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 , 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:

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