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.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.hcinlp-1.6
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Bridging Human--Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Editors:
- Su Lin Blodgett, Amanda Cercas Curry, Sunipa Dey, Michael Madaio, Ani Nenkova, Diyi Yang, Ziang Xiao
- Venues:
- HCINLP | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 60–73
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.hcinlp-1.6
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2024.hcinlp-1.6
- Cite (ACL):
- 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.
- Cite (Informal):
- An Interactive Co-Pilot for Accelerated Research Ideation (Nigam et al., HCINLP-WS 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2024.hcinlp-1.6.pdf