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Description:
Elicit is an OpenAI GPT-3 powered AI (Artificial Intelligence) research assistant that automates parts of researchers’ workflows by showing relevant papers and summaries of key information.
Label:
- Categories: Literature, AI Search Engine, Summarize Articles.
- Cost: Free
- Website: https://elicit.org/
- Languages: English, French.
- Natural language processing: Yes
Features :
- A list of papers will be listed as an answer to your research question. You can also run Elicit on your own paper by uploading it in a PDF format.
- Elicit will provide you with a summary of top papers. P.S. this is a Beta version (i.e., it is not always accurate).
- You can provide keywords and ask Elicit to search for articles in which its abstracts contain, or do not contain, these keywords.
- You can choose to
- Sort papers by: Year of publication, Number of Citations, Paper title (alphabetically), Abstract Summary (alphabetically)
- The study type: Review, Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, Longitudinal, Randomized Controlled trial
- Only show papers that are available with a PDF.
- Add one or more of the following information about all papers: Abstract summary, intervention, outcomes measures and number of participants.
- You can ask questions about the paper.
- You can export the result in a CSV file.
Pros & Cons :
- Elicit can be used to answer research questions and help you with brainstorming, summarization, and text classification.
- Elicit works better for some questions and domains than others, especially with empirical research.
- Elicit does not yet know how to evaluate whether one paper is more trustworthy than another (except by giving you some pointers, like citation count, journal, etc.)
Remarks :
- Always read original articles and make notes; this tool is meant to speed up academic work but not replace it.
