Research questions are often detailed. Answering them can require looking at a topic from multiple angles. Today, we are introducing Scholar Labs, an AI powered Scholar search that is designed to help you answer detailed research questions.
It analyzes your question to identify its key topics, aspects and relationships. It then searches for all of them on Scholar, and evaluates the results to identify papers that answer the overall research question. For each paper, it provides a brief description of how the paper answers your question. And includes all the familiar Scholar features that you depend upon.
You can ask follow up questions to dig deeper and explore specific nuances.
Scholar Labs is available for logged in users and currently supports questions in English. Click here to get started. You can view example research questions and ask your own.
Scholar Labs is an experimental feature and is as yet available to a limited number of users. This is a new direction for us and we plan to use the experience and feedback to improve the service. If Scholar Labs is not yet available for you, you can register to be notified when it is.
Posted by: Sam Yuan, Alex Verstak, Hanshen Wang, Akash Sethi, Namit Shetty, Anurag Acharya
Scholar PDF Reader helps you read through your ever growing pile of papers quickly and thoroughly. Starting today, it also lets you mark key passages or jot down thoughts and questions as you read.
Select the text you want to emphasize, and a popup will appear, allowing you to choose a highlight color or add a comment.
Highlights and comments are saved automatically to your personal Google Scholar Library. The cloud icon confirms your notes are saved online. Access them from any device when logged into your Google account.
Click the highlight icon in the toolbar to view all your highlights and comments in the PDF.
You can also view all your highlights and comments in your Scholar Library.
If you don’t yet have the Reader, you can install it from its Chrome web store page. In addition to highlights, Scholar PDF Reader has many other features to help with your paper reading – AI Outline for quick overview, one-click preview of cited articles, linked figure and table mentions, citing and related articles, and light/dark modes.
Happy reading!
Posted by: Danni Chen, Hanshen Wang, Alex Verstak
