Coronaprofile: Can AI speed up the hunt for COVID-19 research results? (Science Business)

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Throughout the research world, artificial intelligence is increasingly being applied to scanning complicated scientific literature more quickly than humans alone can do. At Utrecht University, Prof. Rens van de Schoot and his team are part of an international research community now applying that technology to COVID-19 publications.

In an edited email exchange with Diane M. Fresquez of Science|Business, van de Schoot talks about his work, and search for collaborators (have you got coding talent?) – initially, while under lockdown with his three children, aged six and under, who played quietly (or not so quietly) underfoot.