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John Winn

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Figure 2: A flowchart depicting unstructured text being processed though a query engine, a probabilistic parser, and probabilistic clustering to produce a unified knowledge base

In the news | VentureBeat

In 2014, Microsoft launched Project Alexandria, a research effort within its Cambridge research division dedicated to discovering entities — topics of information — and their associated properties. Building on the research lab’s work in knowledge mining research using probabilistic programming,…

Figure 2: A flowchart depicting unstructured text being processed though a query engine, a probabilistic parser, and probabilistic clustering to produce a unified knowledge base
Microsoft Research Blog

| Sanil Rajput , John Winn, Naomi Moneypenny, Yordan Zaykov, and CJ Tan

Project Alexandria is a research project within Microsoft Research Cambridge dedicated to discovering entities, or topics of information, and their associated properties from unstructured documents. This research lab has studied knowledge mining research for over a decade, using the probabilistic…