On 19th July 2019, Hiroaki Igarashi (M2), Department of System Innovation, received the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) 33rd Annual Conference Student Incentive Award (2019).
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<About awarded research>
Title: Construction of Causal Networks for Risk Finding Considering Word Polarities
Introduction: We consider the construction of causal networks about social events making use of text data widely present in this society.
As a prospect, we aim to identify social events that contribute to changes in the performance of a certain company.
<Your impression & future plan>
I am extremely honored to win the prize at JSAI. Without satisfied with this award, I would like to continue my research activities.
https://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/jsai2019/ (Japanese only)
https://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/about/award/jsai_award-conf-s/#CONFERENCE_S (Japanese only)