Scholarcy - The AI-Powered Article Summarizer

Overview:

      Scholarcy is an innovative online tool designed to help researchers, students, and professionals streamline their reading process by automatically summarizing research papers, reports, and book chapters. It’s a one-stop solution for anyone looking to quickly understand the key points of complex documents.

Users:

      Scholarcy is primarily used by researchers, students, librarians, and professionals who need clear, informative summaries of complex documents.

Goal:

      The mission of Scholarcy is to make the world’s knowledge more accessible to everyone. It aims to help users read smarter and understand more by converting documents into interactive summary flashcards.

Uses and Features:

1. Summarizes Documents: Scholarcy reads your research articles, reports, and book chapters in seconds and breaks them down into bite-sized sections.
2. Extracts Key Facts: It creates a summary flashcard of any article, report, or document in Word or PDF format.
3. Identifies Key Information: Scholarcy identifies key information such as study participants, data analyses, main findings, and limitations.
4. Creates Links to Open Access Versions: It creates links to open access versions of cited sources.
5. Builds Personal Summarized Research Library: Scholarcy’s browser extension for Chrome and Edge works with open-access repositories such as arXiv, biorXiv, and OSF Preprints.

How It Works:

1. Document Conversion: Scholarcy converts the document into a unified, internal format.
2. Semantic Classification: Each line/paragraph is classified according to its semantic class.
3. Key Term Identification: Scholarcy identifies key terms and knowledge statements.
4. Summary Creation: Scholarcy creates a summary of the document with references.
5. Key Term Mapping: Key terms are mapped to an external knowledge base.
6. Reference Mapping: Citation markers in the text are mapped to their entries in the bibliography.