Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares


2020

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Knowledge Discovery in COVID-19 Research Literature
Alejandro Piad-Morffis | Suilan Estevez-Velarde | Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares | Yoan Gutiérrez | Andrés Montoyo | Rafael Muñoz | Yudivián Almeida-Cruz
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 (Part 2) at EMNLP 2020

This paper presents the preliminary results of an ongoing project that analyzes the growing body of scientific research published around the COVID-19 pandemic. In this research, a general-purpose semantic model is used to double annotate a batch of 500 sentences that were manually selected by the researchers from the CORD-19 corpus. Afterwards, a baseline text-mining pipeline is designed and evaluated via a large batch of 100,959 sentences. We present a qualitative analysis of the most interesting facts automatically extracted and highlight possible future lines of development. The preliminary results show that general-purpose semantic models are a useful tool for discovering fine-grained knowledge in large corpora of scientific documents.