Soccer’s AI transformation: deep learning’s analysis of soccer’s pandemic research evolution

Frontiers in Psychology

Psychology

Sangmin Song¹  Doug Hyun Han²  YoungBin Kim³  Seung-Bo Park⁴  Jea Woog Lee⁵ 

[1] Department of Artificial Intelligence, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea;Department of Psychiatry, Chung Ang University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea;Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia and Film, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea;Graduate School of Sports Medicine, CHA University, Seongnam-si, Republic of Korea;Intelligent Information Processing Lab, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea;

关键词: soccer;    football;    pandemic;    COVID-19;    research trend;    topic modeling;    BERT;    data science;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1244404

 received in 2023-07-31, accepted in 2023-09-13,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

IntroductionThis paper aims to identify and compare changes in trends and research interests in soccer articles from before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsWe compared research interests and trends in soccer-related journal articles published before COVID-19 (2018–2020) and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021–2022) using Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) topic modeling.ResultsIn both periods, we categorized the social sciences into psychology, sociology, business, and technology, with some interdisciplinary research topics identified, and we identified changes during the COVID-19 pandemic period, including a new approach to home advantage. Furthermore, Sports science and sports medicine had a vast array of subject areas and topics, but some similar themes emerged in both periods and found changes before and during COVID-19. These changes can be broadly categorized into (a) Social Sciences and Technology; (b) Performance training approaches; (c) injury part of body. With training topics being more prominent than match performance during the pandemic; and changes within injuries, with the lower limbs becoming more prominent than the head during the pandemic.ConclusionNow that the pandemic has ended, soccer environments and routines have returned to pre-pandemic levels, but the environment that have changed during the pandemic provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners in the field of soccer to detect post-pandemic changes and identify trends and future directions for research.

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