Dr. Mohammad Nasir
Professor cum University Librarian, Dept. of Library & Information Science, Kalinga University, Raipur
AI in Academic Research: An Overview of Selected Tools and Applications
In the digital age, artificial intelligence (AI) has shown to be a disruptive force that affects not just industry but also academic study. This advancement in technology combined with the continuous progress of data. AI has simplified the research process and learning have by making the teaching process easier for students and scholars. Nowadays all the AI tools are providing lots of articles and others materials to students and scholars for their research. There are many articles available on the internet, which article is to choose from a big challenge. AI can be used to solve this problem. Which saves the time of research scholars and they can work better on their writing. Gathering information from various sources and paraphrasing it to gone up with original idea is an important aspect of good academic writing. AI techniques are also useful tools for writing scholarly works. Their purpose is to detect mistakes that are overlooked by other grammar checkers, like problems with subject-verb agreement, syntax, word choice, pronoun usage, spelling, and articles.
Ideally, a multitude of digital platforms exist today that make effective use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems to find papers, books, proceedings, and editorial comments in any field of research.
Top AI Tools to help your Academic Research
Google Scholar:
Google Scholar is a free web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature in a variety of publishing formats and disciplines. Google Scholar makes it easy to conduct a broad search for scholarly literature. From a single location, users may search across multiple disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court judgments from academic publishers, professional associations, online repositories, universities, and other websites. Google Scholar can help users identify relevant content from all throughout the world of scholarly research.
Consensus:
Consensus is an academic smart search
engine platform that uses AI to find insights in research paper. It synthesize
both topic level and paper level insights those are connected through actual
research papers. Consensus is provide so many functionalities like, Advance
search capabilities, Semantic Search, Personalization, Integration with
academic databases, visualization and summaries, Ethical Consideration, etc. In
order facilitate and speed up knowledge discovery and creativity, consensus
might greatly simplify the research process by providing researchers with
sophisticated search tools and perspectives.
Source: https://consensus.app/
PDFgear
Copilot:
PDFgear Copilot is an AI-powered
tool, that can work with PDFs to do a range of activities, including, convertion,
compression, summarize, and making suitable points from it. This workflow is
based on the Natural Language Processing (NLP). The user have to type
instruction in simple language to getting result from the PDFgear and the
programme will comprehend and persist the result.
Source: https://www.pdfgear.com/pdf-copilot/
SCITE
– AI
Scite is an application for
discovering and evaluating scientific articles via smart citation. Smart
Citations allow users to see how a publication has been cited by providing the
context of the citation and a classification describing whether it provides
supporting or contrasting evidence for the cited statement.