Summary: Given abstracts of materials science papers they were able to predict that certain materials would have desirable/interesting properties before these m

Summary: Given abstracts of materials science papers they were able to predict that certain materials would have desirable/interesting properties before these materials were actually examined for those properties. This was confirmed by "holding out" recent years of data and then seeing if predictions from say 2009 would have held up today. They also have made predictions which have yet to be confirmed / refuted. Interesting points on future work: - This was only using abstracts. Using full papers could yield significant improvements. - Uses word2vec and not Bert / Elmo, so there's likely to be another jump in performance there.