Automated approaches to analyzing scientific topics

Overview

Development stage

PilotSource: b) Pilot – The use case has been deployed in a limited test or pilot capacity.

High-impact designation

Not high-impactSource: c) Not high-impact

Impact justification

Not reported

Start date

2023-02 (month precision)Source: Feb-23

Withheld from public reporting

NoSource: a) No

Mission

Topic area

Administrative Functions

Operational functions

No function tag matched Derived by keyword rules; see methodology

Problem the AI is intended to solve

Slow and inefficient means by which decision makers are able to evaluate portfolios

Expected benefits

Assist decision makers in analyzing topics in their portfolios

System outputs

Recommendation

Technology

AI classification

Natural language processingSource: Natural Language Processing: AI that processes, interprets, and shares information in human language.

System name(s)

Not reported

Custom-developed code

Yes

Public source code

Not reported

Sourcing

How it was built

Contract and in-houseSource: c) Developed with both contracting and in-house resources

Vendor (as reported)

Lexical Intelligence, LLC

Vendors (standardized)

None on the standard list

A vendor is the supplier named by the agency. It does not identify the underlying model or AI technology.

Data and privacy

Involves PII

No

Privacy Impact Assessment

Not reported

Authorization to Operate

No

Demographic features

k) None of the above

Training and evaluation data

Biomedical publications and preprints from PubMed and select publicly available preprint servers, grants titles and abstracts from IMPACII, and patent data from USPTO

Federal Data Catalog

Not reported

Governance

0 of 8 minimum-practice questions answered. A blank answer means the agency reported nothing; it does not mean the practice is absent.

Potential impacts and how they were identified

Not reported