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by Quizzical4230 542 days ago
Thank you for taking the time to try out the site!

arXiv has a keyword based search engine. It looks for words as is in the text. PaperMatch tries to find similar papers that are closer in meaning.

Here is an alternative approach: Take one paper that you like, copy the abstract from arXiv (or arXiv ID) and paste it in PaperMatch. This should help you find similar papers.

1 comments

Very nice! Putting in an arXiv ID looks to produce many results that are much more relevant.

EDIT: You should provide this in an "information"/"about"/"how to use" dialogue or page to help people use the tool better.

Thank you!

I agree, since this site has the same interface, people expect it to work the same way. Which I was going for but didn't realise the cons of it. I will add an about section!