Nature, 11/11/2016
New AI-based search engines are emerging to compete with Google Scholar’s keyword-based search algorithms. Both Semantic Scholar and Microsoft Academic leverage algorithms that can determine how influential or relevant a paper is. Techniques like this differentiate the search engines from Google Scholar, which uses a keyword search that simply checks every text for instances of the searched word or phrase and its synonyms.
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