“Three months into the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s scientific knowledge of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is rapidly expanding. Reports of potential vaccines and treatments sprout up almost daily. Thousands of papers have been pouring into Semantic Scholar’s COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), a collection of nearly 60,000 scientific publications of potential relevance to the topic, both historical and cutting-edge….
To help accelerate scientific discovery with visualization, last month we launched SciSight, a framework of exploratory search and visualization tools for the COVID-19 literature. The first version of SciSight supported exploring associations between biomedical concepts appearing in the literature. In preliminary user interviews, the tool was found helpful in discovery-oriented search. We now release two important updates of SciSight….”