Tangentially related: is anyone here familiar with automated analysis of research papers? I feel this is a field that would perfectly lend itself to machine learning, or similar approaches.<p>It would require extraction of meaningful data, be therein lies the rub. There are several large projects looking into collecting&#x2F;sharing scientific data, mainly focusing on persuading and empowering researchers to share their full data sets.<p>But what can we do where the raw data is not available? Is anyone working on ways to reliably extract data from the millions of PDFs in research databases?<p>There are several open-ended questions here. If anyone knows of work in these areas, or is interested in this, I&#x27;d be very keen to talk.