SciSight: Combining faceted navigation and research group detection for COVID-19 exploratory scientific search

Tom Hope, Jason Portenoy, Kishore Vasan, Jonathan Borchardt, Eric Horvitz, Daniel Weld, Marti Hearst, Jevin West


Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked unprecedented mobilization of scientists, generating a deluge of papers that makes it hard for researchers to keep track and explore new directions. Search engines are designed for targeted queries, not for discovery of connections across a corpus. In this paper, we present SciSight, a system for exploratory search of COVID-19 research integrating two key capabilities: first, exploring associations between biomedical facets automatically extracted from papers (e.g., genes, drugs, diseases, patient outcomes); second, combining textual and network information to search and visualize groups of researchers and their ties. SciSight has so far served over 15K users with over 42K page views and 13% returns.
Anthology ID:
2020.emnlp-demos.18
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
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October
Year:
2020
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Online
Editors:
Qun Liu, David Schlangen
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
135–143
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-demos.18
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-demos.18
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Tom Hope, Jason Portenoy, Kishore Vasan, Jonathan Borchardt, Eric Horvitz, Daniel Weld, Marti Hearst, and Jevin West. 2020. SciSight: Combining faceted navigation and research group detection for COVID-19 exploratory scientific search. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, pages 135–143, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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SciSight: Combining faceted navigation and research group detection for COVID-19 exploratory scientific search (Hope et al., EMNLP 2020)
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