A new computer system is better than scientists at the
complex task of extracting data from scientific publications and placing it in
a database that catalogues the results of thousands of individual studies.
"We demonstrated that the system was no worse than
people on all the things we measured, and it was better in some
categories," said Christopher Re, who guided the software development for
the project while at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The development marks a milestone in the quest to rapidly
and precisely summarise, collate and index the vast output of scientists around
the globe, said first author Shanan Peters, a professor of geoscience at
UW-Madison.
Peters and colleagues set up the faceoff between
PaleoDeepDive, their new machine reading system, and the human scientists who
had manually entered data into the Paleobiology Database.
The study was published in the journal PLoS.
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