探花直播 of Cambridge - Anna Korhonen /taxonomy/people/anna-korhonen en Opinion: Humans should be at the heart of AI /stories/anna-korhonen-ai-and-humans <div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p>With the right development and application, AI could become a transformative force for good. What's missing in current technologies is human insight, says Anna Korhonen.</p> </p></div></div></div> Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:48:27 +0000 lw355 248829 at Cambridge launches Institute for Technology and Humanity /stories/institute-technology-humanity-launch <div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p>A major interdisciplinary initiative has been launched that aims to meet the challenges and opportunities of new technologies as they emerge, today and far into the future.</p> </p></div></div></div> Tue, 21 Nov 2023 09:13:02 +0000 fpjl2 243351 at Cambridge and Google partner to facilitate AI research /news/cambridge-and-google-partner-to-facilitate-ai-research <div class="field field-name-field-news-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="cam-scale-with-grid" src="/sites/default/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/news/chia.jpg?itok=KxVv2SRd" alt="Research underway in the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence" title="Research underway in the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence, Credit: Cambridge FilmWorks" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> 探花直播new multi-year research agreement creates the potential for researchers and scientists from Google and the 探花直播 to more closely collaborate on foundational AI research projects in areas of shared interest across a range of disciplines, including climate and sustainability, and AI ethics and safety.聽</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Google has also become the first funding partner for the university鈥檚 <a href="https://www.chia.cam.ac.uk/">Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA)</a>, led by Professor Anna Korhonen, Professor聽Per Ola Kristensson and Dr. John Suckling, bringing together researchers and experts from computer science, engineering and multiple disciplines to develop AI that is grounded in human values and benefits humanity. Google鈥檚 unrestricted grant is helping enable the Centre鈥檚 AI research in areas like responsible AI, human-centred robotics, human-machine interaction, healthcare, economic sustainability and climate change. 探花直播donation is also funding students from underrepresented groups to carry out PhDs within the CHIA to help broaden diversity in the AI research community.聽</p>&#13; &#13; <p> 探花直播expanded partnership builds on years of collaboration between Google Research, Google DeepMind and the 探花直播 of Cambridge. Google <a href="http://research.google/programs-and-events/">provides funding for academic research</a>, facilitates collaboration between faculty and Google researchers, and supports exceptional computer science students through its <a href="http://research.google/programs-and-events/phd-fellowship/">PhD Fellowship Programme</a>. Google DeepMind <a href="https://www.student-funding.cam.ac.uk/fund/deepmind-scholarship-2022">funds scholarships for students from underrepresented backgrounds studying AI-related fields</a>, as well as a <a href="https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-peter-ochieng-appointed-first-deepmind-academic-fellow-computer-science-cambridge">postdoctoral Fellowship</a>, to help build a stronger and more inclusive AI community. Google DeepMind also <a href="/research/news/cambridge-appoints-first-deepmind-professor-of-machine-learning">endowed the first DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning</a> at the 探花直播 of Cambridge鈥檚 Department of Computer Science and Technology to help drive its machine learning and artificial intelligence research.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Matt Brittin, President of Google EMEA and 探花直播 of Cambridge alumnus, commented: 鈥淎I has huge potential to benefit people across the world - whether it鈥檚 through making daily life that bit easier, or by tackling some of society鈥檚 biggest challenges. It鈥檚 vital that we work together to seize this opportunity. By collaborating with one of our world-leading British academic institutions, we can enable AI research that is bold, responsible and designed to meet the needs of people across the country. This partnership also reaffirms Google鈥檚 commitment to the UK as a global AI and technology leader.鈥</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Jessica Montgomery, Director of <a href="https://ai.cam.ac.uk/">ai@cam</a>, the 探花直播 of Cambridge鈥檚 flagship mission on artificial intelligence, commented: 鈥 探花直播 探花直播 of Cambridge can be an engine for AI innovation and a steward of advancements in this exciting field. Translating advances in AI to benefits for science, citizens, and society requires interdisciplinary research that is deeply connected to real-word needs. 探花直播research collaboration agreement announced today will support research activities across the 探花直播. We want to leverage the world-leading expertise found across the 探花直播 to enable exciting new advances in responsible AI.鈥</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Michelle Donelan, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, added: "Artificial intelligence can offer us enormous opportunities - growing the economy, creating new jobs and making lives longer, healthier and happier for British people. To seize those opportunities, we must bring together insights from business and academia to encourage the safe and responsible development of AI. That is why we are welcoming the partnership which Google and the 探花直播 of Cambridge have announced today.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>As we prepare for next month's AI Safety Summit, this partnership shows that the UK - home to world-leading research facilities as well as some of the biggest tech companies in the world - is perfectly placed to support the innovation that underpins this critical technology."