Published on in Vol 9, No 2 (2021): February

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/21679, first published .
Lexicon Development for COVID-19-related Concepts Using Open-source Word Embedding Sources: An Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation

Lexicon Development for COVID-19-related Concepts Using Open-source Word Embedding Sources: An Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation

Lexicon Development for COVID-19-related Concepts Using Open-source Word Embedding Sources: An Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation

Soham Parikh   1 * , MS ;   Anahita Davoudi   2 * , MS, PhD ;   Shun Yu   3 , MD ;   Carolina Giraldo   4 , BSc ;   Emily Schriver   5 , MSc ;   Danielle Mowery   6 , MS, PhD

1 School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

2 Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, & Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

3 Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

4 Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States

5 Data Analytics Center, Penn Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States

6 Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, & Informatics, Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

*these authors contributed equally

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