A software system will never be finished; EARS is no exception to that rule. It, however, is an active research project with ongoing development and enhancements.

Below is a list of features that planned for upcoming releases. Use the comment field at the bottom of this page to request new functionality or to suggest modifications to existing features.

Features planned for future releases

• Incorporating entity and document priors
• Generating associations from the collection, i.e., extracting entities from documents
• Proximity-based variations of the models: Model 1B and Model 2B
• Output internal representations of entities, i.e., entity language models
• Building entity-entity associations
• Incorporating entity and topic similarity
• More examples, including enterprise expert search, entity search in news, and related entity finding
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