Semantic Scholar
A free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature
Semantic Scholar is a free AI-powered academic search engine developed by the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) that indexes over 200 million scientific papers. It uses AI and natural language processing to extract meaning, identify connections between papers, and surface relevant research to scholars. The platform also offers open datasets, APIs, and an augmented reading experience to support the global research community.
Semantic Scholar uses AI and NLP models to process and classify academic papers, extract meaning, and identify connections to help users discover and understand research at scale.
Researchers, academics, and developers working with scientific literature
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- free
- Company
- Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
- Launched
- 2015
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