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How to Improve the Quality of AI Academic Search?

The difference in result quality before and after using these techniques is significant.

Shuyi Wang
11 min readOct 10, 2024

Confusion

You know that AI can help you retrieve information. But many users have not truly enjoyed the convenience of AI searches in practical use. In fact, they may have been misled by AI, retrieving outdated or incorrect information, or missing critical content. Consequently, they adamantly resist using AI tools for serious tasks.

There are actually techniques to AI-assisted searching. If you understand them, you can be significantly more efficient in your searches; otherwise, it may lead to unnecessary confusion.

In academic writing, information retrieval is particularly important. The quality of the information retrieved can significantly impact the quality of your work. In today’s article, we will focus on academic information retrieval and discuss how to operate to obtain better search results.

Tools

Let’s take Perplexity as an example to illustrate the differences brought about by different search methods.

You should be familiar with Perplexity, which I introduced in this article. In brief, it is an AI-based search and Q&A engine launched in…

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Shuyi Wang
Shuyi Wang

Written by Shuyi Wang

PhD in Information Science. Associate Professor at Tianjin Normal University. Former Adjunct Faculty at UNT. First Prize Winner of HackNTX 2018.

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