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Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, large volumes of biomedical information concerning this new disease have been published on social media. Some of this information can pose a real danger to people's health, particularly when false…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Isabelle Mohr , Amelie Wührl , Roman Klinger

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

Humans gather information by engaging in conversations involving a series of interconnected questions and answers. For machines to assist in information gathering, it is therefore essential to enable them to answer conversational questions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Siva Reddy , Danqi Chen , Christopher D. Manning

As the COVID-19 virus quickly spreads around the world, unfortunately, misinformation related to COVID-19 also gets created and spreads like wild fire. Such misinformation has caused confusion among people, disruptions in society, and even…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Limeng Cui , Dongwon Lee

Research into COVID-19 is a big challenge and highly relevant at the moment. New tools are required to assist medical experts in their research with relevant and valuable information. The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19)…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Hermann Kroll , Jan Pirklbauer , Johannes Ruthmann , Wolf-Tilo Balke

With worldwide concerns surrounding the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), there is a rapidly growing body of scientific literature on the virus. Clinicians, researchers, and policy-makers need to be able to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Sean MacAvaney , Arman Cohan , Nazli Goharian

What are the latent questions on some textual data? In this work, we investigate using question generation models for exploring a collection of documents. Our method, dubbed corpus2question, consists of applying a pre-trained question…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Gabriela Surita , Rodrigo Nogueira , Roberto Lotufo

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…

Since late 2019, COVID-19 has quickly emerged as the newest biomedical domain, resulting in a surge of new information. As with other emergent domains, the discussion surrounding the topic has been rapidly changing, leading to the spread of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Sharon Levy , Kevin Mo , Wenhan Xiong , William Yang Wang

We present two new large-scale datasets aimed at evaluating systems designed to comprehend a natural language query and extract its answer from a large corpus of text. The Quasar-S dataset consists of 37000 cloze-style (fill-in-the-gap)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Bhuwan Dhingra , Kathryn Mazaitis , William W. Cohen

In response to the Kaggle's COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) challenge, we have proposed three transformer-based question-answering systems using BERT, ALBERT, and T5 models. Since the CORD-19 dataset is unlabeled, we have evaluated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Hillary Ngai , Yoona Park , John Chen , Mahboobeh Parsapoor

After two years of appearance, COVID-19 has negatively affected people and normal life around the world. As in May 2022, there are more than 522 million cases and six million deaths worldwide (including nearly ten million cases and over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Hai-Chung Nguyen-Phung , Ngoc C. Lê , Van-Chien Nguyen , Hang Thi Nguyen , Thuy Phuong Thi Nguyen

The COVID-19 pandemic has fueled the spread of misinformation on social media and the Web as a whole. The phenomenon dubbed `infodemic' has taken the challenges of information veracity and trust to new heights by massively introducing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Maurício Gruppi , Panayiotis Smeros , Sibel Adalı , Carlos Castillo , Karl Aberer

The outbreak of COVID-19 disease caused more than 100,000 deaths so far in the USA alone. It is necessary to conduct an initial screening of patients with the symptoms of COVID-19 disease to control the spread of the disease. However, it is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-30 Md Manjurul Ahsan , Kishor Datta Gupta , Mohammad Maminur Islam , Sajib Sen , Md. Lutfar Rahman , Mohammad Shakhawat Hossain

Motivated by the lack of publicly available datasets of chest radiographs of positive patients with Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), we build the first-of-its-kind open dataset of synthetic COVID-19 chest X-ray images of high fidelity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-21 Hasib Zunair , A. Ben Hamza

Following the global COVID-19 pandemic, the number of scientific papers studying the virus has grown massively, leading to increased interest in automated literate review. We present a clinical text mining system that improves on previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Veysel Kocaman , David Talby

With worldwide concerns surrounding the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), there is a rapidly growing body of literature on the virus. Clinicians, researchers, and policy-makers need a way to effectively search…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Sean MacAvaney , Arman Cohan , Nazli Goharian

We present QuAC, a dataset for Question Answering in Context that contains 14K information-seeking QA dialogs (100K questions in total). The dialogs involve two crowd workers: (1) a student who poses a sequence of freeform questions to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Eunsol Choi , He He , Mohit Iyyer , Mark Yatskar , Wen-tau Yih , Yejin Choi , Percy Liang , Luke Zettlemoyer

The need for Question Answering datasets in low resource languages is the motivation of this research, leading to the development of Kencorpus Swahili Question Answering Dataset, KenSwQuAD. This dataset is annotated from raw story texts of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Barack W. Wanjawa , Lilian D. A. Wanzare , Florence Indede , Owen McOnyango , Lawrence Muchemi , Edward Ombui

Because of the rapid spread of COVID-19 to almost every part of the globe, huge volumes of data and case studies have been made available, providing researchers with a unique opportunity to find trends and make discoveries like never…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Sarwan Ali , Yijing Zhou , Murray Patterson