To spur new AI tools to fight coronavirus, tech leaders launch open database of scientific articles
Five organizations on Monday released a new open dataset of over 29,000 scientific articles published in journals and on preprint servers, in the hopes of spurring America’s artificial intelligence experts to develop new techniques for mining data and text that could help answer some of the most pressing questions about the novel coronavirus and the disease it causes.
The dataset is believed to be the most extensive collection of its kind concerning the coronavirus, and, crucially, it’s machine-readable, a format that can be easily processed by a computer and thus makes it much easier for AI specialists to work with.