</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Professor Anna Korhonen, Director of CHIA, said: 鈥淗ere at the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence our researchers are dedicated to making sure that people are put at the very heart of new developments in AI. As our first funding partner, Google has been with us from the start of our journey, helping enable the breakthrough interdisciplinary research that we do. Partnerships like this 鈥 between academia and industry 鈥 will continue to be vital for the successful development of human-inspired AI.鈥</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Zoubin Ghahramani, VP, Research, Google DeepMind is a Professor of Information Engineering at the 探花直播 of Cambridge and has spearheaded this expanded partnership. He commented: 鈥淕oogle and the 探花直播 of Cambridge share a deep commitment to developing AI responsibly, which means grounding innovation in scientific research, 聽human values and our AI principles. We鈥檙e excited by CHIA鈥檚 potential to set new standards in responsible and human-centric AI development, 聽and unlock AI discoveries that could benefit everyone.鈥</p>&#13; &#13; <p><a href="https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/unlocking-the-ai-powered-opportunity-in-the-uk/">A recent report, commissioned by Google and compiled by Public First</a>, quantified the opportunity AI presents to enhance the lives and businesses of everyone across the UK. It found AI-powered innovation could create over 拢400 billion in economic value for the UK economy by 2030. To ensure everyone can tap into that potential, regardless of whether they鈥檙e in higher education, Google has launched free training to offer people and businesses practical skills and knowledge to capture the benefits of AI.聽<br />&#13; 聽</p>&#13; </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p> 探花直播 探花直播 of Cambridge and Google are building on their long-standing partnership with a multi-year research collaboration agreement and a Google grant for the 探花直播鈥檚 new Centre for Human-Inspired AI to support progress in responsible AI that is inspired by and benefits people.聽</p>&#13; </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-credit field-type-link-field field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.cambridgefilmworks.com/" target="_blank">Cambridge FilmWorks</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-desctiprion field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Research underway in the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-panel-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">How AI can help people with motor disabilities 鈥 like my cousin</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-panel-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><img alt="" src="/sites/www.cam.ac.uk/files/inner-images/phd_student_aleesha_hamid_park_jacqueline_garget_resized.jpg" style="height: 137px; width: 150px; float: left; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; margin-right: 10px; margin-left: 10px;" /><em>鈥淢y cousin was the victim of a brutal attack, and left with life-changing injuries 鈥 but with AI technology, we aim to empower people like her.鈥</em></p>&#13; &#13; <p style="padding-bottom: 50px;">Aleesha Hamid, a PhD student at the Cambridge Centre for Human-Inspired AI, <a href="https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/united-kingdom/ai-motor-disabilities/">blogs on the Google website</a> about why her research aims to make a real difference to people like her cousin, who was left with a traumatic brain injury and uses technology to communicate. 聽</p>&#13; </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cc-attribute-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license"><img alt="Creative Commons License." src="/sites/www.cam.ac.uk/files/inner-images/cc-by-nc-sa-4-license.png" style="border-width: 0px; width: 88px; height: 31px;" /></a><br />&#13; 探花直播text in this work is licensed under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>. Images, including our videos, are Copyright 漏 探花直播 of Cambridge and licensors/contributors as identified.聽 All rights reserved. We make our image and video content available in a number of ways 鈥 as here, on our <a href="/">main website</a> under its <a href="/about-this-site/terms-and-conditions">Terms and conditions</a>, and on a <a href="/about-this-site/connect-with-us">range of channels including social media</a> that permit your use and sharing of our content under their respective Terms.</p>&#13; </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-show-cc-text field-type-list-boolean field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Yes</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-related-links field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Related Links:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67132846">BBC News</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/google-university-of-cambridge-cambridge-matt-brittin-b2430799.html">Independent</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-12638025/Google-help-fund-new-AI-research-centre- 探花直播-Cambridge.html">Daily Mail</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/google-university-of-cambridge-michelle-donelan-cambridge-matt-brittin-b1113953.html">Evening Standard</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.lbc.co.uk/tech/d068c171842542b180572a83f09d2863/">LBC</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://www.businessweekly.co.uk/news/hi-tech/google-funding-new-cambridge-university-ai-hub-could-help-uk-grab-拢400bn-opportunity">Business Weekly</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://uk.news.yahoo.com/google-help-fund-ai-research-230100476.html">Yahoo News</a></div></div></div> Tue, 17 Oct 2023 07:54:22 +0000 hcf38 242681 at Four Cambridge researchers awarded European Research Council Advanced Grants /research/news/four-cambridge-researchers-awarded-european-research-council-advanced-grants <div class="field field-name-field-news-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="cam-scale-with-grid" src="/sites/default/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/research/news/getty-head.jpg?itok=XHmZt7Cd" alt="Head on chalkboard with light bulbs inside" title="Credit: yangwenshuang on Getty" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> 探花直播European Research Council (ERC) has announced the award of 218 Advanced Grants to outstanding research leaders across Europe, as part of the Horizon Europe programme.