Intelligent Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Management

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 2577

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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Data analytics is essential in many business organisations, academic institutions, as well as R&D departments, as it allows them to identify, assess, and extract actionable information. In particular, data analytics plays a crucial role in innovation creation and knowledge discovery. However, they are often defined by various properties, which are context-dependent and therefore difficult to scientifically and methodologically pinpoint.  Furthermore, innovative knowledge discovery overlaps with several disciplines and research fields, which require bespoke approaches to address the common interdependencies. This Special Issue focuses on the multidisciplinary methods, frameworks and applications applied to the identification, assessment and prediction of knowledge discovery and management and innovation creation and impact.

Topics of interest in this Special Issue include, but are not limited to: 

  1. Data analytics for knowledge management and discovery;
  2. Business analytics for innovation creation;
  3. AI methods and implementation for knowledge discovery;
  4. Predictive analytics to identify, store and assess new and innovative knowledge;
  5. Innovative industry 4.0 and digital health applications.

Prof. Dr. Marcello Trovati
Dr. Umar F Khan
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • data analytics
  • knowledge management and discovery
  • innovation
  • business analytics

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SS-BERT: A Semantic Information Selecting Approach for Open-Domain Question Answering
by Xuan Fu, Jiangnan Du, Hai-Tao Zheng, Jianfeng Li, Cuiqin Hou, Qiyu Zhou and Hong-Gee Kim
Electronics 2023, 12(7), 1692; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12071692 - 3 Apr 2023
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Open-Domain Question Answering (Open-Domain QA) aims to answer any factoid questions from users. Recent progress in Open-Domain QA adopts the “retriever-reader” structure, which has proven effective. Retriever methods are mainly categorized as sparse retrievers and dense retrievers. In recent work, the dense retriever [...] Read more.
Open-Domain Question Answering (Open-Domain QA) aims to answer any factoid questions from users. Recent progress in Open-Domain QA adopts the “retriever-reader” structure, which has proven effective. Retriever methods are mainly categorized as sparse retrievers and dense retrievers. In recent work, the dense retriever showed a stronger semantic interpretation than the sparse retriever. When training a dual-encoder dense retriever for document retrieval and reranking, there are two challenges: negative selection and a lack of training data. In this study, we make three major contributions to this topic: negative selection by query generation, data augmentation from negatives, and a passage evaluation method. We prove that the model performs better by focusing on false negatives and data augmentation in the Open-Domain QA passage rerank task. Our model outperforms other single dual-encoder rerankers over BERT-base and BM25 by 0.7 in MRR@10, achieving the highest Recall@50 and the max Recall@1000, which is restricted by the BM25 retrieval results. Full article
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