A team from the EBU and HEIG-VD recently won the coveted Best Technical Paper at IBC2025 for their project on an AI chatbot for ‘trusted news’. David Davies finds out more.
From a characteristically well-contested field of 337 submissions – six of which were recently profiled by IBC365 – a Swiss team was awarded the Best Technical Paper for IBC2025. Authors Alexis Allemann and Sebastien Noir from the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), along with Andrei Popescu-Belis from la Haute École d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud (HEIG-VD), collected the accolade. It recognised their work developing an AI chatbot for ‘trusted news’, which was documented in a paper entitled ‘EBU Neo – A sophisticated multilingual chatbot for a trusted news ecosystem exploration’.
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