Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Classification of Biomedical Articles in Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. (arXiv:2201.03017v2 [cs.CL] UPDATED)

MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is a large thesaurus created by the National
Library of Medicine and used for fine-grained indexing of publications in the
biomedical domain. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, MeSH descriptors
have emerged in relation to articles published on the corresponding topic.
Zero-shot classification is an adequate response for timely labeling of the
stream of papers with MeSH categories. In this work, we hypothesise that rich
semantic information available in MeSH has potential to improve BioBERT …

arxiv classification covid covid-19 pandemic