Social Media as an Instant Source of Feedback on Water Quality

This paper focuses on an important environmental challenge; namely, water quality by analyzing the potential of social media as an immediate source of feedback. The main goal of the work is to automatically analyze and retrieve social media posts relevant to water quality with particular attention t...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2022-07
Main Authors: Khubaib Ahmad, Ayub, Muhammad Asif, Ahmad, Kashif, Khan, Jebran, Nasir, Ahmad, Al-Fuqaha, Ala
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coders
Digital media
Feedback
Genetic algorithms
Neural networks
Optimization
Particle swarm optimization
Smell
Social networks
Water quality
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Summary:This paper focuses on an important environmental challenge; namely, water quality by analyzing the potential of social media as an immediate source of feedback. The main goal of the work is to automatically analyze and retrieve social media posts relevant to water quality with particular attention to posts describing different aspects of water quality, such as watercolor, smell, taste, and related illnesses. To this aim, we propose a novel framework incorporating different preprocessing, data augmentation, and classification techniques. In total, three different Neural Networks (NNs) architectures, namely (i) Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), (ii) Robustly Optimized BERT Pre-training Approach (XLM-RoBERTa), and (iii) custom Long short-term memory (LSTM) model, are employed in a merit-based fusion scheme. For merit-based weight assignment to the models, several optimization and search techniques are compared including a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), a Genetic Algorithm (GA), Brute Force (BF), Nelder-Mead, and Powell's optimization methods. We also provide an evaluation of the individual models where the highest F1-score of 0.81 is obtained with the BERT model. In merit-based fusion, overall better results are obtained with BF achieving an F1-score score of 0.852. We also provide comparison against existing methods, where a significant improvement for our proposed solutions is obtained. We believe such rigorous analysis of this relatively new topic will provide a baseline for future research.
ISSN:2331-8422