(26 Mar 2025) From Ai2:
Today we release Ai2 Paper Finder, an LLM-powered literature search system.
We believe that AI-based literature search should follow the research and thought process that a human researcher would use when looking for relevant papers in their field. Ai2 Paper Finder is built on this philosophy, and it excels at locating papers that are hard to find using existing search tools.
Consider your own research process and how you search for papers. For example, imagine you’re looking for papers that introduce a dataset of an unscripted dialogue between 2 speakers (written or transcription) in English where there is an annotation of some property (emotion, age, gender, etc.) of one of the speakers.
How would you approach it today?
You’ll likely start by choosing a tool, either Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar, or a regular Google search, or ask an LLM like GPT. You will then come up with search terms (based on your knowledge of both the domain and the tool you chose), and see what comes up. The results will likely not perfectly match what you need, but will be a good start. From the search results, your intuition will guide you to more follow-ups: maybe you learn new vocabulary or are reminded of a related concept that leads you to a new search query, or you find a promising lead and start to follow citations or a specific author’s work. The point is that literature search is a multi-step process that involves learning and iterating as you go.
We built this thinking process right into Ai2 Paper Finder. When you enter a query, you can watch as the system breaks down your query into relevant components, searches for papers, follows citations, evaluates for relevance, runs follow-up queries based on the results, and then presents not only the papers, but also short summaries of why the paper is relevant to your specific query.
We are excited to share the first iteration of Ai2 Paper Finder with the community. This is a work in progress, and we look forward to having everyone interact with it, use it for day-to-day work, and provide feedback on the results. Please try it out, explore its boundaries, and let us know if it doesn’t work as expected! We understand that Ai2 Paper Finder is far from perfect and we will actively monitor your feedback and look for opportunities to improve.
The announcement in full is here.
