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Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence system that can more effectively extract data from the vast wealth of information present on the internet. The data necessary to answer myriad questions - about, say, the correlations between the industrial use of certain chemicals and incidents of disease, or between patterns of news coverage and voter-poll results - may all be online in form of plain text. However, extracting data from plain text and organising it for quantitative analysis may be prohibitively time consuming. Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US developed a new approach to information extraction. Most machine-learning systems work by combing through training examples and looking for patterns that correspond to classifications provided by human annotators.