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COVID-19 Q&A and CORD-19

· 54 min · Episode 84

Episode COVID-19 Q&A and CORD-19

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So many AI developers are coming up with creative, useful COVID-19 applications during this time of crisis. Among those are Timo from Deepset-AI and Tony from Intel. They are working on a question answering system for pandemic-related questions called COVID-QA. In this episode, they describe the system, related annotation of the CORD-19 data set, and ways that you can contribute!

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Featuring:

• Timo Möeller – GitHub, LinkedIn • Tony Reina – GitHub, LinkedIn • Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X • Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• COVID-QA • CORD-19 • Episode featuring SpaCy • Sentence transformers • Episode on BERT • German BERT from Deepset-AI • Hugging Face Transformers • Haystack from Deepset-AI • Deepmind molecular structure with RL project

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