COVID-19-Related Scientific Literature Exploration: Short Survey and Comparative Study

Bahaj Adil; Safae Lhazmir; Mounir Ghogho; Houda Benbrahim

doi:10.3390/biology11081221

COVID-19-Related Scientific Literature Exploration: Short Survey and Comparative Study

Biology (Basel). 2022 Aug 16;11(8):1221. doi: 10.3390/biology11081221.

Authors

Bahaj Adil¹, Safae Lhazmir¹, Mounir Ghogho^{1

2}, Houda Benbrahim³

Affiliations

¹ TicLAB, International University of Rabat, Sala el Jadida 11103, Morocco.
² Faculty of Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
³ ENSIAS, Mohamed V University, Rabat 11000, Morocco.

Abstract

The urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a surge in the related scientific literature. This surge made the manual exploration of scientific articles time-consuming and inefficient. Therefore, a range of exploratory search applications have been created to facilitate access to the available literature. In this survey, we give a short description of certain efforts in this direction and explore the different approaches that they used.

Keywords: COVID-19; document retrieval; exploratory search; machine learning.

Publication types

Review

Grants and funding

This research was funded by the “Hasan II Academy of Science and Technology”.