Kevin McLaughlin
Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder
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Lum contributes to the Knowledge Integration effort of the Healthy Birth, Growth, and Development (HBGD) program
The Healthy Birth, Growth, and Development (HBGD) program was launched in 2013 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The HBGD Knowledge Integration (HBGDki) initiative aims to aggregate resources to facilitate collaboration between researchers, quantitative experts, and policy makers in fields related to HBGD.
Lum contributed its Influence Search to the HBGD program. Influence Search is a semantic search engine that retrieves, assembles, and interprets knowledge fragments extracted from over a hundred thousand publications relevant to children's health. The company is currently working on a knowledge integration platform that integrates Influence Search with other knowledge sources such as citation graph and funding information.
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Digging Deeper into Soil Health Research
The Soil Health Institute, The American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America and Lum are partnering on a project that uses natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) to accelerate the retrieval and use of soil health research.
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Who we are
Our machine reading technology was developed at the University of Arizona and was funded by DARPA through the Big Mechanism program. The technology includes a mix of natural language processing and machine learning, including a novel framework for the rapid development of semantic grammars for machine reading. In a 2015 DARPA evaluation, our system performed at the accuracy of human experts and at a much higher throughput. By exploring a sea of literature, our solution has uncovered novel genetic pathways for seven types of cancer.
Meet our team
We are a team of researchers with experience and expertise in developing language understanding systems for sources as diverse as social media and scientific publications. These systems incorporate both state-of-the-art approaches in artificial intelligence, as well as rule-based components that encode detailed domain knowledge. Our hybridized approach produces practical systems that are both powerful and versatile.
Mihai Surdeanu
Chief Scientist
Co-founder
About
Associate professor in the Computer Science department at University of Arizona, co-authored over 90 peer-reviewed publications and has over 15 years of experience in building systems driven by NLP and machine learning.
His experience spans both academia (Stanford University, University of Arizona) and industry (Yahoo! Research and two other NLP-centric startups).
Marco Valenzuela
Co-founder
About
Holds a PhD in Computer Science. He has previous experience with multiple startups and is an expert on machine reading technology.
Gus Hahn-Powell
Co-founder
About
Holds graduate degrees in Computational Linguistics and Information Science, and focuses on implementing linguistic theory in machine reading systems.
Dane Bell
Co-Founder