Using active learning and an agent-based system to perform interactive knowledge extraction based on the COVID-19 corpus

Abstract Efficient knowledge extraction from Big Data is quite a challenging topic. Recognizing relevant concepts from unannotated data while considering both context and domain knowledge is critical to implementing successful knowledge extraction. In this research, we provide a novel platform we call Active Learning Integrated with Knowledge Extraction (ALIKE) that overcomes the challenges of context awareness and concept extraction, which have impeded knowledge extraction in Big Data. We propose a method to extract related concepts from unorganized data with different contexts using multiple agents, synergy, reinforcement learning, and active learning. We test ALIKE on the datasets of the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge. The experiment result suggests that the ALIKE platform can more efficiently distinguish inherent concepts from different papers than a non-agent-based method (without active learning) and that our proposed approach has a better chance to address the challenges of knowledge extraction with heterogeneous datasets. Moreover, the techniques used in ALIKE are transferable across any domain with multidisciplinary activity.