The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Awarded Papers (also Invited for IARIA Journals)

A Bibliometric Analysis of Highly Cited and High Impact Blockchain Publications
Samia Aitouche, Yuh-Shan Ho

Intermediate-Task Transfer Learning: Leveraging Sarcasm Detection for Stance Detection
Gibson Nkhata, Susan Gauch

The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Papers Invited for IARIA Journals

Sequence Graph Network for Online Debate Analysis
Quan Mai, Susan Gauch, Douglas Adams, Miaoqing Huang
 
Improving Minority Stress Detection with Emotions
Jonathan Ivey, Susan Gauch