LT4SG researchers Dr Thushari Atapattu and Menasha Thilakaratne were successfully awarded $20,000 from the South Australian Defence Innovation Partnership under the initiative on ‘AI for decision making’. This research will lead to develop a novel and intelligent glossary generation system to help scientists to explore the knowledge in scientific literature.
In novel areas of interest (e.g. COVID-19), extracting the right information for quick and informed decision-making is an extremely challenging task due to the domain expertise needed and the rapid growth of information available. With an overwhelming abundance of information on a selected topic, glossaries serve as a bridge between the information-seeker and the information itself. The glossary creation process is inherently complex and depends largely on a domain expert’s knowledge and with the abundant and ever-evolving nature of knowledge emerging within scientific domains, manual glossary creation is very labour-intensive.
Our researchers will be using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and in particular novel Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to automatically generate glossaries from a large corpus of scientific articles on COVID-19 in response to user queries. The techniques developed in this project, within the context of COVID-19, are advancing novel AI techniques and applications and can be explored across a whole host of topics and for different purposes.
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