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AI Called on to Mine Massive Coronavirus Dataset, CORD-19 Posted on : Apr 07 - 2020

Working with a coalition of government, academic, and industry leaders, the White House this week released COVID-19 Open Research Data (CORD-19), a massive collection of 29,000 scholarly articles about the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. By releasing the data, leaders hope scientific researchers will be able to accelerate development of treatment for COVID-19 using AI techniques.

CORD-19 represents “the most extensive machine-readable Coronavirus literature collection available for data and text mining to date, with over 29,000 articles, more than 13,000 of which have full text,” the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy stated in a press release Monday.

“Decisive action from America’s science and technology enterprise is critical to prevent, detect, treat, and develop solutions to COVID-19,” the U.S. CTO, Michael Kratsios, said in the press release. “We thank each institution for voluntarily lending its expertise and innovation to this collaborative effort, and call on the United States research community to put artificial intelligence technologies to work in answering key scientific questions about the novel Coronavirus.”

Multiple groups have volunteered to host the CORD-19 dataset, including Microsoft Research, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Kaggle, which is owned by Google. View More