Our Paper "From Chat to Publication Management: Organizing your related work using BibSonomy & LLMs" got accepted at CHIIR (ACM SIGIR)

We are happy to announce that our paper "From Chat to Publication Management: Organizing your related work using BibSonomy & LLMs" got accepted at the CHIIR (ACM SIGIR) conference! In this publication we build and evaluate a custom ChatGPT plugin which enables researches to manage their library of publications and references. Oh, and it is already publically available! Come and check it out, there is even a demo video available: https://bibsonomy-chatgpt-api.professor-x.de/

Abstract (not yet published):

The constantly expanding scientific landscape makes it a significant challenge for researchers to efficiently find, manage and keep track of relevant literature. To this end, various platforms, such as Semantic Scholar, BibSonomy, or Zotero offer a range of tools to search, categorize, and index these publications. Unfortunately, manual and consistent addition of metadata and tags can be error-prone and time-consuming.
Fortunately, recent advances in chat-based large language models offer a promising opportunity to support and streamline this publication management process. In this context, we introduce a retrieval augmented generation system tailored for scientific research and publication management. This system is designed to enable the user to seamlessly interact with various backends, via an intuitive chat interface. Thus, it provides a simple, cohesive, and intuitive interface, enabling the user to interact with different platforms using natural language. Currently, three backends are supported: SemanticScholar, BibSonomy, and the Zotero Webscraper.
Two separate but closely related tasks are accomplished by our system: seeking out new or known scientific publications, and managing a personal virtual library of self-posted literature.