Research team celebrating NELL's first birthday, January 2011
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Acknowledgements
We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of many collaborators and funders to the Read the Web effort...
Richard Wang provided us with code for his SEAL system, which is one of the primary learning components in NELL. NELL also makes use of the half billion web pages in the ClueWeb09 corpus, which is provided by Professor Jamie Callan and his students.
Financial support for our research has been provided in part by DARPA, NSF, Google, and the Brazilian agency CNPq. Graduate fellowships have been provided by Yahoo!, Microsoft Research, and Google. We thank Google and Bing for making the API's to their search engines available to NELL. We also thank Yahoo! for making their Yahoo!’s M45 computing cluster available to NELL in the past, and for their generous donation of 50 computer servers to CMU, to provide hardware support for NELL.
This website and most of its features were designed and developed by Burr Settles with Bryan Kisiel.
Current Research Team
 | Tom Mitchell Professor |
 | William Cohen Professor |
 | Estevam Hruschka, Jr. Professor (USFCar, Brazil) |
 | Burr Settles Postdoctoral Fellow |
 | Partha Talukdar Postdoctoral Fellow |
 | Ndapa Nakashole Postdoctoral Fellow |
 | Alan Ritter Postdoctoral Fellow |
 | Justin Betteridge PhD Student (Language Technologies Institute) |
 | Matt Gardner PhD Student (Language Technologies Institute) |
 | Jayant Krishnamurthy PhD Student (Computer Science Department) |
 | Edith Law PhD Student (Machine Learning Department) |
 | Derry Wijaya PhD Student (Language Technologies Institute) |
 | Anthony Platanios PhD Student (Machine Learning Department) |
 | Abu Saparov PhD Student (Machine Learning Department) |
 | Bryan Kisiel Research Programmer |
 | Siddharth Varia Research Programmer |
 | Shashank Srivastava PhD Student (Machine Learning Department) |
 | Bill McDowell Research Programmer |
Project Alumni
 | Andrew Carlson PhD 2010 (Machine Learning Department) — now at Google |
 | Weam Abu Zaki MS 2009 (Information Networking Institute) |