{"id":20427,"date":"2020-06-17T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?p=20427"},"modified":"2023-03-17T07:40:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T14:40:03","slug":"salesforce-research-develops-new-search-engine-to-support-the-fight-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/stories\/salesforce-research-develops-new-search-engine-to-support-the-fight-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce Research Develops New Search Engine to Support the Fight Against COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From February to May 2020, the number of scientific papers published on COVID-19 skyrocketed from 29,000 to more than 138,000. As people around the world step up to help, the number will continue to grow exponentially, with projections to swell to more than 1,000,000 by the end of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s good news for the medical community and policymakers working on vaccines and treatments \u2014 but only if they\u2019re able to efficiently search the growing body of research. As papers are data-rich and can be hundreds of pages long, finding what you’re looking for, in the time crunch of a global pandemic, can be a challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introducing COVID-19 Search<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Salesforce Research utilized the data from the CORD-19 Challenge<\/a> and created COVID-19 Search<\/a>, an AI-powered search engine to equip scientists and researchers with the most relevant COVID-19 research. Sponsored by the White House, and including a number of leading AI and health policy groups – the NIH, Georgetown, AI2, CZI, MSR – the ongoing CORD-19 Challenge<\/a> aims to catalyze the development of search algorithms and engines designed for researchers and policymakers to better understand and combat COVID-19. It maintains the growing corpus of coronavirus-related publications and makes it easily accessible to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This type of initiative aligns nicely with the goals of Salesforce Research<\/a>. In addition to developing technology that powers Salesforce Einstein<\/a>\u2019s product line, a core part of our team works on applying AI to Social Good, including areas such as Healthcare. We believe that by advancing the field of AI, we can serve our broader community and improve the state of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With deep experience in natural language processing (NLP), Salesforce Research pulled together a team of our experts to develop a search engine that would support research efforts as more information pours into public archives. In a few months, Salesforce Research developed COVID-19 Search<\/a> to help users easily search through rigorous scientific information in their efforts to stem the tide of the global pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n

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