• DOI:10.18653/V1/2021.NAACL-MAIN.355
Corpus ID: 222209150

Extracting a Knowledge Base of Mechanisms from COVID-19 Papers

@article{Amini2021ExtractingAK,
  title={Extracting a Knowledge Base of Mechanisms from COVID-19 Papers},
  author={Aida Amini and Tom Hope and David Wadden and Madeleine van Zuylen and E. Horvitz and Roy Schwartz and Hannaneh Hajishirzi},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2021},
  volume={abs/2010.03824}
}

• Aida Amini, Tom Hope, +4 authors Hannaneh Hajishirzi
• Published 2021
• Computer Science
• ArXiv

The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned a diverse body of scientific literature that is challenging to navigate, stimulating interest in automated tools to help find useful knowledge. We pursue the construction of a knowledge base (KB) of mechanisms—a fundamental concept across the sciences, which encompasses activities, functions and causal relations, ranging from cellular processes to economic impacts. We extract this information from the natural language of scientific papers by developing a broad… Expand