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
shamiram_women_s_movement_or_swm is a political party	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
suffolk_saab is an automobile manufacturer	1111	06-jul-2018	95.1
department_work is a research project	1111	06-jul-2018	98.8
ankle_arthrocentesis is a medical procedure	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
baker__s_chocolate is a kind of candy	1111	06-jul-2018	98.5
flowers is an agricultural product produced in china	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
feline_friends is an animal that preys on cat	1113	15-aug-2018	98.4
uga hired richt	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
recluse_spider is called spider_bite	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
ksci is a company that has an office in the city los_angeles_ca	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0