Extracting a Knowledge Base of Mechanisms from COVID-19 Papers (2021.naacl-main)
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Tom Hope, Aida Amini, David Wadden, Madeleine van Zuylen, Sravanthi Parasa, Eric Horvitz, Daniel Weld, Roy Schwartz, Hannaneh Hajishirzi
| Challenge: | COVID-19 has spawned a diverse body of scientific literature that is challenging to navigate . researchers are using automated tools to help find useful knowledge . |
| Approach: | They develop a schema to extract mechanism relations from scientific papers . their search engine, dataset and code are publicly available . |
| Outcome: | The proposed schema outperforms PubMed search in clinical trials. |
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