ASKE: Automating Scientific Knowledge Extraction

The Automating Scientific Knowledge Extraction (ASKE) program aims to develop technology to automate some of the manual processes of scientific knowledge discovery, curation and application. 

ASKE is part of DARPA's Artificial Intelligence Exploration (AIE) program, a key component of the agency’s broader AI investment strategy aimed at ensuring the United States maintains an advantage in this critical and rapidly accelerating technology area.

ASKE seeks to develop approaches to make it easier for scientists to build, maintain and reason over rich models of complex systems – which could include physical, biological, social, engineered or hybrid systems – by interpreting and exposing scientific knowledge and assumptions in existing model code and documentation, identifying new data and information resources automatically, extracting useful information from these sources, integrating this useful information into machine-curated expert models, and executing these models in robust ways.