YANPA: Tools for Rapid Understanding of Scientific Literature

"Mathieu Bastian, from the Duke's Choice Award winning Gephi project, told me about yet another NetBeans Platform application (a.k.a. YANPA) this week. Action Science Explorer, created at the University of Maryland, generates readily-consumable surveys of different scientific domains and topics, targeted to different audiences and levels. The development team created an infrastructure for automatic summarization of research domains that links bibliometric lexical link mining, summarization techniques, and visualization tools. The tool presents academic literature for a field using many different modalities: lists of articles, their full texts, automatic text summaries, and visualizations of the structure of the citation network...."