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The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a rapidly growing 'infodemic' of health information online. This has motivated the need for accurate semantic search and retrieval of reliable COVID-19 information across millions of documents,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Iknoor Singh , Carolina Scarton , Kalina Bontcheva

The recent outbreak of the novel coronavirus is wreaking havoc on the world and researchers are struggling to effectively combat it. One reason why the fight is difficult is due to the lack of information and knowledge. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Jinhyuk Lee , Sean S. Yi , Minbyul Jeong , Mujeen Sung , Wonjin Yoon , Yonghwa Choi , Miyoung Ko , Jaewoo Kang

Objective: This study aims to consider small graphs of concepts and exploit them for expressing graph searches over existing COVID-19-related literature, leveraging the increasing use of graphs to represent and query scientific knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Francesco Invernici , Anna Bernasconi , Stefano Ceri

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…

The entire world is engulfed in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to a significant surge in research experiments, government policies, and social media discussions. A multi-modal information access and data visualization…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Heer Ambavi , Kavita Vaishnaw , Udit Vyas , Abhisht Tiwari , Mayank Singh

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

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…

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) began in Wuhan, China, in late 2019 and to date has infected over 148M people worldwide, resulting in 3.12M deaths. On March 10, 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared it as a global…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Sanku Satya Uday , Satti Thanuja Pavani , T. Jaya Lakshmi , Rohit Chivukula

We present Covidex, a search engine that exploits the latest neural ranking models to provide information access to the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset curated by the Allen Institute for AI. Our system has been online and serving users since…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Edwin Zhang , Nikhil Gupta , Raphael Tang , Xiao Han , Ronak Pradeep , Kuang Lu , Yue Zhang , Rodrigo Nogueira , Kyunghyun Cho , Hui Fang , Jimmy Lin

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

During this pandemic situation, extracting any relevant information related to COVID-19 will be immensely beneficial to the community at large. In this paper, we present a very important resource, COVIDRead, a Stanford Question Answering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Tanik Saikh , Sovan Kumar Sahoo , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

We present COVID-SEE, a system for medical literature discovery based on the concept of information exploration, which builds on several distinct text analysis and natural language processing methods to structure and organise information in…

In today's high-choice media environment, search engines play an integral role in informing individuals and societies about the latest events. The importance of search algorithms is even higher at the time of crisis, when users search for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Mykola Makhortykh , Aleksandra Urman , Roberto Ulloa

TREC-COVID is a community evaluation designed to build a test collection that captures the information needs of biomedical researchers using the scientific literature during a pandemic. One of the key characteristics of pandemic search is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Ellen Voorhees , Tasmeer Alam , Steven Bedrick , Dina Demner-Fushman , William R Hersh , Kyle Lo , Kirk Roberts , Ian Soboroff , Lucy Lu Wang

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching effects throughout society, and science is no exception. The scale, speed, and breadth of the scientific community's COVID-19 response has lead to the emergence of new research literature…

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused severe impacts on health systems worldwide. Its critical nature and the increased interest of individuals and organizations to develop countermeasures to the problem has led to a surge of new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Marcos V. L. Pivetta

As scientists worldwide search for answers to the overwhelmingly unknown behind the deadly pandemic, the literature concerning COVID-19 has been growing exponentially. Keeping abreast of the body of literature at such a rapidly advancing…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Chaomei Chen

In recent years, with the appearance of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous publications relevant to this disease have been issued. Because of the massive volume of publications, an efficient retrieval system is necessary to provide researchers…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Hoang-An Trieu , Dinh-Truong Do , Chau Nguyen , Vu Tran , Minh Le Nguyen

The COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed the rapid dissemination of papers and preprints investigating the disease and its associated virus, SARS-CoV-2. The multifaceted nature of COVID-19 demands a multidisciplinary approach, but the urgency of the…

Keeping track of scientific challenges, advances and emerging directions is a fundamental part of research. However, researchers face a flood of papers that hinders discovery of important knowledge. In biomedicine, this directly impacts…