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"follow the best institutions and ~50 top individuals" wasn't meant as a suggestion actually, just an observation of what most people do.

You're right they "could work if designed to solve a specific real world problem" but against what baseline? The baseline could be spending that time on actual deep tech projects and not NLP meta-science

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markusstrasser|4 years ago

But you're right; open source projects for extracting infos (like PubTator) are valuable but ontologies/KGs need ongoing expert (ML, AI, SWEs, information architects, labelers) work (unlike most of Wikipedia or GH) so it's tough to make something that doesn't suck in a distributed open source fashion