</p>&#13; &#13; <p> 探花直播grants, totalling 鈧544 million, support cutting-edge research in a wide range of fields from medicine and physics to social sciences and humanities.</p>&#13; &#13; <p> 探花直播ERC is the premier European funding organisation for excellent frontier research.聽 探花直播ERC Advanced Grant funding is amongst the most prestigious and competitive EU funding schemes, providing researchers with the opportunity to pursue ambitious, curiosity-driven projects that could lead to major scientific breakthroughs. Grants are awarded to established, leading researchers with a proven track record of significant research achievements over the past decade.</p>&#13; &#13; <p> 探花直播 探花直播 of Cambridge鈥檚 grant awardees are:</p>&#13; &#13; <p><strong>Anna Korhonen</strong>, Professor of Natural Language Processing in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, for her project <em>Towards Globally Equitable Language Technologies.</em></p>&#13; &#13; <p><strong>Richard Nickl</strong>, Professor of Mathematical Statistics in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, for his project <em>Statistical aspects of non-linear inverse problems.</em></p>&#13; &#13; <p><strong>Peter Sewell</strong>, Professor of Computer Science at the Computer Laboratory, for his project <em>Secure Foundations: Verified Systems Software Above Full-Scale Integrated Semantics.</em></p>&#13; &#13; <p><strong>Sujit Sivasundaram</strong>, Professor of World History at the Faculty of History, for his project <em>Colombo: Layered Histories in the Global South City.</em></p>&#13; &#13; <p>'Many many congratulations to Anna, Richard, Peter and Sujit on their success. It is fantastic to see the highly innovative work of our researchers being recognised in international competition in this way. We are once again reminded of the commitment of the ERC to cutting edge research across all disciplines and we continue to urge government to swiftly secure association to Horizon Europe,' said Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research at the 探花直播 of Cambridge.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>"This funding puts our 218 research leaders, together with their teams of postdoctoral fellows, PhD students and research staff, in pole position to push back the boundaries of our knowledge, break new ground and build foundations for future growth and prosperity in Europe,鈥 said Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>"These new ERC Advanced Grantees are a testament to the outstanding quality of research carried out across Europe. I am especially pleased to see such a high number of female researchers in this competition and that they are increasingly successful in securing funding. We look forward to seeing the results of the new projects in the years to come, with many likely to lead to breakthroughs and new advances,鈥 said Maria Leptin, ERC President.</p>&#13; &#13; <p> 探花直播laureates of this grant competition will carry out their projects at universities and research centres in 20 countries in Europe, with the highest number of projects in Germany (37), the UK (35), France (32) and Spain (16). 探花直播winners come from all over the world, with 27 nationalities represented, notably Germans (36 researchers), French (32), Italians (21), British (19).</p>&#13; &#13; <p>This call for proposals attracted nearly 1,650 applications, which were reviewed by panels of renowned researchers. 探花直播overall success rate was 13.2%. Female researchers account for 23% of all applications, their highest participation rate in Advanced Grant calls up to now.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>In addition to strengthening Europe's knowledge base, the grants are expected to create more than 2,000 jobs for postdoctoral fellows, PhD students, and other staff at the host institutions. Past recipients have included Nobel laureates and other leading scientists who have gone on to make major contributions to their respective fields..</p>&#13; &#13; <p><em>Adapted from a press release by the ERC.</em></p>&#13; </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p> 探花直播funding will enable these researchers to explore their most innovative and ambitious ideas.</p>&#13; </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-quote field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">It is fantastic to see the highly innovative work of our researchers being recognised in international competition in this way. </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-quote-name field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Anne Ferguson-Smith</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-credit field-type-link-field field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/" target="_blank">yangwenshuang on Getty</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cc-attribute-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license"><img alt="Creative Commons License." src="/sites/www.cam.ac.uk/files/inner-images/cc-by-nc-sa-4-license.png" style="border-width: 0px; width: 88px; height: 31px;" /></a><br />&#13; 探花直播text in this work is licensed under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>. Images, including our videos, are Copyright 漏 探花直播 of Cambridge and licensors/contributors as identified.