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+<h1 align="center">Hi 👋, we are the PRAISE Research Group</h1>
+<h3 align="center">Predictive Analytics for Understanding Big Multimedia Data @ University of Naples Federico II</h3>
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+## 🧠 About Us
+
+The **PRAISE (PRedictive AnalytIcs for underStanding big multimEdia data)** research group is part of the **PICUS Lab** at the **Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies (DIETI)**, University of Naples Federico II, Italy.  
+We are a team of researchers with a strong background in **AI**, **multimodal data understanding**, and **predictive analytics** across multiple domains including **eHealth**, **Social Network Analysis**, and **Multimedia Data Analysis**.
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+Our goal is to develop intelligent systems that can **understand**, **predict**, and **interact** with complex multimedia information—especially focusing on language, vision, and their integration.
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+## 🔬 Research Topics
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+- **Multimodal AI for Healthcare**
+  - Multilingual and multimodal language models
+  - Diagnostic and therapeutic AI assistance
+  - Automatic EHR generation from speech and unstructured text (Italian)
+  - Medical image understanding (CT, MRI, X-ray, etc.)
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+- **Social Network Modeling & Simulation**
+  - Generative Agent-Based Frameworks
+  - LLM-driven simulation of social phenomena: stance change, information diffusion
+  - Tools for crowd fact-checking, fake news and harmful content detection
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+- **Lie Detection from Multimedia Streams**
+  - AI for behavioral analysis and deception detection
+  - Collaborative project with US-based Courtscribes Company
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+- **Big Scholarly Data Analytics**
+  - Automated knowledge extraction and semantic enrichment
+  - Development of analytics platforms for scientific literature
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+## 🤖 Models
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+We are currently developing **fine-tuned multimodal language models** for the **Italian medical domain**, in collaboration with national (e.g., Accenture, Almaviva) and international partners (e.g., King’s College London).  
+Our models integrate **textual** and **visual** medical data to support clinical tasks in real-world applications.
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+## 📄 View our papers
+<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0FXky6Cr1RoC" target="_blank">
+  <img alt="Google Scholar" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Google_Scholar-4285F4?style=for-the-badge&logo=googlescholar&logoColor=white">
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+---
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+## 📫 Contact Us
+  
+- 🌐 **Hugging Face Page:** [PRAISELab@PICUSLab](https://huggingface.co/praiselab-picuslab)
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+<h3 align="left">Connect with us:</h3>
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+---
+
+## ⭐ Members
+
+<a href="https://github.com/PRAISELab-PicusLab/.github/graphs/contributors">
+  <img src="https://contrib.rocks/image?repo=PRAISELab-PicusLab/.github" />
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