Data science approaches to confronting the COVID-19 pandemic: a narrative review

Q Zhang, J Gao, JT Wu, Z Cao… - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
During the COVID-19 pandemic, more than ever, data science has become a powerful
weapon in combating an infectious disease epidemic and arguably any future infectious …

Harnessing the power of smart and connected health to tackle COVID-19: IoT, AI, robotics, and blockchain for a better world

F Firouzi, B Farahani, M Daneshmand… - IEEE Internet of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As COVID-19 hounds the world, the common cause of finding a swift solution to manage the
pandemic has brought together researchers, institutions, governments, and society at large …

COVID-fact: Fact extraction and verification of real-world claims on COVID-19 pandemic

A Saakyan, T Chakrabarty, S Muresan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.03794, 2021 - arxiv.org
We introduce a FEVER-like dataset COVID-Fact of $4,086 $ claims concerning the COVID-
19 pandemic. The dataset contains claims, evidence for the claims, and contradictory claims …

[PDF][PDF] No parameter left behind: How distillation and model size affect zero-shot retrieval

GM Rosa, L Bonifacio, V Jeronymo… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - researchgate.net
Recent work has shown that small distilled language models are strong competitors to
models that are orders of magnitude larger and slower in a wide range of information …

In defense of cross-encoders for zero-shot retrieval

G Rosa, L Bonifacio, V Jeronymo, H Abonizio… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Bi-encoders and cross-encoders are widely used in many state-of-the-art retrieval pipelines.
In this work we study the generalization ability of these two types of architectures on a wide …

Yes, bm25 is a strong baseline for legal case retrieval

GM Rosa, RC Rodrigues, R Lotufo… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
arXiv:2105.05686v2 [cs.IR] 25 Oct 2021 Page 1 arXiv:2105.05686v2 [cs.IR] 25 Oct 2021 Yes,
BM25 is a Strong Baseline for Legal Case Retrieval Guilherme Moraes Rosa NeuralMind …

Heterogeneous deep graph convolutional network with citation relational BERT for COVID-19 inline citation recommendation

T Dai, J Zhao, D Li, S Tian, X Zhao, S Pan - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
The outbreak of COVID-19 brings almost the biggest explosions of scientific literature ever.
Facing such volume literature, it is hard for researches to find desired citation when carrying …

Simple yet effective neural ranking and reranking baselines for cross-lingual information retrieval

J Lin, D Alfonso-Hermelo, V Jeronymo… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The advent of multilingual language models has generated a resurgence of interest in cross-
lingual information retrieval (CLIR), which is the task of searching documents in one …

Billions of parameters are worth more than in-domain training data: A case study in the legal case entailment task

GM Rosa, L Bonifacio, V Jeronymo, H Abonizio… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Recent work has shown that language models scaled to billions of parameters, such as GPT-
3, perform remarkably well in zero-shot and few-shot scenarios. In this work, we experiment …

Neuralmind-unicamp at 2022 trec neuclir: Large boring rerankers for cross-lingual retrieval

V Jeronymo, R Lotufo, R Nogueira - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.16145, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper reports on a study of cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) using the mT5-
XXL reranker on the NeuCLIR track of TREC 2022. Perhaps the biggest contribution of this …