Exploring and Verbalizing Academic Ideas by Concept Co-occurrence (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | a new framework for academic idea inspiration is being developed for academic research assistants . number of academic publications is increasing exponentially, making it difficult for an independent researcher to understand these papers thoroughly. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework based on concept co-occurrence for academic idea inspiration . they construct evolving concept graphs according to the co-existence relationship of concepts from 20 disciplines or topics . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can be used to explore connections between academic concepts and verbalize the new ideas. |
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