An overview of literature on COVID-19, MERS and SARS : Using text mining and latent Dirichlet allocation

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)304-320
Journal / PublicationJournal of Information Science
Volume48
Issue number3
Online published31 Aug 2020
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2022

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The unprecedented outbreak of COVID-19 is one of the most serious global threats to public health in this century. During this crisis, specialists in information science could play key roles to support the efforts of scientists in the health and medical community for combatting COVID-19. In this article, we demonstrate that information specialists can support health and medical community by applying text mining technique with latent Dirichlet allocation procedure to perform an overview of a mass of coronavirus literature. This overview presents the generic research themes of the coronavirus diseases: COVID-19, MERS and SARS, reveals the representative literature per main research theme and displays a network visualisation to explore the overlapping, similarity and difference among these themes. The overview can help the health and medical communities to extract useful information and interrelationships from coronavirus-related studies. The Author(s) 2020

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  • COVID-19, latent Dirichlet allocation, literature analysis, MERS, SARS, text mining

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