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Google says that COVID-19 Research Explorer can understand complex scientific queries.
James Martin / CNET
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Google has launched a new search tool that aims to make it easier for scientists and researchers to discover information related to the coronavirus. The COVID-19 Research Explorer uses semantic search, a technique that uses artificial intelligence to show meaningful results, to review more than 50,000 journal articles and preprints in the COVID-19 open research dataset.
In a blog post on Monday, Google research scientist Keith Hall wrote that traditional search engines are good at getting real-time information about COVID-19, like the number of cases in the United States, but struggling to understand the meaning behind research-based consultations.
“When the user asks an initial question, the tool not only returns a set of documents (as in a traditional search) but also highlights snippets of the document that are possible answers to the question,” wrote Hall. “The user can review the snippets and quickly make a decision on whether that document is worth reading further.”
Google said the tool also includes a unique feature that allows researchers to ask up to two follow-up questions after displaying their initial results. The tool will be available to the research community in the short term, Google said, but did not provide a specific duration.
COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by coronavirus, has spread rapidly throughout the world. There are now more than 3.6 million confirmed cases globally, with more than 1.1 million in the United States as of Tuesday.
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