Read the Web
Research Project at Carnegie Mellon University

NELL: Never-Ending Language Learning

Browse the Knowledge Base!

Can computers learn to read? We think so. "Read the Web" is a research project that attempts to create a computer system that learns over time to read the web. Since January 2010, our computer system called NELL (Never-Ending Language Learner) has been running continuously, attempting to perform two tasks each day:

• First, it attempts to "read," or extract facts from text found in hundreds of millions of web pages (e.g., playsInstrument(George_Harrison, guitar)).
• Second, it attempts to improve its reading competence, so that tomorrow it can extract more facts from the web, more accurately.

So far, NELL has accumulated over 50 million candidate beliefs by reading the web, and it is considering these at different levels of confidence. NELL has high confidence in 2,810,379 of these beliefs — these are displayed on this website. It is not perfect, but NELL is learning. You can track NELL's progress below or @cmunell on Twitter, browse and download its knowledge base, read more about our technical approach, or join the discussion group.

Recently-Learned Facts

instance	iteration	date learned	confidence
protection_engineering is an area of study within the field of machine learning	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
fastcompany is a publication	1111	06-jul-2018	90.7
gary_stefan is a North American person	1111	06-jul-2018	91.6
poker_casino_bonuses is a sports game	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
n6_7_00 is a time	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
republic is a country also known as yugoslav_federation	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
assurant is a company in the economic sector of insurance	1114	25-aug-2018	93.1
projector looks like dvd	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
miller001 was born in the city orleans	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
umass_minutemen_mens_basketball hired john_calipari	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0