聽 All rights reserved. We make our image and video content available in a number of ways 鈥 as here, on our <a href="/">main website</a> under its <a href="/about-this-site/terms-and-conditions">Terms and conditions</a>, and on a <a href="/about-this-site/connect-with-us">range of channels including social media</a> that permit your use and sharing of our content under their respective Terms.</p>&#13; </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-show-cc-text field-type-list-boolean field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Yes</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-license-type field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Licence type:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/imagecredit/attribution-noncommerical">Attribution-Noncommerical</a></div></div></div> Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:43:20 +0000 jg533 238331 at Cambridge research centre puts people at the heart of AI /research/news/cambridge-research-centre-puts-people-at-the-heart-of-ai <div class="field field-name-field-news-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="cam-scale-with-grid" src="/sites/default/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/research/news/artificial-intelligence-digital-concept-credit-olemedia-event-what-is-machine-learning-and-why-is-it.jpg?itok=zBkfvA00" alt="" title="Illustration representing artificial intelligence, Credit: Olemedia (Getty Images)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> 探花直播<a href="https://www.chia.cam.ac.uk/">Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence </a>(CHIA) brings together researchers from engineering and mathematics, philosophy and social sciences; a broad range of disciplines to investigate how human and machine intelligence can be combined in technologies that best contribute to social and global progress.</p> <p>Anna Korhonen, Director of CHIA and Professor of Natural Language Processing, said: 鈥淲e know from history that new technologies can drive changes with both positive and negative consequences, and this will likely be the case for AI. 探花直播goal of our new Centre is to put humans at the centre of every stage of AI development 鈥 basic research, application, commercialisation and policymaking 鈥 to help ensure AI benefits everyone."</p> <p>Artificial intelligence is a rapidly developing technology predicted to transform much of our society. While AI has the potential to tackle some of the world鈥檚 most pressing problems in healthcare, education, climate science and economic sustainability it will need to embrace its human origins to become responsible, transparent and inclusive.</p> <p>Per-Ola Kristensson, Co-director of CHIA and Professor of Interactive Systems Engineering, said: 鈥淔or true progress and real-life impact it鈥檚 critical to nurture a close engagement with industry, policy makers, non-governmental organisations and civil society. Few universities in the world can rival the breadth and depth of Cambridge making us ideally positioned to make these connections and engage with the communities who face the greatest impact from AI.鈥</p> <p>Designed to deliver both academic and real-world impact, CHIA seeks partners in academic, industrial, third-sector and other organizations that share an interest in promoting human-inspired AI.</p> <p>John Suckling, Co-director of CHIA and Director of Research in Psychiatric Neuroimaging, said: 鈥淥ur students will be educated in an interdisciplinary environment with access to experts in the technical, ethical, human and industrial aspects of AI. Early-career researchers will be part of all our activities. We are committed to inclusivity and diversity as a way of delivering robust and practical outcomes.鈥</p> <p>CHIA will educate the next generation of AI creators and leaders, with dedicated graduate training in human-inspired AI.</p> <p>Professor Mark Girolami from the Department of Engineering,聽said: 鈥淎s artificial intelligence becomes increasingly pervasive, it鈥檚 critical to align its development with societal interests.聽This new 探花直播-wide Centre will explore a human-centric approach to the development of AI to ensure beneficial聽outcomes for society. Cambridge's depth of expertise in AI and a focus on interdisciplinary collaboration make聽it an ideal home for CHIA.鈥</p> <p>Apart from research and education, the CHIA will also host seminars, public events and international conferences to raise awareness of human-inspired AI. Forums will be convened around topics of ethical or societal concern with representation from all stakeholders.</p> <p>Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, said: 鈥淚f we鈥檙e to ensure that AI works for everyone and does not widen inequalities, then we need to place people at its heart and consider the societal and ethical implications alongside its development. Cambridge, with its ability to draw on researchers across multiple disciplines, is uniquely positioned to be able to lead in this area.鈥</p> <p>Neil Lawrence, DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning, added: 鈥淎rtificial intelligence is provoking new questions in our societies. It鈥檚 vital that we deliver the answers in a people-centric manner. 探花直播Centre in Human-Inspired AI will provide a new interdisciplinary hub that delivers the solutions for these challenges.鈥</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p> 探花直播 探花直播 of Cambridge today launches a new research centre dedicated to exploring the possibilities of a world shared by both humans and machines with artificial intelligence (AI).