DeepDive – System that enables developers to analyze data on a deeper level

Re:DeepDive – System that enables developers to analyze data... by tensor on Thursday December 11, 2014 @05:52PM (#8737516)

There is actually a huge body of work on probabilistic reasoning. Just do a google scholar search for the "probabilistic reasoning" or "probabilistic inference" or "probabilistic logic." You might have to dig around in the results, but there are definitely a lot of papers on the topic.

I hadn't heard about DeepDive until now, but I did previously come across another project that does probabilistic reasoning: http://alchemy.cs.washington.edu. I cannot speak to how they compare since I haven't looked into either in great depth yet.

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Re:DeepDive – System that enables developers to analyze data... by nl on Thursday December 11, 2014 @06:00PM (#8737554)

Yes, I should clarify.

There is a lot of work on probabilistic inference. Huge volumes.

But then if you are interested on papers on using probabilistic inference on unstructured information there is a lot less information.

If you are looking for actual implementation reports there isn't much. The most interesting are the previously mentioned Probase paper, The Google Knowledge Graph paper and assorted IBM Watson stuff.

I've just realised that DeepDive is also the Wisci project[1], which is something I've been watching for a while

That Alchemy implementation requires a structured database of information, and doesn't really deal with how to get that.

[1] http://i.stanford.edu/hazy/home

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