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Doug Downey

Publications 2

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ExperienceIndex: Artifact-Grounded Memory

Knowledge-intensive tasks require answering many questions by reasoning about a shared corpus of artifacts (e.g., court cases, or scientific literature). As humans interact with these corpora, they naturally accumulate experiential knowledge about artifacts, enabling them to quickly identify the complete set of relevan …

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Asterism: Exploring and Synthesizing Scattered Observations into Literature-Grounded Hypotheses and Theories

A theory draws many independent observations into one framework with novel hypotheses. A researcher building such a theory must synthesize observations scattered across many papers, each describing related concepts but often in different terms. Which concepts matter most also depends on their preferences and research q …

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