COVID-19 Q&A and CORD-19
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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 – Twitter), GitHub), LinkedIn), Website)

• Daniel Whitenack – Twitter), GitHub), Website)

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)

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