Opinions in reviews about the quality of products or services can be important information for readers. Unfortunately, such opinions may include deceptive ones posted for some business reasons. To keep the opinions as a valuable and trusted source of information, we propose an approach to detecting deceptive and truthful opinions. Specifically, we explore the use of word and character n-gram combinations, function words, and word syntactic n-grams (word sn-grams) as features for classifiers to deal with this task. We also consider applying word correction to our utilized dataset. Our experiments show that classification results of using the word and character n-gram combination features could perform better than those of employing other features. Although the experiments indicate that applying the word correction might be insignificant, we note that the deceptive opinions tend to have a smaller number of error words than the truthful ones. To examine robustness of our features, we then perform cross-classification tests. Our latter experiments results suggest that using the word and character n-gram combination features could work well in detecting deceptive and truthful opinions. Interestingly, the latter experimental results also indicate that using the word sn-grams as combination features could give good performance.

This paper presents the participation of DBMS-KU Interpolation system in WMT19 shared task, namely, Kazakh-English language pair. We examine the use of interpolation method using a different language model order. Our Interpolation system combines a direct translation with Russian as a pivot language. We use 3-gram and 5-gram language model orders to perform the language translation in this work. To reduce noise in the pivot translation process, we prune the phrase table of source-pivot and pivot-target. Our experimental results show that our Interpolation system outperforms the Baseline in terms of BLEU-cased score by +0.5 and +0.1 points in Kazakh-English and English-Kazakh, respectively. In particular, using the 5-gram language model order in our system could obtain better BLEU-cased score than utilizing the 3-gram one. Interestingly, we found that by employing the Interpolation system could reduce the perplexity score of English-Kazakh when using 3-gram language model order.

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This paper describes the participation of DBMS-KU team in the SemEval 2019 Task 9, that is, suggestion mining from online reviews and forums. To deal with this task, we explore several machine learning approaches, i.e., Random Forest (RF), Logistic Regression (LR), Multinomial Naive Bayes (MNB), Linear Support Vector Classification (LSVC), Sublinear Support Vector Classification (SSVC), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), and Variable Length Chromosome Genetic Algorithm-Naive Bayes (VLCGA-NB). Our system obtains reasonable results of F1-Score 0.47 and 0.37 on the evaluation data in Subtask A and Subtask B, respectively. In particular, our obtained results outperform the baseline in Subtask A. Interestingly, the results seem to show that our system could perform well in classifying Non-suggestion class.