Author:Rangata, Mapitsi R; Sefara, Tshephisho JDate:Feb 2024The amount of data online is increasing as companies generate news articles daily. These news articles contain headlines that have a level of exaggeration aimed to win the readers. In addition, these companies are competing against one another; ...Read more
Author:Ngejane, Hombakazi C; Eloff, JHP; Sefara, Tshephisho J; Marivate, VNDate:Mar 2021Chat-logs are informative digital footprints available on Social Media Platforms (SMPs). With the rise of cybercrimes targeting children, chat-logs can be used to discover and flag harmful behaviour for the attention of law enforcement units. ...Read more
Author:Waldeck, Louis; Van Heerden, Quintin; Holloway, Jennifer PDate:Oct 2020Confronted by poverty, income disparities and mounting demands for basic services such as clean water, sanitation and health care, urban planners in developing countries like South Africa, face daunting challenges. This paper explores the ...Read more
Author:Sefara, Tshephisho J; Rangata, Mapitsi RDate:Oct 2023Exaggerated news titles are used to deceive news readers and spread misleading information. This paper presents a new natural language processing (NLP) technique that identifies exaggerated news titles. The technique uses Jaccard similarity ...Read more
Author:Sefara, Tshephisho J; Zwane, SG; Gama, N; Sibisi, H; Senoamadi, PN; Marivate, VDate:Apr 2021Recent research on the development of machine translation (MT) models has resulted in state-of-the-art performance for many resourced European languages. However, there has been a little focus on applying these MT services to low-resourced ...Read more