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    Automatic text-independent Kannada dialect identification system
    (Springer Verlag service@springer.de, 2019) Chittaragi, N.B.; Limaye, A.; Chandana, N.T.; Annappa, B.; Koolagudi, S.G.
    This paper proposes a dialect identification system for the Kannada language. A system that can automatically identify the dialects of the language being spoken has a wide variety of applications. However, not many Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and dialect identification tasks are carried out in majority of the Indian languages. Further, there are only a few good quality annotated audio datasets available. In this paper, a new dataset for 5 spoken dialects of the Kannada language is introduced. Spectral and prosodic features have captured the most prominent features for recognition of Kannada dialects. Support Vector Machine (SVM) and neural networks algorithms are used for modeling text-independent recognition system. A neural network model that attempts for identification dialects based on sentence level cues has also been built. Hyper-parameters for SVM and neural network models are chosen using grid search. Neural network models have outperformed SVMs when complete utterances are considered. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019.
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    Kannada Dialect Identification from Case-Based Word Utterances Using Gradient Boosting Algorithm
    (Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022) Chittaragi, N.B.; Koolagudi, S.G.
    Dialects or accents constitute the grammatical variations along with phonological and lexical changes those are commonly observed in the usage of a language with minor and subtle differences. Dialectal variations existing among dialects are mainly due to unique speaking patterns followed among the group of speakers. The dialect processing systems are essential in the development of automatic speech recognition systems (ASRs) for regional and resource-constrained languages in the country like India. Since India is with rich diversity in languages. In this paper, a language-dependent dialect identification system is proposed for Kannada language from words especially with the Kannada language-specific case (Vibhakthi Prathyayas) information. Special morphological operations that exist in the Kannada language in terms of various cases commonly called as a grammatical function of a noun or pronoun. These word utterances are used for the classification of five dialects of Kannada. This is a novel idea to use the smaller word utterances that consist of dialect-specific information representing the unique characteristics. In this paper, case-based word utterance dataset is prepared by considering five Kannada dialects from Kannada Dialect Speech Corpus (KDSC). Dynamic and static prosodic features are extracted to capture dialectal variations. Addition to these features, spectral MFCC features are also considered for evaluation of differences among dialects from these word-level units. Initially, multi-class Support vector machine (SVM) technique is used and later effective extreme gradient boosting (XGB) ensemble algorithms are used for the development of an automatic Kannada dialect recognition system. The research findings have demonstrated the words with case information convey dialect specific linguistic cues effectively. The combination of dynamic and static prosodic cues has a significant effect on the characterization of dialects along with spectral features. © 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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    Support vector machine applications in the field of hydrology: A review
    (Elsevier BV, 2014) Naganna, S.; Deka, P.C.
    In the recent few decades there has been very significant developments in the theoretical understanding of Support vector machines (SVMs) as well as algorithmic strategies for implementing them, and applications of the approach to practical problems. SVMs introduced by Vapnik and others in the early 1990s are machine learning systems that utilize a hypothesis space of linear functions in a high dimensional feature space, trained with optimization algorithms that implements a learning bias derived from statistical learning theory. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art and focuses over a wide range of applications of SVMs in the field of hydrology. To use SVM aided hydrological models, which have increasingly extended during the last years; comprehensive knowledge about their theory and modelling approaches seems to be necessary. Furthermore, this review provides a brief synopsis of the techniques of SVMs and other emerging ones (hybrid models), which have proven useful in the analysis of the various hydrological parameters. Moreover, various examples of successful applications of SVMs for modelling different hydrological processes are also provided. © 2014 Elsevier B.V.
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    Current approaches of artificial intelligence in breakwaters - A review
    (Techno Press technop2@chollian.net, 2017) Kundapura, S.; Hegde, A.V.
