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Philip wins Amazon Research Award

April 28, 2021 Linguistics

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Support for research on topic modeling in relation to COVID-19.

Congratulations to Philip Resnik, one of 101 scientists to receive an Amazon Research Award for 2020, his in the area of Natural Language Processing. The award goes towards Philip's work on "Advanced topic modeling to support the understanding of COVID-19 and its effects," and gives him "access to more than 200 Amazon public datasets, [...] AWS AI/ML services and tools," as well as "an Amazon research contact who offers consultation and advice along with opportunities to participate in Amazon events and training sessions." This is not Philip's first award from Amazon: in 2018, he received an Amazon Machine Learning Research Award on "Tackling the AI Mental Health Data Crisis."

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Philip receives Amazon Research Award

Philip Resnik's project on "Tackling the AI Mental Health Data Crisis" will be supported by an Amazon Machine Learning Research Award.