An Interactive Co-Pilot for Accelerated Research Ideation

Harshit Nigam, Manasi Patwardhan, Lovekesh Vig, Gautam Shroff


Abstract
In the realm of research support tools, there exists a notable void in resources tailored specifically for aiding researchers during the crucial ideation phase of the research life-cycle. We address this gap by introducing ‘Acceleron’, a ‘Co-Pilot’ for researchers, designed specifically to accelerate the ideation phase of the research life-cycle. Leveraging the reasoning and domain-specific skills of Large Language Models (LLMs) within an agent-based architecture with distinct personas, Acceleron aids researchers through the formulation of a comprehensive research proposals. It emulates the ideation process, engaging researchers in an interactive fashion to validate the novelty of the proposal and generate plausible set-of hypotheses. Notably, it addresses challenges inherent in LLMs, such as hallucinations, implements a two-stage aspect-based retrieval to manage precision-recall trade-offs, and tackles issues of unanswerability. Our observations and end-user evaluations illustrate the efficacy of Acceleron as an enhancer of researcher’s productivity.
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2024.hcinlp-1.6
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Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Bridging Human--Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing
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June
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2024
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Mexico City, Mexico
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Su Lin Blodgett, Amanda Cercas Curry, Sunipa Dey, Michael Madaio, Ani Nenkova, Diyi Yang, Ziang Xiao
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HCINLP | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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60–73
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Harshit Nigam, Manasi Patwardhan, Lovekesh Vig, and Gautam Shroff. 2024. An Interactive Co-Pilot for Accelerated Research Ideation. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Bridging Human--Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing, pages 60–73, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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