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By Stephanie Kanowitz Apr 29, 2021 Members of Montgomery County, Md.’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) are using an artificial intelligence-based system to find COVID-related items in Twitter posts that may call for action. As part of research by a team from Brigham Young University (BYU), George Mason University (GMU), the University of Texas (UT) at Austin and Virginia Tech University, CERT volunteers dubbed the Virtual Emergency Response Team (VERT) are tagging tweets based on relevance to help train the AI to recognize data that indicates a situation that emergency response may want to know about. Under a grant from the National Science Foundation to study human-AI teaming in emergency response, the researchers had been studying how the AI platform, called CitizenHelper, would work during natural disasters. Last fall, though, they shifted to focus on COVID-19 and spent six months studying tweets posted in the National Capital Region that could indicate COVID-ri

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