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AI2 NEWSLETTER |
DECEMBER 2020
In this
edition: Highlighted
initiatives and
award-winning
research from
AI2 in 2020! We
had a banner
year despite the
difficult
challenges we've
all faced, and
we would like to
share some of
our most notable
accomplishments
with you in this
special issue.
AI for the Common
Good
Leaders in
Green AI
AI2's important
efforts around
Green AI were
covered in
The New
York Times
last year
and in the
December
issue of
CACM
this year. Our
mission is to
highlight the
true costs of
training
enormous models,
and to encourage
the community to
focus on
efficiency and
accessibility in
model
development
instead of
chasing
ever-smaller
margins of
performance with
no meaningful
research insight
gained.
Semantic
Scholar
turns 5!
Launched in
2015, Semantic
Scholar
is AI2's free,
AI-powered tool
for navigating
the scientific
literature.
Today we have
millions of
users searching
over 194 million
papers from all
fields of
science. The
Semantic Scholar
research team
has published
over 50
papers
at leading
conferences,
pushing the
boundaries of
NLP.
Leveraging
AI to fight
COVID-19
At the White
House’s request,
Semantic Scholar
released the
COVID-19
Open
Research
Dataset
(CORD-19), a free
resource of
scholarly
articles
relevant to
COVID-19. This
resource now
contains over
370,000 papers
and has been
viewed over 3
million times.
CORD-19 is the
basis of many
new tools and
insights
including
SciSight
and
Spike-CORD.
Research Recognition
Fellowships awarded to AI2
researchers
Three research leaders at AI2
were awarded fellowships in 2020
in recognition of their
important contributions to the
field. Left to right:
AI2 has become a
publishing
powerhouse
across multiple
areas of AI,
with
over 450
papers
affiliated with
our institute
(and over 50 at
this year's
EMNLP
alone!) – our
researcher
scientists
regularly
publish papers
in top venues
and enjoy
productive
collaborations
with notable
universities. We
celebrate and
encourage this
important
connection with
academia,
recognizing the
importance of
nonprofit,
foundational
motivations for
our AI research.
Award-winning research
AI2 received special recognition
for several of our publications
in 2020:
