"Most researchers have good reason to grumble about peer review: it is time-consuming and error-prone, and the workload is unevenly spread, with just 20% of scientists taking on most reviews."
"ScholarOne, a peer-review platform used by many journals, is teaming up with UNSILO of Aarhus, Denmark, which uses natural language processing and machine learning to analyse manuscripts. UNSILO automatically pulls out key concepts to summarize what the paper is about. UNSILO uses semantic analysis of the manuscript text to extract what it identifies as the main statements... UNSILO then identifies which of these key phrases are most likely to be claims or findings, giving editors an at-a-glance summary of a study’s results. It also highlights whether the claims are similar to those from previously published papers, which could be used to detect plagiarism or simply to place the manuscript in context with related work in the wider literature."
Details not disclosed, but some form of natural language processing.
"UNSILO’s prototype gets information from the PubMed Central scholarly database, which lets it compare new manuscripts with the full text of 1.7 million published biomedical research papers — a large, but limited, data set. The company says it will soon add more than 20 million further PubMed papers."
In prototype phase currently; results not yet available.