Smart healthcare has achieved significant progress in recent years. Emerging artificial
intelligence (AI) technologies enable various smart applications across various healthcare …

With Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly permeating various aspects of society, including
healthcare, the adoption of the Transformers neural network architecture is rapidly changing …

Scientists are harnessing their multi-disciplinary expertise and resources to fight the COVID-
19 pandemic. Aligned with this mindset, the Covid-on-the-Web project aims to allow …

Chatbots are conversational software applications designed to interact dialectically with
users for a plethora of different purposes. Surprisingly, these colloquial agents have only …

Mining an argument structure from text is an important step for tasks such as argument
search and summarization. While studies on argument (ation) mining have proposed …

In the latest years, the healthcare domain has seen an increasing interest in the definition of
intelligent systems to support clinicians in their everyday tasks and activities. Among others …

Social media contains unfiltered and unique information, which is potentially of great value,
but, in the case of misinformation, can also do great harm. With regards to biomedical topics …

Recent years have witnessed the rise of several new argumentation-based support systems,
especially in the healthcare industry. In the medical sector, it is imperative that the exchange …

Political debates are one of the most salient moments of an election campaign, where
candidates are challenged to discuss the main contemporary and historical issues in a …

Science, technology and innovation (STI) policies have evolved in the past decade. We are
now progressing towards policies that are more aligned with sustainable development …