Open Research across Disciplines

How the principles of open research can be applied to your discipline

Artificial Intelligence

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Case Studies

UKRN case study: Machine learning, computer vision, and explainable AI

University of Surrey case study: Open research principles for depression diagnosis with machine learning | University of Surrey

University of Sheffield case study: Haiping Liu on PyKale – Accessible machine learning from multiple sources for interdisciplinary research. Video

Examples of open research practices

Open Methods: “Microsoft Research [have] deployed software agents trained with natural language understanding capabilities to continuously scavenge the Web for research artifacts and, from them, extract up-to-date academic knowledge into a graph-based representation called Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) (Sinha et al., 2015). As the records are from the entire web, MAG equalizes the discoverability of research materials made accessible by the incumbent publishers as well as by individual authors self-archiving at their own websites, potentially making policy initiatives to favour “Gold” over “Green” OA (e.g., Gibbs, 2013) less critical.” (https://doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2019.00026)

Resources

General Resources

Implications of openness in AI. https://www.nickbostrom.com/papers/openness.pdf

Open Methods

Presentation on new tools and services in AI and open research. https://www.stm-assoc.org/2018_12_05_STM_Week_Innovations_Jon_White.pdf
Recommendations on how to create reproducible AI. https://www.isi.edu/~gil/papers/gundersen-etal-aimagazine18.pdf
Open data, tasks, and analysis scripts for machine learning.
- https://www.openml.org/
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.6013.pdf
Open-source software and tools. https://openai.com/

Open Data

Comprehensive list of machine learning datasets. https://lionbridge.ai/datasets/the-50-best-free-datasets-for-machine-learning/

Open Outputs

Preprint repository. https://arxiv.org/

This page is adapted and extended from: Farran, E. K., Silverstein, P., Ameen, A. A., Misheva, I., & Gilmore, C. (2020, December 15). Open Research: Examples of good practice, and resources across disciplines. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/3r8hb