Program "understands" scientific papers

I'd like to see it in action...kinda curious

A framework for translating the write-ups of experiments into a format that can be processed by computers has been developed by academics.

The new tool could revolutionise the way scientific papers are written and help scientists make creative leaps, researchers say.

Computers already help scientists by performing complex calculations and making information easier to analyse. But they are less suited to analysing and comparing experimental results.

"Computers are not very good with natural language, they need to have things as formalised as possible," says Ross King, a researcher at Aberystwyth University in Wales, who developed the framework with colleague Larisa Soldatova.

Called EXPO, it can be used to translate scientific experiments into a format that can be interpreted by a computer. The researchers have published the software code online so that anyone can use and modify it.