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To spur new AI tools to fight coronavirus, tech leaders launch open database of scientific articles

The dataset is believed to be the most extensive collection concerning the #coronavirus, and crucially, it’s machine-readable, a format that can be easily processed by a computer.

Five organizations on Monday of over 29,000 scientific articles published in journals and on preprint servers, in the hopes of spurring America’s artificial intelligence experts to develop new techniques for mining data and text that could help answer some of the most pressing questions about the novel

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