Artificial Intelligence in Action: Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic with Natural Language Processing.
Annu Rev Biomed Data Sci
; 4: 313-339, 2021 07 20.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1346098
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic has had a significant impact on society, both because of the serious health effects of COVID-19 and because of public health measures implemented to slow its spread. Many of these difficulties are fundamentally information needs; attempts to address these needs have caused an information overload for both researchers and the public. Natural language processing (NLP)-the branch of artificial intelligence that interprets human language-can be applied to address many of the information needs made urgent by the COVID-19 pandemic. This review surveys approximately 150 NLP studies and more than 50 systems and datasets addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. We detail work on four core NLP tasks information retrieval, named entity recognition, literature-based discovery, and question answering. We also describe work that directly addresses aspects of the pandemic through four additional tasks topic modeling, sentiment and emotion analysis, caseload forecasting, and misinformation detection. We conclude by discussing observable trends and remaining challenges.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Natural Language Processing
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Information Storage and Retrieval
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Reviews
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Annu Rev Biomed Data Sci
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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