2025/04/15 by Amanpreet Singh, Singh, Amanpreet, Joseph Chee Chang +32 · 5 citations
Computer Science · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Topic Modeling #Expert finding and Q&A systems #Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2504.10861
Retrieval-augmented generation is increasingly effective in answering scientific questions from literature, but many state-of-the-art systems are expensive and closed-source. We introduce Ai2 Scholar QA, a free online scientific question answering application. To facilitate research, we make our entire pipeline public: as a customizable open-source Python package and interactive web app, along with paper indexes accessible through public APIs and downloadable datasets. We describe our system in detail and present experiments analyzing its key design decisions. In an evaluation on a recent scientific QA benchmark, we find that Ai2 Scholar QA outperforms competing systems.