Sofia Search: A Tool for Automating Related-Work Search
Summary: Automates end-to-end related-work discovery from a seed set via web-scale candidate retrieval, relevance scoring, and automatic copy download. Provides evaluation and ranking modules for papers and authors in the retrieved corpus, plus a lightweight interface for exploration. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Behzad Golshan (Boston University)
- 2. Theodoros Lappas (Boston University)
- 3. Evimaria Terzi (Boston University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{golshan_sigmod12,
title = {{Sofia Search: A Tool for Automating Related-Work Search}},
author = {Golshan, Behzad and Lappas, Theodoros and Terzi, Evimaria},
series = {{SIGMOD} '12},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2213836.2213915},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213836.2213915},
year = {2012}
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