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Introduction: Recent work suggests large language models (LLMs) can accelerate screening, but prior evaluations focus on earlier LLMs, standardized Cochrane reviews, single-model setups, and accuracy as the primary metric, leaving…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Kian Godhwani , David Benrimoh

Authoring survey or review articles still requires significant tedious manual effort, despite many advancements in research knowledge management having the potential to improve efficiency, reproducibility, and reuse. However, these…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Tim Wittenborg , Oliver Karras , Sören Auer

The introduction of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly impacted various fields, including education, for example, by enabling the creation of personalized learning materials. However, their use in Systematic Reviews (SRs)…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Vedant Khandelwal , Kaushik Roy , Valerie Lookingbill , Ritvik Garimella , Harshul Surana , Heather Heckman , Amit Sheth

Systematic literature reviews (SLRs) play an essential role in summarising, synthesising and validating scientific evidence. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in using machine learning techniques to automate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Wojciech Kusa , Oscar E. Mendoza , Matthias Samwald , Petr Knoth , Allan Hanbury

Unsupervised automatic readability assessment (ARA) methods have important practical and research applications (e.g., ensuring medical or educational materials are suitable for their target audiences). In this paper, we propose a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Riley Grossman , Yi Chen

The automation of news analysis and summarization presents a promising solution to the challenge of processing and analyzing vast amounts of information prevalent in today's information society. Large Language Models (LLMs) have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Lionel Richy Panlap Houamegni , Fatih Gedikli

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a potential solution to automate the complex processes involved in writing literature reviews, such as literature collection, organization, and summarization. However, it is yet unclear how good…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Xuemei Tang , Xufeng Duan , Zhenguang G. Cai

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in data synthesis but can be inaccurate in domain-specific tasks, which retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems address by leveraging user-provided data. However, RAGs require optimization in both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Kazi Ahmed Asif Fuad , Lizhong Chen

Systematic reviews are time-consuming endeavors. Historically speaking, knowledgeable humans have had to screen and extract data from studies before it can be analyzed. However, large language models (LLMs) hold promise to greatly…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Noah L. Schroeder , Chris Davis Jaldi , Shan Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have fundamentally transformed approaches to Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks across diverse domains. In healthcare, accurate and cost-efficient text classification is crucial, whether for clinical notes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Hajar Sakai , Sarah S. Lam

Literature reviews are an essential component of scientific research, but they remain time-intensive and challenging to write, especially due to the recent influx of research papers. This paper explores the zero-shot abilities of recent…

This paper describes a rapid feasibility study of using GPT-4, a large language model (LLM), to (semi)automate data extraction in systematic reviews. Despite the recent surge of interest in LLMs there is still a lack of understanding of how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Lena Schmidt , Kaitlyn Hair , Sergio Graziosi , Fiona Campbell , Claudia Kapp , Alireza Khanteymoori , Dawn Craig , Mark Engelbert , James Thomas

Academic literature reviews have traditionally relied on techniques such as keyword searches and accumulation of relevant back-references, using databases like Google Scholar or IEEEXplore. However, both the precision and accuracy of these…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Hongye An , Arpit Narechania , Emily Wall , Kai Xu

Systematic reviews (SR), in which experts summarize and analyze evidence across individual studies to provide insights on a specialized topic, are a cornerstone for evidence-based clinical decision-making, research, and policy. Given the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Christopher Polzak , Alejandro Lozano , Min Woo Sun , James Burgess , Yuhui Zhang , Kevin Wu , Serena Yeung-Levy

This study investigates the automation of meta-analysis in scientific documents using large language models (LLMs). Meta-analysis is a robust statistical method that synthesizes the findings of multiple studies support articles to provide a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Jawad Ibn Ahad , Rafeed Mohammad Sultan , Abraham Kaikobad , Fuad Rahman , Mohammad Ruhul Amin , Nabeel Mohammed , Shafin Rahman

Context: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to screen literature for systematic reviews (SRs), but the standard confusion-matrix metrics used to evaluate them can mislead under the imbalanced, cost-asymmetric conditions of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Lech Madeyski , Barbara Kitchenham , Martin Shepperd

Previous work has demonstrated that AI methods for analysing scientific literature benefit significantly from annotating sentences in papers according to their rhetorical roles, such as research gaps, results, limitations, extensions of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Francisco Bolaños , Angelo Salatino , Francesco Osborne , Enrico Motta

Scoping reviews, a type of literature review, require intensive human effort to screen large numbers of scholarly sources for their relevance to the review objectives. This manuscript introduces GPTscreenR, a package for the R statistical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 David Wilkins

In sequential decision-making (SDM) tasks, methods like reinforcement learning (RL) and heuristic search have made notable advances in specific cases. However, they often require extensive exploration and face challenges in generalizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xue Yan , Yan Song , Xidong Feng , Mengyue Yang , Haifeng Zhang , Haitham Bou Ammar , Jun Wang

Recent advancements in large language models have sparked interest in utilizing them to aid the peer review process of scientific publication amid the peer review crisis. However, having AI models generate full reviews in the same way as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Tianmai M. Zhang , Neil F. Abernethy