COVID-19 Q&A and CORD-19 (Practical AI #84)

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, Bluesky, 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

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!