Jason Portenoy


2020

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SciSight: Combining faceted navigation and research group detection for COVID-19 exploratory scientific search
Tom Hope | Jason Portenoy | Kishore Vasan | Jonathan Borchardt | Eric Horvitz | Daniel Weld | Marti Hearst | Jevin West
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations

The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked unprecedented mobilization of scientists, generating a deluge of papers that makes it hard for researchers to keep track and explore new directions. Search engines are designed for targeted queries, not for discovery of connections across a corpus. In this paper, we present SciSight, a system for exploratory search of COVID-19 research integrating two key capabilities: first, exploring associations between biomedical facets automatically extracted from papers (e.g., genes, drugs, diseases, patient outcomes); second, combining textual and network information to search and visualize groups of researchers and their ties. SciSight has so far served over 15K users with over 42K page views and 13% returns.

2016

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Delineating Fields Using Mathematical Jargon
Jevin West | Jason Portenoy
Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL)