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Autori principali: Gao, Muhan, Shah, Jash, Wang, Weiqi, Huang, Kuan-Hao, Khashabi, Daniel
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13834
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author Gao, Muhan
Shah, Jash
Wang, Weiqi
Huang, Kuan-Hao
Khashabi, Daniel
author_facet Gao, Muhan
Shah, Jash
Wang, Weiqi
Huang, Kuan-Hao
Khashabi, Daniel
contents Scientific knowledge is growing rapidly, making it difficult to track progress and high-level conceptual links across broad disciplines. While tools like citation networks and search engines help retrieve related papers, they lack the abstraction needed to capture the needed to represent the density and structure of activity across subfields. We motivate SCIENCE HIERARCHOGRAPHY, the goal of organizing scientific literature into a high-quality hierarchical structure that spans multiple levels of abstraction -- from broad domains to specific studies. Such a representation can provide insights into which fields are well-explored and which are under-explored. To achieve this goal, we develop a hybrid approach that combines efficient embedding-based clustering with LLM-based prompting, striking a balance between scalability and semantic precision. Compared to LLM-heavy methods like iterative tree construction, our approach achieves superior quality-speed trade-offs. Our hierarchies capture different dimensions of research contributions, reflecting the interdisciplinary and multifaceted nature of modern science. We evaluate its utility by measuring how effectively an LLM-based agent can navigate the hierarchy to locate target papers. Results show that our method improves interpretability and offers an alternative pathway for exploring scientific literature beyond traditional search methods. Code, data and demo are available: https://github.com/JHU-CLSP/science-hierarchography
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spellingShingle Science Hierarchography: Hierarchical Organization of Science Literature
Gao, Muhan
Shah, Jash
Wang, Weiqi
Huang, Kuan-Hao
Khashabi, Daniel
Computation and Language
Scientific knowledge is growing rapidly, making it difficult to track progress and high-level conceptual links across broad disciplines. While tools like citation networks and search engines help retrieve related papers, they lack the abstraction needed to capture the needed to represent the density and structure of activity across subfields. We motivate SCIENCE HIERARCHOGRAPHY, the goal of organizing scientific literature into a high-quality hierarchical structure that spans multiple levels of abstraction -- from broad domains to specific studies. Such a representation can provide insights into which fields are well-explored and which are under-explored. To achieve this goal, we develop a hybrid approach that combines efficient embedding-based clustering with LLM-based prompting, striking a balance between scalability and semantic precision. Compared to LLM-heavy methods like iterative tree construction, our approach achieves superior quality-speed trade-offs. Our hierarchies capture different dimensions of research contributions, reflecting the interdisciplinary and multifaceted nature of modern science. We evaluate its utility by measuring how effectively an LLM-based agent can navigate the hierarchy to locate target papers. Results show that our method improves interpretability and offers an alternative pathway for exploring scientific literature beyond traditional search methods. Code, data and demo are available: https://github.com/JHU-CLSP/science-hierarchography
title Science Hierarchography: Hierarchical Organization of Science Literature
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13834