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SmartReviews: Towards Human- and Machine-Actionable Reviews

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Review articles summarize state-of-the-art work and provide a means to organize the growing number of scholarly publications. However, the current review method and publication mechanisms hinder the impact review articles can potentially have. Among other limitations, reviews only provide a snapshot of the current literature and are generally not readable by machines. In this work, we identify the weaknesses of the current review method. Afterwards, we present the SmartReview approach addressing those weaknesses. The approach pushes towards semantic community-maintained review articles. At the core of our approach, knowledge graphs are employed to make articles more machine-actionable and maintainable.

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This work was co-funded by the European Research Council for the project ScienceGRAPH (Grant agreement ID: 819536) and the TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology.

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Oelen, A., Stocker, M., Auer, S. (2021). SmartReviews: Towards Human- and Machine-Actionable Reviews. In: Berget, G., Hall, M.M., Brenn, D., Kumpulainen, S. (eds) Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. TPDL 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12866. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86324-1_22

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