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    On smoothing and scaling language model for sentiment based information retrieval

    Sentiment analysis or opinion mining refers to the discovery of sentiment information within textual documents, tweets, or review posts. This field has emerged with the social media outgrowth which becomes of ...

    Fatma Najar, Nizar Bouguila in Advances in Data Analysis and Classification (2023)

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    Occupancy estimation in smart buildings using predictive modeling in imbalanced domains

    This paper introduces a novel approach for occupancy estimation in smart buildings. In particular, we focus on the challenging yet common situation where the amount of training data is small and imbalanced (i....

    Jiaxun Guo, Manar Amayri, Fatma Najar in Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humani… (2023)

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    Bounded multivariate generalized Gaussian mixture model using ICA and IVA

    A bounded multivariate generalized Gaussian mixture model with a full covariance matrix is proposed for modeling data in a bounded support region. For model selection, we propose minimum message length criteri...

    Ali Algumaei, Muhammad Azam, Fatma Najar in Pattern Analysis and Applications (2023)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Sparse Generalized Dirichlet Prior Based Bayesian Multinomial Estimation

    The popularity of count data is accompanied by its challenging nature such as high-dimensionality and sparsity. Multinomial distribution and extensions are widely applied for modeling data with multivariate co...

    Fatma Najar, Nizar Bouguila in Advanced Data Mining and Applications (2022)

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    A statistical framework for few-shot action recognition

    Along with the exponential growth of online video creation platforms such as Tik Tok and Instagram, state of the art research involving quick and effective action/gesture recognition remains crucial. This work...

    Mark Haddad, Vahid K. Ghassab, Fatma Najar in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2021)

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    Sparse Document Analysis Using Beta-Liouville Naive Bayes with Vocabulary Knowledge

    Smoothing the parameters of multinomial distributions is an important concern in statistical inference tasks. In this paper, we present a new smoothing prior for the Multinomial Naive Bayes classifier. Our app...

    Fatma Najar, Nizar Bouguila in Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2021 (2021)

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    Collapsed Gibbs Sampling of Beta-Liouville Multinomial for Short Text Clustering

    With the rise of social media, we have access to more and more text data collected through platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The abundance of these data comes along with short texts challenges. We propose i...

    Samar Hannachi, Fatma Najar, Koffi Eddy Ihou in Advances and Trends in Artificial Intellig… (2021)

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    Short Text Clustering Using Generalized Dirichlet Multinomial Mixture Model

    The Artificial Intelligence field is under the spotlight as of its wide use and efficiency in solving real world problems. As of this decade, a notable rise in the amounts of data collected, which were made av...

    Samar Hannachi, Fatma Najar, Nizar Bouguila in Recent Challenges in Intelligent Informati… (2021)

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    A new hybrid discriminative/generative model using the full-covariance multivariate generalized Gaussian mixture models

    Discriminative models have been shown to be more advantageous for pattern recognition problem in machine learning. For this study, the main focus is develo** a new hybrid model that combines the advantages o...

    Fatma Najar, Sami Bourouis, Nizar Bouguila, Safya Belghith in Soft Computing (2020)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Happiness Analysis with Fisher Information of Dirichlet-Multinomial Mixture Model

    Emotion recognition requires robust feature representation and discriminative classification models. In this paper, we consider Fisher vectors for feature representation and Fisher scoring algorithm for learni...

    Fatma Najar, Nizar Bouguila in Advances in Artificial Intelligence (2020)

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    Image Categorization Using Agglomerative Clustering Based Smoothed Dirichlet Mixtures

    With the rapid growth of multimedia data and the diversity of the available image contents, it becomes necessary to develop advanced machine learning algorithms for the purpose of categorizing and recognizing ...

    Fatma Najar, Nizar Bouguila in Advances in Visual Computing (2020)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Generalized Inverted Dirichlet Optimal Predictor for Image Inpainting

    Predicting a given pixel from surrounding neighbouring pixels is of great interest for several image processing tasks. Previous works focused on develo** different Gaussian based models. Simultaneously, in r...

    Omar Graja, Fatma Najar, Nizar Bouguila in Advances in Visual Computing (2020)

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    Flexible Statistical Learning Model for Unsupervised Image Modeling and Segmentation

    We propose in this work to improve the tasks of image segmentation and modeling through an unsupervised flexible learning approach. Our focus here is to develop an alternative mixture model based on a bounded ...

    Ines Channoufi, Fatma Najar, Sami Bourouis in Mixture Models and Applications (2020)

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    Online Recognition via a Finite Mixture of Multivariate Generalized Gaussian Distributions

    The huge amount of data expanding day by day entail creating powerful real-time algorithms. Such algorithms allow a reactive processing between the input multimedia data and the system. In particular, we are m...

    Fatma Najar, Sami Bourouis, Rula Al-Azawi, Ali Al-Badi in Mixture Models and Applications (2020)

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    Unsupervised learning of finite full covariance multivariate generalized Gaussian mixture models for human activity recognition

    We propose in this paper to recognize human activities through an unsupervised learning of finite multivariate generalized Gaussian mixture model. We address an important cue in finite mixture model which is t...

    Fatma Najar, Sami Bourouis, Nizar Bouguila in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2019)

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    Unsupervised Human Action Categorization Using a Riemannian Averaged Fixed-Point Learning of Multivariate GGMM

    We present a novel learning algorithm for Human action recognition and categorization. Our purpose here is to develop a Riemannian Averaged Fixed-Point estimation algorithm (RA-FP) for learning the multivariat...

    Fatma Najar, Sami Bourouis, Atef Zaguia, Nizar Bouguila in Image Analysis and Recognition (2018)