Summarise a research paper

What the paper set out to do, what it did and what it reports, in a few paragraphs. Enough to decide whether this is one of the four you are actually going to read.

• Reports what the paper says rather than assessing it.
• The model runs in your browser; the PDF is never uploaded.
• Reads a scanned or photographed copy before summarising.

A triage tool, not a substitute for reading

The honest use of this is triage. Twenty papers came back from a search and four of them are relevant, and finding out which four currently means reading twenty abstracts written to be persuasive. A summary of the whole document says more about what is actually in it than an abstract does.

It does not assess. No claim about whether the method is sound, whether the sample supports the conclusion or whether the effect is large. Those are the judgements a reader is for, and a summary that made them would be confidently wrong about papers it had read a quarter of.

It does no arithmetic either. Figures are reported as the paper wrote them and never recomputed, compared or converted, because a number produced by a summariser looks exactly like one taken off the page.

Long papers are read all the way through

A long document is read in windows and every window is kept. The alternative, taking the first usable summary and stopping, would summarise the introduction and the conclusion and silently skip the method and the results, which is most of what distinguishes one paper from another.

Where a line in the document is written to steer the model, it is flagged above the summary and written into the head of the saved file. That is not hypothetical for papers specifically: a PDF assembled from many sources is exactly the shape the problem takes, and a saved summary that has been forwarded otherwise carries no sign of it at all.

The model itself runs in your browser and the paper is never uploaded, which also means there is no daily cap on how many you can put through it.

Can I summarise several papers at once?

Add them all and each is summarised in turn. To ask a question across them, use the reading-list page instead.

Is the paper uploaded?

No. The model runs inside this browser tab, so the PDF never crosses the network.

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