    A breakwater has always been an ideal option to prevent shoreline erosion due to wave action as well as to maintain the tranquility in the lagoon area. The effects of the impinging wave on the structure could be analyzed and evaluated by several physical and numerical methods. An alternate approach to the numerical methods in the prediction of performance of a breakwater is Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. In the recent decade many researchers have implemented several Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in the prediction of performance, stability number and scour of breakwaters. This paper is a comprehensive review which serves as a guide to the current state of the art knowledge in application of soft computing techniques in breakwaters. This study aims to provide a detailed review of different soft computing techniques used in the prediction of performance of different breakwaters considering various combinations of input and response variables. © 2017 Techno-Press, Ltd.
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    Genetic algorithm based support vector machine regression in predicting wave transmission of horizontally interlaced multi-layer moored floating pipe breakwater
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2012) Patil, S.G.; Mandal, S.; Hegde, A.V.
    Planning and design of coastal protection works like floating pipe breakwater require information about the performance characteristics of the structure in reducing the wave energy. Several researchers have carried out analytical and numerical studies on floating breakwaters in the past but failed to give a simple mathematical model to predict the wave transmission through floating breakwaters by considering all the boundary conditions. Computational intelligence techniques, such as, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), fuzzy logic, genetic programming and Support Vector Machine (SVM) are successfully used to solve complex problems. In the present paper, a hybrid Genetic Algorithm Tuned Support Vector Machine Regression (GA-SVMR) model is developed to predict wave transmission of horizontally interlaced multilayer moored floating pipe breakwater (HIMMFPB). Furthermore, optimal SVM and kernel parameters of GA-SVMR models are determined by genetic algorithm. The GA-SVMR model is trained on the data set obtained from experimental wave transmission of HIMMFPB using regular wave flume at Marine Structure Laboratory, National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, Surathkal, Mangalore, India. The results are compared with ANN and Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) models in terms of correlation coefficient, root mean square error and scatter index. Performance of GA-SVMR is found to be reliably superior. b-spline kernel function performs better than other kernel functions for the given set of data. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    Prediction of daily pan evaporation using support vector machines
    (CAFET INNOVA Technical Society cafetinnova@gmail.com 1-2-18/103, Mohini Mansion, Gagan Mahal Road, Domalguda, Hyderabad 500029, 2014) Pammar, L.; Deka, P.C.
    Water scarcity globally has lead to severe problems in water management. Understanding the rate of evaporation, from surface water resources is essential for precise management of the water balance. However, evaporation is difficult to measure experimentally due to its nature. Preparing reliable forecasts of evaporation has become an essential element towards efficient water management. The objective of this paper is to predict daily pan evaporation using different kernel functions of Support Vector Machines (SVM's) based regression approach for the meteorological data obtained for the region 'Lake Abaya' which is located in the Great Rift Valley, southern part of Ethiopia. The meteorological parameters considered for study includes daily details of mean-temperature (T), wind speed (W), sunshine hours (Sh), relative humidity (Rh), rainfall (P). Among the kernel functions used for study, the polynomial kernel function proved its credibility by showing improved performance in training and testing periods. The evidence for performance of polynomial kernel function was seen in terms of correlation coefficient (CC) obtained for training and testing is respectively 0.940, 0.956 which is acceptable. © 2014 CAFET-INNOVA TECHNICAL SOCIETY.
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    Fault diagnosis of deep groove ball bearing through discrete wavelet features using support vector machine
    (COMADEM International rajbknrao@btinternet.com, 2014) Vernekar, K.; Kumar, H.; Gangadharan, K.V.
    Bearings are the most important and frequently used machine components in most of the rotating machinery. In industry, breakdown of such crucial components causes heavy losses. So prevention of failure of such components is very essential. This paper presents an online fault detection of a bearing used in an internal combustion engine through machine learning approach using vibration signals of bearing in healthy and simulated faulty conditions. Vibration signals are acquired from bearing in healthy as well as different simulated fault conditions of bearing. The Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) features were extracted from vibration signals using MATLAB program. Decision tree technique (J48 algorithm) has been used for important feature selection out of extracted DWT features. Support vector machine is being used as a classifier and obtained results found with classification accuracy of 98.67%.The advantage of machine learning technique for fault diagnosis over conventional vibration analysis approach has demonstrated in this paper.
