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Liner is creating an opportunity to academically verify everyday curiosities using AI.

On the 16th, Liner announced that it will host the first Liner Scholar Research Contest. The contest’s theme is "Verifying the common beliefs we have long taken for granted through papers."

The contest is a research competition that verifies everyday assumptions and vague common beliefs with academic evidence. Participants select one topic and then conduct research using "Liner Scholar," Liner’s AI agent for academic research.

During the process, participants search for and compare relevant papers. The research proceeds by starting from one question and comparing the findings and evidence from various academic papers, while differences depending on the research subject and experimental conditions are also included as analytical factors.

Suggested topics include the learning effects of digital note-taking versus handwriting and whether studying while listening to music improves concentration. Participants will submit a short paper containing participant analysis and conclusions after going through this process, and derive a final conclusion in the last stage.

The contest is designed so that anyone can take on academic research regardless of major, education level, or research experience. A defining feature is that it lowers the entry barrier to research processes that had traditionally been seen as requiring specialized knowledge or research experience by applying AI support to the paper search and analysis process.

Judging will exclude uncritical acceptance of AI answers and instead assess whether participants directly verified the evidence in multiple papers, compared differing research results, and logically structured their own arguments. Accordingly, the focus of evaluation is on the process by which participants check paper-based evidence and build arguments by comparing different research findings, rather than on the AI responses themselves.

The tool used in the research process is Liner Scholar. Based on an academic database of more than 500 million papers worldwide, Liner Scholar supports academic information search and analysis, more than double the roughly 200 million papers typically offered in the industry. Through this, it provides an environment in which users can examine diverse perspectives on a specific research topic and review its academic basis.

Liner described Liner Scholar’s goal as an "AI co-researcher" that goes beyond paper search and works alongside users throughout the research process. The underlying technology is "agentic research," which understands research context and then carries out the required tasks. Based on this, Liner said it supports prior research exploration and comparative analysis, hypothesis generation, academic evidence review, and citation recommendations.

Anyone aged 14 or older with South Korean nationality can participate for free regardless of major, education level, or research experience. The application deadline is 24:00 on October 25, and participants must submit a short paper PDF in the official format by November 8. Judging will then proceed through paper review and the final presentation stage.

Kim Jin-woo, CEO of Liner, said that the starting point of research is a question about familiar phenomena in everyday life. He added that he hopes this contest will give a wide range of participants, from students to office workers, an opportunity to verify their curiosity with academic evidence and turn it into a paper.

Adding to the earlier explanation, the speaker further mentioned support for using AI co-researchers through Liner Scholar, saying the company aims to help many people experience a research process in which they voluntarily ask questions and verify them with an AI co-researcher, while also helping them experience the joy of research.

Source: IT DAILY · Yang Seung-gap
Original: https://www.itdaily.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=242254

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