MIT Releases Science Task Taxonomy Covering 208,000 Tasks

MIT FutureTech researchers led by Neil Thompson released the paper "Scientific Work" with a Science Task Taxonomy covering 12 major categories, 2,433 fine-grained subdivisions, and about 208,000 tasks across 232 subfields, built via feature classification, clustering, and LLM annotation with Gemini.

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