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tl;dr: this AI sums up research papers in a sentence

Search engine’s tool for summarizing studies promises easier skim-reading.
  1. Jeffrey M. Perkel
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The creators of a scientific search engine have unveiled software that automatically generates one-sentence summaries of research papers, which they say could help scientists to skim-read papers faster.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03277-2

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  1. Cachola, I., Kyle, L., Cohan, A. & Weld, D. S. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.15011 (2020).

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