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NELL: Never-Ending Language Learning

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.

instance	iteration	date learned	confidence
ganapati_festival is a music festival	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
lancia_fulvia_coupe_concept is a kind of vehicle	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
aiseesoft_iphone_4s_transfer_for_mac is a video game system	1111	06-jul-2018	97.0
friendly_pets is an animal	1111	06-jul-2018	90.5
fundraising_planning is a physical action	1111	06-jul-2018	91.4

canadian_rocky is a mountain in the state or province alberta	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
the sports leage nascar uses the venue nashville	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
insects feeds on hornets	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
eastman_kodak_company is a company that has an office in the city rochester	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
scuba is a sport taught in the country french_polynesia	1114	25-aug-2018	98.4

Read the Web
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NELL: Never-Ending Language Learning

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