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    Text Classification Experiments on Contextual Graphs Built by N-Gram Series
    (Springer International Publishing AG, 2025) Sen, Tarik Uveys; Yakit, Mehmet Can; Gumus, Mehmet Semih; Abar, Orhan; Bakal, Gokhan
    Traditional n-gram textual features, commonly employed in conventional machine learning models, offer lower performance rates on high-volume datasets compared to modern deep learning algorithms, which have been intensively studied for the past decade. The main reason for this performance disparity is that deep learning approaches handle textual data through the word vector space representation by catching the contextually hidden information in a better way. Nonetheless, the potential of the n-gram feature set to reflect the context is open to further investigation. In this sense, creating graphs using discriminative ngram series with high classification power has never been fully exploited by researchers. Hence, the main goal of this study is to contribute to the classification power by including the long-range neighborhood relationships for each word in the word embedding representations. To achieve this goal, we transformed the textual data by employing n-gram series into a graph structure and then trained a graph convolution network model. Consequently, we obtained contextually enriched word embeddings and observed F1-score performance improvements from 0.78 to 0.80 when we integrated those convolution-based word embeddings into an LSTM model. This research contributes to improving classification capabilities by leveraging graph structures derived from discriminative n-gram series.
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    NLP-Driven Fake News Detection: A Machine Learning Perspective
    (IEEE, 2025-05-23) Coban, Mert Korkut; Bakal, Gokhan
    The rapid spread of fake news poses a significant challenge, impacting public opinion, decision-making, and societal trust. This study explores the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques for robust fake news detection. Using datasets such as ISOT Fake News, WELFake, and Football Fake News, the project employs advanced preprocessing methods and feature extraction techniques, including TF-IDF, Word2Vec, and GloVe. A comprehensive evaluation of machine learning models-Random Forest, Support Vector Machines (SVM), and Neural Networks-was conducted to identify the optimal configuration. Results demonstrate that Random Forest with TF-IDF excels in in-domain detection, achieving an F1-score of 99.70%, while Neural Networks paired with Word2Vec and GloVe embeddings outperform in cross-dataset scenarios. The study highlights the importance of dataset size, domain relevance, and feature representation in achieving high generalizability. These findings provide a scalable framework for combating misinformation on digital platforms.
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    Graph-Based Biomedical Knowledge Discovery
    (IEEE, 2024-05-15) Altuner, Osman; Bakir-Gungor, Burcu; Bakal, Gokhan
    The digitalization process is progressing at a very high speed all over the world. While this situation provides many conveniences in today's life, it also brings along a problem such as analyzing and processing the huge digital data. This also applies to published academic studies. In this sense, the process of evaluating each study to access previously unknown information within the studies requires a very laborious process. For this reason, in this study, the publications obtained for the target diseases were analyzed by text analysis processes and converted into a graph structure that enables the linking of meaningful terms through biomedical relationships. On the dense graph structure obtained, binary biomedical entities with important links such as treats, causes, associated_with were queried. The entity pairs obtained according to the query results were also confirmed by manual search method and proved to be real connections. In this study, retrieval of known biomedical entities with the proposed approach solved the time-consuming manual search problem. There is also the potential to obtain unknown/unexplored possible new relationships (e.g., therapeutic, causal, etc.) with multiple binary linking patterns.
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    Combining N-Grams and Graph Convolution for Text Classification
    (Elsevier, 2025-05) Sen, Tarik Uveys; Yakit, Mehmet Can; Gumus, Mehmet Semih; Abar, Orhan; Bakal, Gokhan
    Text classification, a cornerstone of natural language processing (NLP), finds applications in diverse areas, from sentiment analysis to topic categorization. While deep learning models have recently dominated the field, traditional n-gram-driven approaches often struggle to achieve comparable performance, particularly on large datasets. This gap largely stems from deep learning' s superior ability to capture contextual information through word embeddings. This paper explores a novel approach to leverage the often-overlooked power of n-gram features for enriching word representations and boosting text classification accuracy. We propose a method that transforms textual data into graph structures, utilizing discriminative n-gram series to establish long-range relationships between words. By training a graph convolution network on these graphs, we derive contextually enhanced word embeddings that encapsulate dependencies extending beyond local contexts. Our experiments demonstrate that integrating these enriched embeddings into an long-short term memory (LSTM) model for text classification leads to around 2% improvements in classification performance across diverse datasets. This achievement highlights the synergy of combining traditional n-gram features with graph-based deep learning techniques for building more powerful text classifiers.
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    Citation - WoS: 4
    Citation - Scopus: 5
    Beyond Visual Cues: Emotion Recognition in Images With Text-Aware Fusion
    (Elsevier, 2025-04) Sungur, Kerim Serdar; Bakal, Gokhan
    Sentiment analysis is a widely studied problem for understanding human emotions and potential outcomes. As it can be performed over textual data, working on visual data elements is also critically substantial to examining the current emotional status. In this effort, the aim is to investigate any potential enhancements in sentiment analysis predictions through visual instances by integrating textual data as additional knowledge reflecting the contextual information of the images. Thus, two separate models have been developed as image-processing and text-processing models in which both models were trained on distinct datasets comprising the same five human emotions. Following, the outputs of the individual models' last dense layers are combined to construct the hybrid multimodel empowered by visual and textual components. The fundamental focus is to evaluate the performance of the hybrid model in which the textual knowledge is concatenated with visual data. Essentially, the hybrid model achieved nearly a 3% F1-score improvement compared to the plain image classification model utilizing convolutional neural network architecture. In essence, this research underscores the potency of fusing textual context with visual information to refine sentiment analysis predictions. The findings not only emphasize the potential of a multi-modal approach but also spotlight a promising avenue for future advancements in emotion analysis and understanding.
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    Citation - WoS: 16
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    An Empirical Study of Sentiment Analysis Utilizing Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms
    (Springernature, 2023-12-09) Erkantarci, Betul; Bakal, Gokhan
    Among text-mining studies, one of the most studied topics is the text classification task applied in various domains, including medicine, social media, and academia. As a sub-problem in text classification, sentiment analysis has been widely investigated to classify often opinion-based textual elements. Specifically, user reviews and experiential feedback for products or services have been employed as fundamental data sources for sentiment analysis efforts. As a result of rapidly emerging technological advancements, social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit, have become central opinion-sharing mediums since the early 2000s. In this sense, we build various machine-learning models to solve the sentiment analysis problem on the Reddit comments dataset in this work. The experimental models we constructed achieve F1 scores within intervals of 73-76%. Consequently, we present comparative performance scores obtained by traditional machine learning and deep learning models and discuss the results.