</p> </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-media field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div id="file-197761" class="file file-video file-video-youtube"> <h2 class="element-invisible"><a href="/file/introducing-the-centre-for-human-inspired-artificial-intelligence">Introducing 探花直播Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence</a></h2> <div class="content"> <div class="cam-video-container media-youtube-video media-youtube-1 "> <iframe class="media-youtube-player" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/jsESFNuYuJM?wmode=opaque&controls=1&rel=0&autohide=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-credit field-type-link-field field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/" target="_blank">Olemedia (Getty Images)</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-desctiprion field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Illustration representing artificial intelligence</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cc-attribute-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="license"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" style="border-width:0" /></a><br /> 探花直播text in this work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>. Images, including our videos, are Copyright 漏 探花直播 of Cambridge and licensors/contributors as identified.聽 All rights reserved. We make our image and video content available in a number of ways 鈥 as here, on our <a href="/">main website</a> under its <a href="/about-this-site/terms-and-conditions">Terms and conditions</a>, and on a <a href="/about-this-site/connect-with-us">range of channels including social media</a> that permit your use and sharing of our content under their respective Terms.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-show-cc-text field-type-list-boolean field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Yes</div></div></div> Tue, 12 Jul 2022 07:00:51 +0000 cjb250 233251 at AI system may accelerate search for cancer discoveries /research/news/ai-system-may-accelerate-search-for-cancer-discoveries <div class="field field-name-field-news-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="cam-scale-with-grid" src="/sites/default/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/research/news/crop_98.jpg?itok=o2UdvOBH" alt="Skin cancer cells from a mouse show how cells attach at contact points" title="Skin cancer cells from a mouse show how cells attach at contact points, Credit: NIH Image Gallery" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> 探花直播system, called <a href="https://lbd.lionproject.net/">LION LBD</a> and developed by computer scientists and cancer researchers at the 探花直播 of Cambridge, has been designed to assist scientists in the search for cancer-related discoveries. It is the first literature-based discovery system aimed at supporting cancer research. 探花直播<a href="https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty845/5124276">results</a> are reported in the journal <em>Bioinformatics</em>.聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Global cancer research attracts massive amounts of funding worldwide, and the scientific literature is now so huge that researchers are struggling to keep up with it: critical hypothesis-generating evidence is now often discovered long after it was published.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Cancer is a complex class of diseases that are not completely understood and are the second-leading cause of death worldwide. Cancer development involves changes in numerous chemical and biochemical molecules, reactions and pathways, and cancer research is being conducted across a wide variety of scientific fields, which have variability in the way that they describe similar concepts.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>鈥淎s a cancer researcher, even if you knew what you were looking for, there are literally thousands of papers appearing every day,鈥 said Professor Anna Korhonen, Co-Director of Cambridge鈥檚 Language Technology Lab who led the development of LION LBD in collaboration with Dr Masashi Narita at Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and Professor Ulla Stenius at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. 鈥淟ION LBD uses AI to help scientists keep up-to-date with published discoveries in their field, but could also help them make new discoveries by combining what is already known in the literature by making connections between sources that may appear to be unrelated.鈥</p>&#13; &#13; <p> 探花直播鈥楲BD鈥 in LION LBD stands for Literature-Based Discovery, a concept developed in the 1980s which seeks to make new discoveries by combing pieces of information from disconnected sources. 探花直播key idea behind the original version of LBD is that concepts that are never explicitly linked in the literature may be indirectly linked through intermediate concepts.</p>&#13; &#13; <p> 探花直播design of the LION LBD system allows real-time search to discover indirect associations between entities in a database of tens of millions of publications while preserving the ability of users to explore each mention in its original context.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>鈥淔or example, you may know that a cancer drug affects the behaviour of a certain pathway, but with LION LBD, you may find that a drug developed for a totally different disease affects the same pathway,鈥 said Korhonen.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>LION LBD is the first system developed specifically for the needs of cancer research. It has a particular focus on the molecular biology of cancer and uses state-of-the-art machine learning and natural language processing techniques, in order to detect references to the hallmarks of cancer in the text. Evaluations of the system have demonstrated its ability to identify undiscovered links and to rank relevant concepts highly among potential connections.</p>&#13; &#13; <p> 探花直播system is built using open data, open source and open standards, and is available as an interactive web-based interface or a programmable API.</p>&#13; &#13; <p> 探花直播researchers are currently working on extending the scope of LION-LBD to include further concepts and relations. They are also working closely with cancer researchers to help and improve the technology for end users.