It’s hard to extract knowledge from academic publications

From somebody who spent a great deal of effort trying to build an automated way to mine information from academic papers and concluded it was a waste of time:

Close to nothing of what makes science actually work is published as text on the web

Markus Strasser (tweet)“The Business of Extracting Knowledge from Academic Publications” (offline)

see comments on HN

and discussion on OpenHumans Journal Club

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Josh Nicholson, co-founder and CEO of scite explains in How to Build a GPT-3 for Science some of the barriers and how people are trying to get around them.