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    A novel sentiment analysis of social networks using supervised learning
    (Springer-Verlag Wien michaela.bolli@springer.at, 2014) Anjaria, M.; Guddeti, R.M.R.
    Online microblog-based social networks have been used for expressing public opinions through short messages. Among popular microblogs, Twitter has attracted the attention of several researchers in areas like predicting the consumer brands, democratic electoral events, movie box office, popularity of celebrities, the stock market, etc. Sentiment analysis over a Twitter-based social network offers a fast and efficient way of monitoring the public sentiment. This paper studies the sentiment prediction task over Twitter using machine-learning techniques, with the consideration of Twitter-specific social network structure such as retweet. We also concentrate on finding both direct and extended terms related to the event and thereby understanding its effect. We employed supervised machine-learning techniques such as support vector machines (SVM), Naive Bayes, maximum entropy and artificial neural networks to classify the Twitter data using unigram, bigram and unigram + bigram (hybrid) feature extraction model for the case study of US Presidential Elections 2012 and Karnataka State Assembly Elections (India) 2013. Further, we combined the results of sentiment analysis with the influence factor generated from the retweet count to improve the prediction accuracy of the task. Experimental results demonstrate that SVM outperforms all other classifiers with maximum accuracy of 88 % in predicting the outcome of US Elections 2012, and 68 % for Indian State Assembly Elections 2013. © 2014, Springer-Verlag Wien.
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    Particle Swarm Optimization based support vector machine for damage level prediction of non-reshaped berm breakwater
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2015) Narayana, N.; Mandal, S.; Rao, S.; Patil, S.G.
    The damage analysis of coastal structure is very much essential for better and safe design of the structure. In the past, several researchers have carried out physical model studies on non-reshaped berm breakwaters, but failed to give a simple mathematical model to predict damage level for non-reshaped berm breakwaters by considering all the boundary conditions. This is due to the complexity and non-linearity associated with design parameters and damage level determination of non-reshaped berm breakwater. Soft computing tools like Artificial Neural Network, Fuzzy Logic, Support Vector Machine (SVM), etc, are successfully used to solve complex problems. In the present study, SVM and hybrid of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) with SVM (PSO-SVM) are developed to predict damage level of non-reshaped berm breakwaters. Optimal kernel parameters of PSO-SVM are determined by PSO algorithm. Both the models are trained on the data set obtained from experiments carried out in Marine Structures Laboratory, Department of Applied Mechanics and Hydraulics, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India. Results of both models are compared in terms of statistical measures, such as correlation coefficient, root mean square error and scatter index. The PSO-SVM model with polynomial kernel function outperformed other SVM models. © 2014 Elsevier B.V.
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    Computer-aided diagnosis system for tissue characterization of brain tumor on magnetic resonance images
    (Springer London, 2015) Arakeri, M.P.; Guddeti, G.R.M.
    The manual analysis of brain tumor on magnetic resonance (MR) images is time-consuming and subjective. Thus, to avoid human errors in brain tumor diagnosis, this paper presents an automatic and accurate computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system based on ensemble classifier for the characterization of brain tumors on MR images as benign or malignant. Brain tumor tissue was automatically extracted from MR images by the proposed segmentation technique. A tumor is represented by extracting its texture, shape, and boundary features. The most significant features are selected by using information gain-based feature ranking and independent component analysis techniques. Next, these features are used to train the ensemble classifier consisting of support vector machine, artificial neural network, and k-nearest neighbor classifiers to characterize the tumor. Experiments were carried out on a dataset consisting of T1-weighted post-contrast and T2-weighted MR images of 550 patients. The developed CAD system was tested using the leave-one-out method. The experimental results showed that the proposed segmentation technique achieves good agreement with the gold standard and the ensemble classifier is highly effective in the diagnosis of brain tumor with an accuracy of 99.09 % (sensitivity 100 % and specificity 98.21 %). Thus, the proposed system can assist radiologists in an accurate diagnosis of brain tumors. © 2013, Springer-Verlag London.