Dr Emmanuele Chersoni’s Project on COVID-19 Vaccine Opinion Analysis Selected as Champion Project of the WSIS Prizes 2022
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Conducted by Dr Chersoni Emmanuele (Research Assistant Professor of CBS), Dr Enrico Santus (CBS PhD graduate) and the team of the University of Udine in Italy, a project on using Natural Language Processing technologies for monitoring and analysing COVID-19 vaccine opinions on Twitter has been selected as one of the five champion projects under the E-science category of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes 2022.
Directly sponsored by the United Nations, the WSIS Prizes 2022 is a global event that recognises WSIS stakeholders by identifying and showcasing their successful and impactful ICT-related implementation of the WSIS Action Lines and Sustainable Development Goals. Out of a thousand submitted proposals, the team’s work was first nominated together with 19 other outstanding projects that promote beneficial ICT applications and subsequently selected as one of the five champion projects in the field of E-science.
