AI use cases
In recent years, AI solutions have been implemented in the public sector of Estonia around 120 times. Around 60 public authorities have implemented projects with an AI component to improve the efficiency of their work. The page of use cases provides a brief overview of completed AI projects.
Siimuke: customer enquiry classifier
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Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications
MEAC, PBGB, RIA, ETCB, Environmental Board, Defence Resources Agency, ARIB, National Library of Estonia, Social Insurance Board, Statistics Estonia, Health Board, Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority, Texta, Net Group
Forecast model
Economy
2021
Completed
An analysis and a pilot project, conducted on behalf of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, were completed to explore the automation of directing enquiries from citizens and businesses to the appropriate authorities and officials. Thanks to the project, people will not have to know which specific authority or official to contact in the future. Siimuke thus helps to reduce the time spent to respond to enquiries and serves as a precondition for the adoption of Bürokratt across public authorities.
Speech recognition in radiology
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North Estonia Medical Centre
Tallinn University of Technology
Natural language processing
Health
2015
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The kratt helps doctors write down examination results through dictation. The vocabulary used in examination descriptions is generally very specific and fairly predictable. The whole essence of speech recognition technology is based on probability. The software listens to the person's speech and tries to find which written word is most likely to match the sound it hears. Medical jargon may be difficult for the average person, but it has a more limited range of words, which makes it more likely that the software will spell it correctly.
Superhands - Road salinity derivation
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Teede Tehnokeskus AS
Superhands, Leanest
Forecast model
Environment
2022
In development
Sensors and AI derive the salinity of the road surface and help save resources.
Sälli
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National Heritage Board
STACC OÜ
Forecast model
Culture
2019
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The National Heritage Board developed a new prototype called Sälli that helps preserve museum artifacts in the best way. A forecast model that helps predict the ageing of museum artifacts was created.
Texta Toolkit
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Ministry of Education and Research
Texta OÜ
Natural language processing
Education
2018
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Texta Toolkit is an open-source toolkit for accessing and analysing free text (big) data. The software is designed to process information from different areas. The Ministry of Education and Research performed a document management audit using the Texta Toolkit, which was aimed at identifying the documents that had been published without authorisation (eg internal documents, personal data etc).
Threat assessment assistant
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Emergency Response Centre
MindTitan
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Security
2020
Completed
The processing of emergency notifications is an extensive and complex tasks, which can lead to dispatchers making mistakes and/or spending too much time providing their threat assessment. When providing a threat assessment, the need-to-know of at least three different agencies must be taken into consideration to dispatch resources, while also processing the emergency call within one minute. Gathering information in a time-constrained environment is challenging for people, thus reducing errors is of critical importance. The threat assessment tool of the Emergency Response Centre is an AI-based software application that helps to provide the dispatcher with the most likely scenario by transcribing the incoming call and taking into account previous actions.
Tool detecting possible VAT fraud
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Estonian Tax and Customs Board
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Economy
2021
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The tool detects potential VAT fraud. The purpose of the project was to identify inaccurately filed VAT refund claims, whether done intentionally (fraud) or due to human error. The developed machine learning model enables scoring of future VAT refund claims, allowing the determination of the probability of whether a refund claim is correctly or incorrectly filed.
Tool detecting possible envelope wage payers
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Estonian Tax and Customs Board
MindTitan
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Economy
2019
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The Estonian Tax and Customs Board leverages AI for more efficient tax collection. The tool for detecting possible envelope wage payers identifies potential payers of envelope wages using a risk model.
Tool for customer calls
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Estonian Health Insurance Fund
Feelingstream OÜ
Natural language processing
Health
2019
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A kratt for analysing conversations with customers at The Estonian Health Insurance Fund.
Traffic sign detection
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Estonian Road Administration
Teede Tehnokeskus
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Security
2018
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The project used machine vision to identify road signs.
Transcription and analysis of customer calls
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Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund
Feelingstream OÜ
Natural language processing
Economy
2019
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A kratt for transcribing and analysing customer chats in the Unemployment Insurance Fund.
Transcription of crisis hotline 1247
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Emergency Response Centre
SMIT
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Security
2020
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As part of the project, crisis hotline calls were transcribed and analysed to collect data for the development of future kratts.