</p>&#13; &#13; <p> 探花直播system was developed in collaboration with 探花直播 of Cambridge Language Technology Lab, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and was funded by the Medical Research Council.</p>&#13; &#13; <p><strong><em>Reference:</em></strong><br /><em>Sampo Pyysalo et al. 鈥<a href="https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty845/5124276">LION LBD: a Literature-Based Discovery System for Cancer Biology</a>.鈥 Bioinformatics (2018). DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty845</em></p>&#13; </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p>Searching through the mountains of published cancer research could be made easier for scientists, thanks to a new AI system.聽</p>&#13; </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-quote field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">As a cancer researcher, even if you knew what you were looking for, there are literally thousands of papers appearing every day</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-quote-name field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Anna Korhonen</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-credit field-type-link-field field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nihgov/26192443504/in/photolist-9osuSC-GkY3ES-24pHjEE-4QaBa-4QaC6-FUx7Vw-wyPJtV-HJpd72-H4YPGs-KKkpaU-EPwcbP-27Le5Du" target="_blank">NIH Image Gallery</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-desctiprion field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Skin cancer cells from a mouse show how cells attach at contact points</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cc-attribute-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="license"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" style="border-width:0" /></a><br />&#13; 探花直播text in this work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>. Images, including our videos, are Copyright 漏 探花直播 of Cambridge and licensors/contributors as identified.聽 All rights reserved. We make our image and video content available in a number of ways 鈥 as here, on our <a href="/">main website</a> under its <a href="/about-this-site/terms-and-conditions">Terms and conditions</a>, and on a <a href="/about-this-site/connect-with-us">range of channels including social media</a> that permit your use and sharing of our content under their respective Terms.</p>&#13; </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-show-cc-text field-type-list-boolean field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Yes</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-license-type field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Licence type:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/imagecredit/attribution-noncommerical">Attribution-Noncommerical</a></div></div></div> Tue, 27 Nov 2018 12:09:25 +0000 sc604 201522 at AI crossword-solving application could make machines better at understanding language /research/news/ai-crossword-solving-application-could-make-machines-better-at-understanding-language <div class="field field-name-field-news-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="cam-scale-with-grid" src="/sites/default/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/research/news/crossword.png?itok=zzlvqAnV" alt="Crossword" title="Crossword, Credit: Beth" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Researchers have designed a web-based platform which uses artificial neural networks to answer standard crossword clues better than existing commercial products specifically designed for the task. 探花直播system could help machines understand language more effectively.</p> <p>In tests against commercial crossword-solving software, the system, designed by researchers from the UK, US and Canada, was more accurate at answering clues that were single words (e.g. 鈥榗ulpability鈥 鈥 guilt), a short combination of words (e.g. 鈥榙evil devotee鈥 鈥 Satanist), or a longer sentence or phrase (e.g. 鈥楩rench poet and key figure in the development of Symbolism鈥 鈥 Baudelaire). 探花直播system can also be used a 鈥榬everse dictionary鈥 in which the user describes a concept and the system returns possible words to describe that concept.</p> <p> 探花直播researchers used the definitions contained in six dictionaries, plus Wikipedia, to 鈥榯rain鈥 the system so that it could understand words, phrases and sentences 鈥 using the definitions as a bridge between words and sentences. Their <a href="https://tacl2013.cs.columbia.edu/ojs/index.php/tacl/article/view/711/168">results</a>, published in the journal <em>Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics</em>, suggest that a similar approach may lead to improved output from more general language understanding and dialogue systems and information retrieval engines in general. All of the <a href="https://github.com/fh295/DefGen2">code</a>聽and data behind the application has been made freely available for future research.</p> <p>鈥淥ver the past few years, there鈥檚 been a mini-revolution in machine learning,鈥 said Felix Hill of the 探花直播 of Cambridge鈥檚 Computer Laboratory, one of the paper鈥檚 authors. 鈥淲e鈥檙e seeing a lot more usage of deep learning, which is especially useful for language perception and speech recognition.鈥</p> <p>Deep learning refers to an approach in which artificial neural networks with little or no prior 鈥榢nowledge鈥 are trained to recreate human abilities using massive amounts of data. For this particular application, the researchers used dictionaries 鈥 training the model on hundreds of thousands of definitions of English words, plus Wikipedia.</p> <p>鈥淒ictionaries contain just about enough examples to make deep learning viable, but we noticed that the models get better and better the more examples you give them,鈥 said Hill. 鈥淥ur experiments show that definitions contain a valuable signal for helping models to interpret and represent the meaning of phrases and sentences.