Ua search engine to track down and consult the over 50 thousand studies, articles and publications on the coronavirus developed by scientists and researchers from all over the world in these weeks of pandemic.
Google has set it up and it is called Covid-19 Research Explorer, it uses semantic research that aims not only to capture keywords but also the relevance of a sentence. An even more important element when talking about medical research. When the user asks an initial question, the platform returns a list of documents, but also fragments of the text (snippets), so that you can quickly get an idea of the search result. The semantic search technology used for this platform is based on Bert, an acronym for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, a system introduced in 2018 by Google in the search engine algorithm that processes information in a natural language, that is, in the way we commonly speak. The system works through an artificial neural network, a computer model that imitates as much as possible the functioning of neurons and the way they communicate and collaborate with each other. Covid-19 Research Explorer is available free of charge for the research community. In the coming months - explains Google - numerous improvements will be made to its use.
Article published on May 5, 2020 - 13:00 pm
