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Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 15:37:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bryan Kisiel <bkis...@cs.cmu.edu>
To: "NELL: Never-Ending Language Learner" <cmunell@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [cmunell] Contributing Towards NELL
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Hi Manjot,

We would put NELL's source code up on our web site if we thought we could 
get away with it.  The problem is that every part of it is still changing 
rapidly and there's very little documentation.  This makes it difficult to 
use, and we can't afford to spend too much of our time helping people use 
it.  Going all-out open source is more of a long term goal.

But we're certainly open to collaboration.  Often, it turns out that there 
are easier ways to get started and to test out ideas than to spend time 
figuring out the source code.  Is there something in particular you had in 
mind?  Feel free to shoot me an email if you prefer.

bkis...@cs.cmu.edu


On Mon, 5 Sep 2011, manjotpahwa wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am an undergraduate researcher and have been following the progress
> of NELL since quite some time.
>
> I wanted to ask whether NELL would ever become open source as I would
> love to contribute to it.
>
> Furthermore, currently only the knowledge of NELL is available, is any
> architectural documentation available as of yet?
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> Regards,
> Manjot Pahwa
>