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Sparrho: personalised recommendation platform for scientific content

nl 11y ago
This seems nice, but wow the whole process of setting up a channel seems like a return to 2000 technology. Enter keywords, choose sources, click some weird icon? Hmm. The Allen AI institute's Semantic Search product[1] is much better at exploring a topic. OTOH it has no way to subscribe [1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Deep%20Learning https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Deep%20Learning
- versteegen 11y ago
  I don't really see what you're complaining about. You can filter by document type (is that what you mean by source?), but it's not necessary. Comparing the results of these two sites, SemanticScholar gives me the most cited papers from the last ten years, which I already knew about, while Sparrho feeds me very recent but still highly relevant papers which I mostly hadn't seen. Therefore I find Sparrho far more useful for already familiar topics. Neither site seems to have an option to change the search timeframe.
  - nl 11y ago
    I don't really see what you're complaining about Really? When I do a search, I'm seeing a big block at the top of the UI to get me to setup a channel. It's big enough that I'm only seeing on row of search results (15" MBP). You can filter by document type (is that what you mean by source?) The bottom of this block says "Select specific article source (currently optimised for Chemistry). Comparing the results of these two sites, SemanticScholar gives me the most cited papers from the last ten years, which I already knew about, while Sparrho feeds me very recent but still highly relevant papers which I mostly hadn't seen. Therefore I find Sparrho far more useful for already familiar topics. Neither site seems to have an option to change the search timeframe. I agree that are for different things, but SemenaticScholar does have the option to change the timeframe (on the right-hand side, there is a graph with number of results per year. Slide the sliders down the bottom, eg: https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?year[]=2015&year[]=2016&q=Deep%20Learning https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?year[]=2015&year[]=20...)
    - versteegen 11y ago
      The bottom of this block says "Select specific article source (currently optimised for Chemistry). Ah, I didn't notice that, because it's cut off at "Select specific article source (currently optimised for". There are several font problems, most alarmingly some 400px high text. And there is apparently no way to select the journals, despite what it says. SemenaticScholar does have the option to change the timeframe Thanks!
java-man 11y ago
something similar I've done for http://news-ai.com http://news-ai.com

nl 11y ago

This seems nice, but wow the whole process of setting up a channel seems like a return to 2000 technology. Enter keywords, choose sources, click some weird icon? Hmm. The Allen AI institute's Semantic Search product[1] is much better at exploring a topic. OTOH it has no way to subscribe [1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Deep%20Learning https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Deep%20Learning

versteegen 11y ago
I don't really see what you're complaining about. You can filter by document type (is that what you mean by source?), but it's not necessary. Comparing the results of these two sites, SemanticScholar gives me the most cited papers from the last ten years, which I already knew about, while Sparrho feeds me very recent but still highly relevant papers which I mostly hadn't seen. Therefore I find Sparrho far more useful for already familiar topics. Neither site seems to have an option to change the search timeframe.
- nl 11y ago
  I don't really see what you're complaining about Really? When I do a search, I'm seeing a big block at the top of the UI to get me to setup a channel. It's big enough that I'm only seeing on row of search results (15" MBP). You can filter by document type (is that what you mean by source?) The bottom of this block says "Select specific article source (currently optimised for Chemistry). Comparing the results of these two sites, SemanticScholar gives me the most cited papers from the last ten years, which I already knew about, while Sparrho feeds me very recent but still highly relevant papers which I mostly hadn't seen. Therefore I find Sparrho far more useful for already familiar topics. Neither site seems to have an option to change the search timeframe. I agree that are for different things, but SemenaticScholar does have the option to change the timeframe (on the right-hand side, there is a graph with number of results per year. Slide the sliders down the bottom, eg: https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?year[]=2015&year[]=2016&q=Deep%20Learning https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?year[]=2015&year[]=20...)
  - versteegen 11y ago
    The bottom of this block says "Select specific article source (currently optimised for Chemistry). Ah, I didn't notice that, because it's cut off at "Select specific article source (currently optimised for". There are several font problems, most alarmingly some 400px high text. And there is apparently no way to select the journals, despite what it says. SemenaticScholar does have the option to change the timeframe Thanks!

java-man 11y ago

something similar I've done for http://news-ai.com http://news-ai.com