鈥</p> <p>Working with Anna Korhonen from the Cambridge鈥檚 Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, and researchers from the Universit茅 de Montr茅al and New York 探花直播, Hill used the model as a way of bridging the gap between machines that understand the meanings of individual words and machines that can understand the meanings of phrases and sentences.</p> <p>鈥淒espite recent progress in AI, problems involving language understanding are particularly difficult, and our work suggests many possible applications of deep neural networks to language technology,鈥 said Hill. 鈥淥ne of the biggest challenges in training computers to understand language is recreating the many rich and diverse information sources available to humans when they learn to speak and read.鈥</p> <p>However, there is still a long way to go. For instance, when Hill鈥檚 system receives a query, the machine has no idea about the user鈥檚 intention or the wider context of why the question is being asked. Humans, on the other hand, can use their background knowledge and signals like body language to figure out the intent behind the query.</p> <p>Hill describes recent progress in learning-based AI systems in terms of behaviourism and cognitivism: two movements in psychology that effect how one views learning and education. Behaviourism, as the name implies, looks at behaviour without looking at what the brain and neurons are doing, while cognitivism looks at the mental processes that underlie behaviour. Deep learning systems like the one built by Hill and his colleagues reflect a cognitivist approach, but for a system to have something approaching human intelligence, it would have to have a little of both.</p> <p>鈥淥ur system can鈥檛 go too far beyond the dictionary data on which it was trained, but the ways in which it can are interesting, and make it a surprisingly robust question and answer system 鈥 and quite good at solving crossword puzzles,鈥 said Hill. While it was not built with the purpose of solving crossword puzzles, the researchers found that it actually performed better than commercially-available products that are specifically engineered for the task.</p> <p>Existing commercial crossword-answering applications function in a similar way to a Google search, with one system able to reference over 1100 dictionaries. While this approach has advantages if you want to look up a definition verbatim, it works less well when you input a question or query that the model has never seen in training. It also makes it incredibly 鈥榟eavy鈥 in terms of the amount of memory it requires. 鈥淭raditional approaches are like lugging many heavy dictionaries around with you, whereas our neural system is incredibly light,鈥 said Hill.</p> <p>According to the researchers, the results show the effectiveness of definition-based training for developing models that understand phrases and sentences. They are currently looking at ways of enhancing their system, specifically by combining it with more behaviourist-style models of language learning and linguistic interaction.</p> <p><strong><em>Reference:</em></strong><br /> <em>Hill, Felix et al. </em><a href="https://tacl2013.cs.columbia.edu/ojs/index.php/tacl/article/view/711/168"><em>Learning to Understand Phrases by Embedding the Dictionary</em></a><em>. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, [S.l.], v. 4, p. 17-30, feb. 2016. ISSN 2307-387X.聽</em></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p>A web-based machine language system solves crossword puzzles far better than commercially-available products, and may help machines better understand language.聽</p> </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-quote field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Despite recent progress in AI, problems involving language understanding are particularly difficult.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-quote-name field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Felix Hill</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-credit field-type-link-field field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/matterphotography/979090639/in/photolist-2uw6x6-5qjc6E-9cdgCV-5ab8C-akNTge-9rmE6K-93jcbv-odqCPQ-96TkjH-ixzi7S-5kPSHF-cXSnA-5teSSR-aC9qCn-58BrW9-4SfiQN-52L89V-qupgPw-4WKgvM-4uB2RF-cNzMVJ-4Vg1M-33FESE-JZX43-e8z486-53Tsy-947gKh-cp5XnG-bG7bEa-4Bawa-dk1X-cVZ1zw-nhxVUW-8Rv1xR-cp5R2u-gsrzUk-qpuoQb-4MwLtM-gGVPb-gQjL5-4Upz7Y-2WRdn8-dBRpDe-5R7K6w-77v35z-9uKCf7-fUYZRw-abognP-4BXQ6w-m2m37" target="_blank">Beth</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-desctiprion field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Crossword</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cc-attribute-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="license"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" style="border-width:0" /></a><br /> 探花直播text in this work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>. For image use please see separate credits above.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-show-cc-text field-type-list-boolean field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Yes</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-license-type field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Licence type:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/imagecredit/attribution-noncommerical">Attribution-Noncommerical</a></div></div></div> Mon, 07 Mar 2016 09:38:00 +0000 sc604 169082 at Mining the language of science /research/news/mining-the-language-of-science <div class="field field-name-field-news-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="cam-scale-with-grid" src="/sites/default/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/research/news/111114-copyright-istockphotoenot-poluskun.jpg?itok=Z9IOnV6Z" alt="Categorising textual information" title="Categorising textual information, Credit: 漏iStockphoto/Enot Poluskun" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Ask any biomedical scientist whether they manage to keep on top of reading all of the publications in their field, let alone an adjacent field, and few will say yes. New publications are appearing at a double-exponential rate, as measured by MEDLINE 鈥 the US National Library of Medicine鈥檚 biomedical bibliographic database 鈥 which now lists over 19 million records and adds up to 4,000 new records daily.