The University of Tokyo, the Think Tank and Corporate Public Relations Strategy Research Institute (Director, Kentaro Miura, Tokyo) and the Big Data Analysis Hotlink (President, Yuki Uchiyama, Tokyo) within the PR company Dentsu Public Relations have responded to social agreements and policy formation. Started joint research to analyze big data on social media using artificial intelligence.
According to Hotlink, the three parties will use the social media data provided by Hotlink and data analysis technology using AI to start developing methods to extract and analyze social and innovation issues of high interest on social media. ..
At the same time, we conducted a survey of members of the Diet and other parties involved in policy making, and studied how public opinion on social media affects social consensus building and actual policy making, creating innovation and society. The company aims to accelerate problem resolution.
Professor Ichiro Sakata of the Graduate School of Engineering, who is the director of the Innovation Policy Research Center from the University of Tokyo, will join the research.Regarding big data analysis using AI in the area of social consensus building, we aim to announce certain results at the end of 2017.