New tools aim to automate the hunt for the latest research

Automation is reaching into a vast range of professions, and my own is certainly no different. Through this blog and various other means, I try to locate interesting research and practices from around the world, and bring them together into some kind of narrative. With so much going on around the world, it stands to reason that a computer could be trained to do a similar task, and that's certainly the aim of Semantic Scholar, a new tool launched by The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. The tool offers users a means of hunting for papers in specific fields, and then filter your search by date, publication and so on. The developers believe that Semantic Scholar stands above the likes of Google Scholar due to the smarter way in which it hunts down relevant papers.