Semantic Scholar
Type of site | Search engine |
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Created by | Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence |
URL | semanticscholar |
Launched | November 2015 |
Semantic Scholar is an artificial-intelligence backed search engine for academic publications developed at the Allen Institute for AI and publicly released in November 2015.[1] It uses advances in natural language processing to provide summaries for scholarly papers.[2]
Technology[edit]
Semantic Scholar provides one-sentence summary of scientific literature. One of its aims was to address the challenge of reading numerous titles and lengthy abstracts on mobile devices.[3] It also seeks to ensure that the three million scientific papers published yearly reach readers since it is estimated that only half of this literature are ever read.[4]
Artificial intelligence is used to capture the essence of a paper, generating it through an "abstractive" technique.[2] The project uses a combination of machine learning, natural language processing, and machine vision to add a layer of semantic analysis to the traditional methods of citation analysis, and to extract relevant figures, tables, entities, and venues from papers.[5][6]
In contrast with Google Scholar and PubMed, Semantic Scholar is designed to highlight the most important and influential paper.[7] The AI technology is designed to identify hidden connections and links between research topics.[8] Like the previously cited search engines, Semantic Scholar also exploits graph structures, which include the Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph, Springer Nature's SciGraph, and the Semantic Scholar Corpus.[9]
Each paper hosted by Semantic Scholar is assigned a unique identifier called the Semantic Scholar Corpus ID (abbreviated S2CID). The following entry is an example:
- Liu, Ying; Gayle, Albert A; Wilder-Smith, Annelies; Rocklöv, Joacim (March 2020). "The reproductive number of COVID-19 is higher compared to SARS coronavirus". Journal of Travel Medicine. 27 (2). doi:10.1093/jtm/taaa021. PMC 7074654. PMID 32052846. S2CID 211099356.
As of January 2018, following a 2017 project that added biomedical papers and topic summaries, the Semantic Scholar corpus included more than 40 million papers from computer science and biomedicine.[10] In March 2018, Doug Raymond, who developed machine learning initiatives for the Amazon Alexa platform, was hired to lead the Semantic Scholar project.[11] As of August 2019, the number of included papers had grown to more than 173 million[12] after the addition of the Microsoft Academic Graph records.[13]
In 2020, users of Semantic Scholar reached seven million a month.[3]
See also[edit]
- Citation analysis
- Citation index
- Knowledge extraction
- List of academic databases and search engines
- Scientometrics
References[edit]
- ^ Eunjung Cha, Ariana (3 November 2015). "Paul Allen's AI research group unveils program that aims to shake up how we search scientific knowledge. Give it a try". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 6 November 2019. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
- ^ a b Hao, Karen (November 18, 2020). "An AI helps you summarize the latest in AI". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
- ^ a b Grad, Peter (November 24, 2020). "AI tool summarizes lengthy papers in a sentence". Tech Xplore. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
- ^ "Allen Institute's Semantic Scholar now searches across 175 million academic papers". VentureBeat. 2019-10-23. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
- ^ Bohannon, John (11 November 2016). "A computer program just ranked the most influential brain scientists of the modern era". Science. doi:10.1126/science.aal0371. Archived from the original on 29 April 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ^ Christopher Clark; Santosh Divvala (2016). PDFFigures 2.0: Mining figures from research papers. Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. ISBN 978-1-4503-4229-2. Wikidata Q108172042.
- ^ "Semantic Scholar". International Journal of Language and Literary Studies. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
- ^ Baykoucheva, Svetla (2021). Driving Science Information Discovery in the Digital Age. Chandos Publishing. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-12-823724-3.
- ^ Jose, Joemon M.; Yilmaz, Emine; Magalhães, João; Castells, Pablo; Ferro, Nicola; Silva, Mário J.; Martins, Flávio (2020). Advances in Information Retrieval: 42nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2020, Lisbon, Portugal, April 14–17, 2020, Proceedings, Part I. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. p. 254. ISBN 978-3-030-45438-8.
- ^ "AI2 scales up Semantic Scholar search engine to encompass biomedical research". GeekWire. 2017-10-17. Archived from the original on 2018-01-19. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- ^ "Tech Moves: Allen Instititue Hires Amazon Alexa Machine Learning Leader; Microsoft Chairman Takes on New Investor Role; and More". GeekWire. 2018-05-02. Archived from the original on 2018-05-10. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
- ^ "Semantic Scholat". Semantic Scholar. Archived from the original on 11 August 2019. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
- ^ "AI2 joins forces with Microsoft Research to upgrade search tools for scientific studies". GeekWire. 2018-12-05. Archived from the original on 2019-08-25. Retrieved 2019-08-25.
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