Identifying COVID-19 Outbreaks From Contact-Tracing Interview Forms for Public Health Departments: Development of a Natural Language Processing Pipeline

John Caskey; Iain L. McConnell; Madeline Oguss; Dmitriy Dligach; Rachel Kulikoff; Brittany Grogan; Crystal Gibson; Elizabeth Wimmer; Traci E. DeSalvo; Edwin E. Nyakoe-Nyasani; Matthew M. Churpek; Majid Afshar

doi:10.2196/36119

Identifying COVID-19 Outbreaks From Contact-Tracing Interview Forms for Public Health Departments: Development of a Natural Language Processing Pipeline

John Caskey
, Iain L. McConnell
, Madeline Oguss
, Dmitriy Dligach
, Rachel Kulikoff
, Brittany Grogan
, Crystal Gibson
, Elizabeth Wimmer
, Traci E. DeSalvo
, Edwin E. Nyakoe-Nyasani
, Matthew M. Churpek
, Majid Afshar

Department of Computer Science

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Original language	English
Article number	e36119
Journal	JMIR public health and surveillance
Volume	8
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2196/36119
State	Published - Mar 1 2022

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Health Informatics
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Keywords

contact tracing
COVID-19
digital health
digital surveillance tool
disease surveillance
electronic surveillance
named entity recognition
natural language processing
neural language model
outbreaks
public health
public health informatics

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Caskey, J., McConnell, I. L., Oguss, M., Dligach, D., Kulikoff, R., Grogan, B., Gibson, C., Wimmer, E., DeSalvo, T. E., Nyakoe-Nyasani, E. E., Churpek, M. M., & Afshar, M. (2022). Identifying COVID-19 Outbreaks From Contact-Tracing Interview Forms for Public Health Departments: Development of a Natural Language Processing Pipeline. JMIR public health and surveillance, 8(3), Article e36119. https://doi.org/10.2196/36119

Caskey, J, McConnell, IL, Oguss, M, Dligach, D, Kulikoff, R, Grogan, B, Gibson, C, Wimmer, E, DeSalvo, TE, Nyakoe-Nyasani, EE, Churpek, MM & Afshar, M 2022, 'Identifying COVID-19 Outbreaks From Contact-Tracing Interview Forms for Public Health Departments: Development of a Natural Language Processing Pipeline', JMIR public health and surveillance, vol. 8, no. 3, e36119. https://doi.org/10.2196/36119

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