Research Tools: Semantic Scholar’s New “TLDR” (Beta) Feature Uses NLP to Place “Single-Sentence, Automatically-Generated Paper Summaries” on Search Results Pages

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From the TLDR Information Page:

The new TLDR feature in Semantic Scholar puts single-sentence, automatically-generated paper summaries right on the search results page, allowing you to quickly locate the right papers and spend your time reading what matters to you.

TLDRs (Too Long; Didn’t Read) are super-short summaries of the main objective and results of a scientific paper generated using expert background knowledge and the latest GPT-3 style NLP techniques. This new feature is available in beta for nearly 10 million papers and counting in the computer science domain in Semantic Scholar.

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TLDRs help users make quick informed decisions about which papers are relevant, and where to invest the time in further reading. TLDRs also provide ready-made paper summaries for explaining the work in various contexts, such as sharing a paper on social media.

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