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
,
US
2
Loyola University Chicago
,
Chicago
,
IL
,
US
3
Public Health Madison & Dane County
,
Madison
,
WI
,
US
4
State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services
,
Madison
,
WI
,
US
Corresponding Author:
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Majid Afshar, MD, MSc
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
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1685 Highland Avenue
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5158 Medical Foundation Centennial Building
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Madison, WI
-
US
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Phone:
1 3125459462
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Email: majid.afshar@wisc.edu