The possibility of integrating AI into zotero to assist reading

dongfanghong · January 14, 2023

In the past two months, we have seen the exciting applications of GPT-3. Among them, Explainpaper(https://www.explainpaper.com/) and Scispace(http://scispace.com/) are tools to facilitate paper reading, providing quite good experience. But they cannot effectively integrate with zotero. So, I just wonder wether there is any possibility of integrating AI into zotero, e.g. through plugins or built-in functions.

emilianoeheyns · January 14, 2023

That would depend entirely on whether those tools have APIs Zotero could talk to. I don't readily see they do.

GabeTheEngineer · 2023-03-03T22:46:29+00:00

I wonder if the map_reduce chain from this project: https://langchain.readthedocs.io/ (or the similar implement in this project: https://github.com/whitead/paper-qa/blob/main/paperqa/docs.py) would offer ideas.

It would certainly be nice to search my library by embedding rather than trying to guess the right word.

rabitai · 2023-03-06T20:36:42+00:00

LangChain has a JS implementation (https://github.com/hwchase17/langchainjs) which is perhaps easier to integrate? Paper-QA is based on LangChain too.

jiayipan · 2023-03-22T05:19:00+00:00

Hi I am working on a Zotero extension on the exact feature ( paper-qa like experience within Zotero), will try to release it within next month:)

sheldon123z · 2023-03-22T07:24:31+00:00

@jiayipan when you release the extension, please let us know, that's would be very cool