University of Arizona has spun out Lum.AI to commercialise an automated system for extracting relevant information from research papers and journals.

Tech Launch Arizona, the tech transfer arm of University of Arizona, spun out US-based artificial intelligence technology developer Lum.AI last week.

Lum.AI is exploiting research by Mihai Surdeanu, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Science, Gustave Hahn-Powell in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Marco Antonio Valenzuela-Escárcega.

The spinout has developed software to automatically extract relevant information from research papers and journals by analysing linguistic correlations and dependencies.

The approach is expected…