The Encouragement Award will be presented to students who presented their research at the online research presentation held at the 5th (2023) Japan E-Commerce Association National Research Presentation Conference. A total of 17 students were awarded this year.

Encouragement Award winners (in no particular order)

• Tokai University: Naoki Kushima Calculating CO2 reductions through bicycle delivery

• Tokai University: Kairu Mineshima: Building a scoring system for baseball players using emotion analysis

• Tokai University: Rikuto Sakata, Research on the operational efficiency of in-stadium deliveries

• Tokai University: Ryota Matsuo Type classification of store reviews on Google Maps

• Tokai University: Ryoichi Yoshida Analysis of access logs from an E-SPORTS website

• Tokai University: Reiko Akaishi Efficiency evaluation of delivery staff

• Waseda University: Yuto Nunome, Customer purchasing behavior analysis using review data

• Waseda University: Taisuke Nakamura Review analysis method using query-oriented summarization model and LDA

• Waseda University: Ayako Yamagiwa Product image ranking estimation and image map creation using active learning

• Waseda University: Kirin Tsuchiya A study on the relationship between customer preferences and image features based on latent class models

• Waseda University: Akiko Yoneda A study on the relationship between purchasing intent and response to coupons

• Waseda University: Taichi Abe Proposal of a Bayesian optimal selection bias correction method for questionnaire data analysis

• Waseda University: Tomotaka Amano A study on prediction algorithms for extreme weather tags based on multitask learning

• Waseda University: Kosuke Sakurai Image classification method using region embedding with large-scale image language model

• Waseda University: Akihiro Yamada Label correction method for providing appropriate job type information on online job sites

• Waseda University: Shogo Chomei A study on the effect of nonlinear data on Neural Matrix Factorization

• Kinki University: Hikaru Fukunaga Development and evaluation of a chat commerce system using headless commerce

Congratulations to all the award winners!