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Founded by Paul Allen in 2014

Now 60 People

Research driven by Grand Challenge Problems

Focused on research tasks,

Agnostic on specific mechanisms

The number of scientific papers has doubled every nine years since World War II.

Semantic

index

Tractable

Inference

Search

“Show me all papers where…”

English query

CiteSeer

AMiner

“PMI” ≅ “Pointwise Mutual Information”

“Open IE” ⊂ “Information Extraction”

Entropy Overlap

Context

Similarity Vector

Topic Similarity

Vector

Weights

Mikolov2013 Downey2015

“What if a cure for an intractable cancer is hidden within the tedious reports on

thousands of clinical studies?

Allen Institute for Artificial IntelligenceWired Magazine, September, 2015