29 July 2019
Elsevier has signed an agreement to acquire Parity Computing, a California-based business that employs artificial intelligence to provide entity resolution, profiling and recommendations for STM content and applications in the world of research.
Parity provides disambiguation technology for Elsevier’s abstract and indexing databases. Resolving ambiguities in entities and relationships that appear in publications – such as author and institution names, and citations and attributions for articles, grants, and patents – lays the foundation for the analytics and decision support capabilities of Scopus.
Parity and Elsevier will work together to build on Parity’s existing capabilities, deepen their integration and extend them more broadly across Elsevier’s research platform. Parity is headquartered in San Diego, California, with offices in Bengaluru and New Delhi, India.