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With Google Scholar, PubMed, and other free academic databases at their fingertips, scientists may feel they have plenty of resources to trawl through the ever-growing science literature.
But a search engine unveiled on 2 November by the non-profit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) in Seattle, Washington, is working towards providing something different for its users: an understanding of a paper's content. "We're trying to get deep into the papers and be fast and clean and usable," says Oren Etzioni, chief executive officer of AI2.
The free product, called Semantic Scholar, is currently limited to searching about 3 million open-access papers in computer science. But the AI2 team aims to broaden that to other fields within a year, Etzioni says. His team is well financed: AI2 was founded and is backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who has given the institute more than US$20 million since 2013.
Semantic Scholar offers a few innovative features, including picking out the most important keywords and phrases from the text without relying on an author or publisher to key them in.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday November 03 2015, @09:22PM
Nothing is accessible. I tried a couple queries on universal turing machines and some database stuff and its all links to pay sites.
Its basically the amazon.com search box for scientific papers.
The little graphs of number over time and the way it links authors is pretty cool.
(Score: 2) by VanderDecken on Tuesday November 03 2015, @09:57PM
Maybe a transient problem or something like a script blocker? I did a couple of CS-related searches and was able to get the full pdf for any reference I tried. (I checked for DAGs and cache coherency)
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
(Score: 3, Informative) by maxwell demon on Tuesday November 03 2015, @10:19PM
I don't even get to a search field. Well, I didn't lower the shields … which shouldn't be needed for a search engine. All it needs is an entry box and a submit button.
What I do see is an URL as follows: https://www.semanticscholar.org/js/unsupported-client.js?cb=40e02b54eb9a28e044f3cc7dc33aa2cfcf1149b4 [semanticscholar.org] — Unsupported client for a search engine?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 04 2015, @06:01AM
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/index.php [lib.rus.ec]
better search