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Semantic literature discovery and synthesis using embeddings

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# Semantic Paper Radar

## Overview

Traditional literature search relies on keyword matching—you find papers that contain the exact terms you search for. Semantic paper discovery goes further by understanding the meaning of research content and finding papers that are conceptually related, even when they use different terminology. This is especially powerful for interdisciplinary research, where the same idea may be expressed in completely different vocabularies across fields.

The Semantic Paper Radar skill provides methods for using embedding-based semantic search, vector databases, and AI-powered synthesis to build a comprehensive, continuously updated view of the literature relevant to your research. It enables you to discover papers you would never find through keyword search alone and to synthesize findings across large bodies of work.

This skill covers setting up a personal semantic search index over your paper collection, querying public semantic search APIs, and using LLM-powered analysis to extract themes and connections from clusters of related papers.

## Semantic Search Fundamentals

### How Embedding-Based Search Works
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