Elicit - Summaries of Top 4 Articles
If you have any questions or get stuck as you work through this in-class GenAI exercise, please ask the instructor for assistance. Have fun!
Elicit AI is a research assistant tool that utilizes natural language processing to help users extract insights from academic papers and data. It makes a consolidated summary of the top 4 papers on the topic (in its judgment) and gives you links to 8 other related papers. Don’t depend on the summaries being 100% accurate!
Elicit Training Data sources: Web scraping (including Open Access data) & Indexing agreements with 50 publishers.
- Let’s do a search in Elicit on the same topic this time using more natural language.
- Open Elicit, and if you want to use it you’ll need to create an account.
- Type the following into the search bar and click the search button:
How useful is informal credentialling for academic makerspace skills in student job searches? - Try searching for information about a topic that you are interested in to further explore the capabilities of Elicit. Be curious and have some fun!
- In Elicit, try doing a natural language search for a topic you know a lot about so that you can evaluate the quality of the results.
- For example:
Is informal credentialing helpful for academic makerspaces users in finding jobs? - Now try the same search in Google Scholar and compare the Elicit results with Google Scholar.
- For example:
- Reflection time:
- How useful do the articles look for your search?
- Compared to the Google Scholar results how high is the quality of the articles Elicit found?
- Does the combined 4 article summary look reasonable?
- How can you verify the accuracy of the summary?
- Does this look like a tool that could help you with your research?