Evidence-Based Recommender System for a COVID-19 Publication Analytics Service

Autor: Prasad Calyam, Aditya P. Biswal, Mauro Lemus Alarcon, Vidya Gundlapalli, Roland Oruche, Abhiram Malladi, Naga Ramya Bhamidipati, Hariharan Regunath, Yuanxun Zhang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: IEEE Access, Vol 9, Pp 79400-79415 (2021)
ISSN: 2169-3536
Popis: The rapid growth of COVID-19 publications has driven clinical researchers and healthcare professionals in pursuit to reduce the knowledge gap on reliable information for effective pandemic solutions. The manual task of retrieving high-quality publications based on the evidence pyramid levels, however, presents a major bottleneck in researchers’ workflows. In this paper, we propose an “evidence-based” recommender system namely, KnowCOVID-19 that utilizes an edge computing service to integrate recommender modules for data analytics using end-user thin-clients. The edge computing service features chatbot-based web interface that handles a given COVID-19 publication dataset using two recommender system modules: (i) evidence-based filtering that observes domain specific topics across the literature and classifies the filtered information according to a clinical category, and (ii) social filtering that allows diverse experts with similar objectives to collaborate via a “social plane” to jointly find answers to critical clinical questions to fight the pandemic. We compare the Domain-specific Topic Model (DSTM) used in our evidence-based filtering with state-of-the-art models considering the CORD-19 dataset (a COVID-19 publication archive) and show improved generalization effectiveness as well as knowledge pattern query effectiveness. In addition, we conduct a comparison study between a manual literature review process and the KnowCOVID-19 augmented process, and evaluate the benefits of our information retrieval techniques over important queries provided by COVID-19 clinical experts.
Databáze: OpenAIRE