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.
Transcription of emergency calls
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Emergency Response Centre
Natural language processing
Security
2019
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A kratt transcribes the calls made to 112.
Transkribus
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National Archives of Estonia
Natural language processing
Culture
2018
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Transkribus transforms historical manuscripts into machine-readable format and allows for information to be searched from historical texts.
Translation tool in Land Register search portal
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Centre of Registers and Information Systems
Tilde
Natural language processing
Law
2021
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The new machine translation solution makes it easier for non-Estonian speaking citizens to understand register data. The tool helps e-Land Register users to understand detailed information such as servitudes and mortgages. The tool is based on a neural network. Machine translation establishes connections using a large database and continuously improves itself over time by refining its vocabulary and thereby increasing the quality of translation. It is important to note that the official language of the register is Estonian, which means that the translated text is informative and has no legal meaning.
Translation tool in e-Business Register
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Centre of Registers and Information Systems
Trinidad Wiseman OÜ, Inversion OÜ, Estonian Tax and Customs Board, Ministry of Justice, Tartu County Court Registration Department
Natural language processing
Economy
2020
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With the introduction of the new e-Business Register portal, a translation kratt was developed. Upon opening a court order, the translation kratt translates all the unique information contained therein into English, directly on the computer screen. The new self-improving functionality offers a convenient way to understand the content of the document in a single view. The translation kratt takes specific terms into consideration, thereby saving entrepreneurs the valuable time typically spent on manual translation.
Transport robots in the hospital
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Tartu University Hospital
University of Tartu Institute of Technology
Robotics
Health
2022
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The researchers at the University of Tartu Institute of Technology have developed hospital robots that help reduce the workload of healthcare workers and transport samples from the ICU to the laboratory. There are many tasks that can be automated in a hospital. For example, the robots can deliver medicines and food to patients or guide them to the right room. By delegating the task of transporting samples between intensive care units and the laboratory to a dedicated transport robot, nurses and carers can use the time previously spent on logistics to take care of patients.
Treatment invoice database
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Estonian Health Insurance Fund
Natural language processing
Health
2019
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Pilot project for analysing the treatment invoice database.
Verification of treatment invoices
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Estonian Health Insurance Fund
Forecast model
Health
2019
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The Health Insurance Fund has been using machine learning since late 2019 to verify treatment invoices in order to prevent and detect potential fraud or errors.
Vesta
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National Library of Estonia
Intelligent Technologies OÜ
Chatbot
Culture
2019
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The National Library of Estonia receives a number of enquiries and requests for information on a daily basis. These enquiries often feature repetitive patterns and recurring topics, and the amount of human resources needed to address them is unreasonable. The National Library of Estonia receives approximately 14,000 emails containing questions each year. As a result of the project, a prototype of an AI-based application was developed, which was capable of sorting incoming enquiries by topic and providing answers to first-level enquiries with recurring patterns.
Water level monitoring
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Environment Agency
Forecast model
Environment
2019
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As part of the project, a prototype for operational flood monitoring was developed using remote sensing radar data and water level remote sensing data to improve hydrological monitoring and marine forecasting services. Hydrological monitoring includes on-site measurements of water levels and flow rates at national hydrometry stations. When combined, the water level remote sensing prototypes enable remote sensing data, the forecast model and artificial intelligence to be used to ensure better water level information for interested parties and the public. Integrating altimetry data into hydrological monitoring would help to improve the spatial coverage of surveying on major lakes and improve the accuracy of sea level forecasting.
Wildfire risk reduction
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Ministry of the Interior
Estonian Research Council
Forecast model
Security
2019
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The project resulted in the creation of three prototypes: 1) fire risk assessment and forecast; 2) fire spread algorithm; 3) determination and assessment of damage to ecosystems and damage avoided.
Word cloud generator
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Institute of the Estonian Language
Natural language processing
Culture
2022
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The kratt listens to oral presentations and generates a word cloud of the most frequently used words.
tekstiks.ee
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TalTech Laboratory of Language Technology
Natural language processing
Education
2021
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Public online speech recognition service of the TalTech Laboratory of Language Technology that can be used to convert audio files into text. The system is fully automatic and capable of processing multiple recordings simultaneously.