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The emergence of the novel COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on global healthcare and the economy over the past few months. The virus's rapid widespread has led to a proliferation in biomedical research addressing the pandemic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Chongyan Chen , Islam Akef Ebeid , Yi Bu , Ying Ding

The TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID) is a TREC-style video analysis and retrieval evaluation with the goal of promoting progress in research and development of content-based exploitation and retrieval of information from digital…

Increasing number of COVID-19 research literatures cause new challenges in effective literature screening and COVID-19 domain knowledge aware Information Retrieval. To tackle the challenges, we demonstrate two tasks along withsolutions,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Arusarka Bose , Zili Zhou , Guandong Xu

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a wave of novel scientific literature that is impossible to inspect and study in a reasonable time frame manually. Current machine learning methods offer to project such body of literature into the vector…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Blaž Škrlj , Marko Jukič , Nika Eržen , Senja Pollak , Nada Lavrač

In this paper, we report the results of our participation in the TREC-COVID challenge. To meet the challenge of building a search engine for rapidly evolving biomedical collection, we propose a simple yet effective weighted hierarchical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Michael Bendersky , Honglei Zhuang , Ji Ma , Shuguang Han , Keith Hall , Ryan McDonald

Timely access to accurate scientific literature in the battle with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is critical. This unprecedented public health risk has motivated research towards understanding the disease in general, identifying drugs to…

Clinical decision support tools built on electronic health records often experience performance drift due to temporal population shifts, particularly when changes in the clinical environment initially affect only a subset of patients,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Mengying Yan , Ziye Tian , Siqi Li , Nan Liu , Benjamin A. Goldstein , Molei Liu , Chuan Hong

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented response in terms of clinical research activity. An important part of this research has been focused on randomized controlled clinical trials to evaluate potential therapies for COVID-19.…

The race to meet the challenges of the global pandemic has served as a reminder that the existing drug discovery process is expensive, inefficient and slow. There is a major bottleneck screening the vast number of potential small molecules…

Since the beginning of coronavirus, the disease has spread worldwide and drastically changed many aspects of the human's lifestyle. Twitter as a powerful tool can help researchers measure public health in response to COVID-19. According to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Mohamad Zamini

A comprehensive bibliographic review with R statistical methods of the COVID pandemic in PubMed literature and Web of Science Core Collection, supported with Google Scholar search. In addition, a case study review of emerging new approaches…

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an urgent need to contribute to the fight against an immense threat to the human population. Computer Vision, as a subfield of Artificial Intelligence, has enjoyed recent success in solving various…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Anwaar Ulhaq , Asim Khan , Douglas Gomes , Manoranjan Paul

The COVID-19 pandemic is accompanied by a massive "infodemic" that makes it hard to identify concise and credible information for COVID-19-related questions, like incubation time, infection rates, or the effectiveness of vaccines. As a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Johannes Graf , Gino Lancho , Patrick Zschech , Kai Heinrich

Finding relevant literature underpins the practice of evidence-based medicine. From 2014 to 2016, TREC conducted a clinical decision support track, wherein participants were tasked with finding articles relevant to clinical questions posed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Vincent Nguyen , Sarvnaz Karimi , Sara Falamaki , Cecile Paris

The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) which causes COVID-19 is an ongoing pandemic. There are ongoing studies with up to hundreds of publications uploaded to databases daily. We are exploring the use-case of artificial intelligence and natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Yutong Jin , Jie Li , Xinyu Wang , Peiyao Li , Jinjiang Guo , Junfeng Wu , Dawei Leng , Lurong Pan

To evaluate Information Retrieval (IR) effectiveness, a possible approach is to use test collections, which are composed of a collection of documents, a set of description of information needs (called topics), and a set of relevant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Kevin Roitero

The scientific community continues to publish an overwhelming amount of new research related to COVID-19 on a daily basis, leading to much literature without little to no attention. To aid the community in understanding the rapidly flowing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Jong Won Park

We present a forecasting analysis on the growth of scientific literature related to COVID-19 expected for 2021. Considering the paramount scientific and financial efforts made by the research community to find solutions to end the COVID-19…

The abundance of literature related to the widespread COVID-19 pandemic is beyond manual inspection of a single expert. Development of systems, capable of automatically processing tens of thousands of scientific publications with the aim to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Matej Martinc , Blaž Škrlj , Sergej Pirkmajer , Nada Lavrač , Bojan Cestnik , Martin Marzidovšek , Senja Pollak

The global pandemic of COVID-19 has made the public pay close attention to related news, covering various domains, such as sanitation, treatment, and effects on education. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 condition is very different among the…