Elsevier, a global information analytics business specialising in science and health, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Parity Computing Inc. ("Parity"), a California-based business that employs artificial intelligence to provide high-accuracy entity resolution, profiling and recommendations for STM content and applications in the world of research.
Parity provides disambiguation technology for Elsevier’s abstract and indexing databases that help researchers, universities, national bodies and other stakeholders improve decision-making and answer critical questions. Resolving ambiguities in entities and relationships that appear in publications – such as author and institution names, and citations and attributions for articles, grants, and patents – lays the foundation for the analytics and decision support capabilities of Scopus.
Parity and Elsevier will work together to build on Parity’s existing capabilities, deepen their integration and extend them more broadly across Elsevier’s research platform.
Parity employs a core team of computer science PhDs with extensive experience in machine learning, natural language processing and semantic technologies. They will join Elsevier’s research product team, which supports Scopus, SciVal, Aries, Pure, SSRN, bepress and Science-Metrix.
Parity is headquartered in San Diego, California, with offices in Bengaluru and New Delhi, India.
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