Third webinar in the EU Datathon series
On 14 May, the EU Datathon 2021 [http://op.europa.eu/eudatathon]
hosted their third webinar featuring Eugeniu Costechi who presented
the Euro-COVID19 dataset for Natural Language Processing (NLP). This
dataset can be used for tackling all challenges of the EU Datathon.

Eugeniu talked about  the SemCovid project, funded by the
Publications Office of the European Union. The project publicly
provides the open-source code and the data to establish a semantic
mapping of the EU and its Member States in responding to the pandemic.
In doing so, the project aims to answer: “How do the COVID-19
measures compare between Member States and across the EU in terms of
issues they address, and the degree of content similarity?”. In
addition, the project aims to pinpoint what the emerging topics
currently are, how they evolved over time, and what actions are
undertaken by which actors.

The Euro-COVID19 dataset includes information of COVID-19 measures and
metadata which enables users to answer the aforementioned questions,
by methods such as text mining and NLP.

Curious to learn more? Have a look at the recording
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm-_VHJrS6M&t=1s]and stay tuned for
upcoming last webinar with the Directorate-General for Justice and
Consumers (DG JUST)
[https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/justice-and-consumers_en].  

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Publication Date/Time
2021-05-19T06:00:00+00:00
Featuring: Eugeniu Costechi (Publications Office of the European
Union)