CiteRead: Integrating Localized Citation Contexts into Scientific Paper Reading
@article{Rachatasumrit2022CiteReadIL,
title={CiteRead: Integrating Localized Citation Contexts into Scientific Paper Reading},
author={Napol Rachatasumrit and Jonathan Bragg and Amy X. Zhang and Daniel S. Weld},
journal={Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces},
year={2022},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:247585131}
}A novel paper reading experience that integrates relevant information about follow-on work directly into a paper, allowing readers to learn about newer papers and see how a paper is discussed by its citing papers in the context of the reference paper.
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