Published on in Vol 8, No 3 (2022): March

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/36119, first published .
Identifying COVID-19 Outbreaks From Contact-Tracing Interview Forms for Public Health Departments: Development of a Natural Language Processing Pipeline

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

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

John Caskey   1 , PhD ;   Iain L McConnell   1 , PhD ;   Madeline Oguss   1 , MSc ;   Dmitriy Dligach   2 , PhD ;   Rachel Kulikoff   3 , MPH ;   Brittany Grogan   3 , MPH ;   Crystal Gibson   3 , MPH ;   Elizabeth Wimmer   4 , BSc ;   Traci E DeSalvo   4 , MPH ;   Edwin E Nyakoe-Nyasani   4 ;   Matthew M Churpek   1 , MD, MPH, PhD ;   Majid Afshar   1 , MD, MSc

1 University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, United States

2 Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

3 Public Health Madison & Dane County, Madison, WI, United States

4 State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Madison, WI, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Majid Afshar, MD, MSc
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison
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  • Email: majid.afshar@wisc.edu