
Sparrho: personalised recommendation platform for scientific content - fitzwatermellow
https://www.sparrho.com/
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nl
This seems nice, but wow the whole process of setting up a channel seems like
a return to 2000 technology. Enter keywords, choose sources, click some weird
icon? Hmm.

The Allen AI institute's Semantic Search product[1] is much better at
exploring a topic. OTOH it has no way to subscribe

[1]
[https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Deep%20Learning](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Deep%20Learning)

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versteegen
I don't really see what you're complaining about. You can filter by document
type (is that what you mean by source?), but it's not necessary.

Comparing the results of these two sites, SemanticScholar gives me the most
cited papers from the last ten years, which I already knew about, while
Sparrho feeds me very recent but still highly relevant papers which I mostly
hadn't seen. Therefore I find Sparrho far more useful for already familiar
topics. Neither site seems to have an option to change the search timeframe.

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nl
_I don 't really see what you're complaining about_

Really? When I do a search, I'm seeing a big block at the top of the UI to get
me to setup a channel. It's big enough that I'm only seeing on row of search
results (15" MBP).

 _You can filter by document type (is that what you mean by source?)_

The bottom of this block says "Select specific article source (currently
optimised for Chemistry).

 _Comparing the results of these two sites, SemanticScholar gives me the most
cited papers from the last ten years, which I already knew about, while
Sparrho feeds me very recent but still highly relevant papers which I mostly
hadn 't seen. Therefore I find Sparrho far more useful for already familiar
topics. Neither site seems to have an option to change the search timeframe._

I agree that are for different things, but SemenaticScholar does have the
option to change the timeframe (on the right-hand side, there is a graph with
number of results per year. Slide the sliders down the bottom, eg:
[https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?year[]=2015&year[]=20...](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?year\[\]=2015&year\[\]=2016&q=Deep%20Learning))

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versteegen
_The bottom of this block says "Select specific article source (currently
optimised for Chemistry)._

Ah, I didn't notice that, because it's cut off at "Select specific article
source (currently optimised for". There are several font problems, most
alarmingly some 400px high text. And there is apparently no way to select the
journals, despite what it says.

 _SemenaticScholar does have the option to change the timeframe_

Thanks!

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java-man
something similar I've done for [http://news-ai.com](http://news-ai.com)

