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SOTA Search Over Academic Publications
State of the art search over research papers and technical publications, backed by a dedicated index of ~350 million publications.
TL;DR
- Exa has launched a new search feature for academic papers and technical publications.
- It uses a dedicated index of approximately 350 million publications and 30 million authors.
- The search functionality supports natural language queries, even for vague or incomplete memories of papers.
- Exa's search is designed to work semantically, understanding the meaning of queries rather than relying solely on exact keywords or titles.
- Evaluations show Exa achieving 82.8% recall on its benchmarks, outperforming competitors like Perplexity and Google Scholar.
- The system's architecture involves OCR and document parsing for PDFs, combined with metadata and web indexing for comprehensive searching.
- The search API is available for use with the 'publication' category.