our work can guide future studies related to software communities, groups, and diversity-related studies. © 2022 IEEE.
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The development and popularity of social media have expanded the concept of reputation in the online realm. Yet, domain experts sill lack solutions to manage online reputation. In this paper, we propose an Online Social Network Interactions (OSNI) solution that uses sentiment analysis techniques to assess, monitor, and visualize social media content for online reputation management purposes. To verify and validate the design and architecture of our solution, we present an online reputation management case study of three COVID-19 vaccines;Pfizer BioNTech, Oxford-AstraZeneca, and Johnson Johnson. The analysis of the collected data and the obtained results demonstrate how our OSNI solution contributes to the development of online reputation management. © 2021 IEEE.
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Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME) and SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) algorithms have been widely discussed by the Explainable AI (XAI) community but their application to wider domains are rare, potentially due to the lack of easy-to-use tools built around these methods. In this paper, we present ExMed, a tool that enables XAI data analytics for domain experts without requiring explicit programming skills. It supports data analytics with multiple feature attribution algorithms for explaining machine learning classifications and regressions. We illustrate its domain of applications on two real world medical case studies, with the first one analysing COVID-19 control measure effectiveness and the second one estimating lung cancer patient life expectancy from the artificial Simulacrum health dataset. We conclude that ExMed can provide researchers and domain experts with a tool that both concatenates flexibility and transferability of medical sub-domains and reveal deep insights from data. © 2021 IEEE.