ABSTRACT

110The world is experiencing a technological revolution where people have begun to use digital technology in most facets of their life to make their work easier, for entertainment and education, to monitor their health conditions and for assistive driving using self-driving cars, to name a few. Not only using such technologies make our work easier, but they also capable of collecting data on our activities, actions and conditions. This has led to the enormous growth of both structured and unstructured data in formats such as text, images and video for many domains of our life. This data explosion has challenged the research community into finding appropriate methods and algorithms to extract patterns and insights from this abundance of data.