</p>&#13; <p>For a prolific field such as cancer research, the number of publications could quickly become unmanageable and important hypothesis-generating evidence may be missed. But what if scientists could instruct a computer to help them?</p>&#13; <p>To be useful, a computer would need to trawl through the literature in the same way that a scientist would: reading the literature to uncover new knowledge, evaluating the quality of the information, looking for patterns and connections between facts, and then generating hypotheses to test. Not only might such a program speed up the progress of scientific discovery but, with the capacity to consider vast numbers of factors, it might even discover information that could be missed by the human brain.</p>&#13; <p> 探花直播aim of Dr Anna Korhonen and researchers in the Natural Language and Information Processing Group in the 探花直播 of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory is to develop computers that can understand written language in the same way that humans do. One of the projects she is involved in has recently developed a method of 鈥榯ext mining鈥 one of the most literature-dependent areas of biomedicine: cancer risk assessment of chemicals.</p>&#13; <p>Every year, thousands of new chemicals are developed, any one of which might pose a potential risk to human health. Complex risk assessment procedures are in place to determine the relationship between exposure and the likelihood of developing cancer, but it鈥檚 a lengthy process, as Royal Society 探花直播 Research Fellow Dr Korhonen explained: 鈥 探花直播first stage of any risk assessment is a literature review. It鈥檚 a major bottleneck. There could be tens of thousands of articles for a single chemical. Performed manually, it鈥檚 expensive and, because of the rising number of publications, it鈥檚 becoming too challenging to manage.鈥</p>&#13; <p>CRAB, the tool her team has developed in collaboration with Professor Ulla Stenius鈥 group at the Institute of Environmental Medicine at Sweden鈥檚 Karolinska Institutet, is a novel approach to cancer risk assessment that could help risk assessors move beyond manual literature review.</p>&#13; <p> 探花直播approach is based on text-mining technology, which has been pioneered by computer scientists, and involves developing programs that can analyse natural language texts, despite their complexity, inconsistency and ambiguity. 探花直播tool Dr Korhonen has developed with her colleagues is the first text-mining tool aimed at aiding literature review in chemical risk assessment.</p>&#13; <p>At the heart of CRAB, the development of which was funded by the Medical Research Council and the Swedish Research Council among others, is a taxonomy that specifies scientific evidence used in cancer risk assessment, including key events that may result in cancer formation. 探花直播system takes the textual content of each relevant MEDLINE abstract and classifies it according to the taxonomy. At the press of a button, a profile is rapidly built for any particular chemical using all of the available literature, describing highly specific patterns of connections between chemicals and toxicity.</p>&#13; <p>鈥淎lthough still under development, the system can be used to make connections that would be difficult to find, even if it had been possible to read all the documents,鈥 added Dr Korhonen. 鈥淚n a recent experiment, we studied a group of chemicals with unknown mode of action and used the CRAB tool to suggest a new hypothesis that might explain their male-specific carcinogenicity in the pancreas.鈥</p>&#13; <p> 探花直播tool will be available for end-users via an online web interface. However, research into improving text mining will continue. One of the biggest current challenges is to develop adaptive technology that can be ported easily between different text types, tasks and scientific fields.</p>&#13; <p>One day, rather than being at the mercy of the flourishing rate of publication, scientists will have at their fingertips a system to work alongside them that will not only point them towards those references that are relevant to their search, but will also tell them why.</p>&#13; </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p>Scientists are developing a computer that can read vast amounts of scientific literature, make connections between facts and develop hypotheses.</p>&#13; </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-quote field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Although still under development, the system can be used to make connections that would be difficult to find, even if it had been possible to read all the documents.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-quote-name field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Dr Anna Korhonen</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-credit field-type-link-field field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/" target="_blank">漏iStockphoto/Enot Poluskun</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-desctiprion field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Categorising textual information</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cc-attribute-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/"><img alt="" src="/sites/www.cam.ac.uk/files/80x15.png" style="width: 80px; height: 15px;" /></a></p>&#13; <p>This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Licence</a>. If you use this content on your site please link back to this page.</p>&#13; </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-show-cc-text field-type-list-boolean field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Yes</div></div></div> Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:00:55 +0000 lw355 26480 at