US intelligence programme analyses language in patents and papers to identify next big technologies.
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21 May 2014
This article originally implied that SRI International is based in Arlington, Virginia. Although it has an office there, it is based in Menlo Park, California. It also originally said that IARPA was a partner in SciCast — in fact it is finding the project. The text has been corrected to reflect this.
28 May 2014
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/509546b
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Reardon, S. Text-mining offers clues to success. Nature 509, 410 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/509410a
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