AI called up in coronavirus fight -- GCN

To help fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the administration is calling on the nation's artificial intelligence and machine learning experts to help scientists tease insights out of the growing troves of scholarly research into the virus. A machine-readable dataset of over 29,000 peer-reviewed articles, 13,000 of which are full text, has been compiled by partners in the initiative. Microsoft identified and gathered worldwide scientific efforts and results; the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative provided access to pre-publication content; while the National Library of Medicine opened access its content. Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology helped coordinate the effort along with the Allen Institute for AI, which also transformed the content into machine-readable form, making the corpus ready for analysis and study, according to a White House statement. Updated daily, the CORD-19 dataset is available on the Allen Institute's SemanticScholar, a site that uses AI-powered search to help researchers find relevant studies and machine learning tools that identify connections between papers.