Joeran Beel | Web IR NLP Group @ NUS

What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Min was quoted in the news feature on Nature Communications: “The important thing is these [AI] tools are going to be here. We need to find the right way of using them”.

In a Nature news feature on “What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks”, writer Ananya quoted joint research work from WING; our collaboration with Univ. of Siegen’s Dr. Joeran Beel on Sakana’s AI Scientist and its promises, challenges and implications for Information Retrieval research.

Read our original pre-print here: Evaluating Sakana’s AI Scientist for Autonomous Research: Wishful Thinking or an Emerging Reality Towards ‘Artificial Research Intelligence’ (ARI)?.

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Evaluating Sakana's AI Scientist for Autonomous Research: Wishful Thinking or an Emerging Reality Towards 'Artificial Research Intelligence' (ARI)?

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Assessing the AI Scientist

Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Our collaboration with Joeran Beel and Moritz Baumgart of ISG Siegen originated from Joeran’s sabbatical visit with WING in Oct 2024. Moritz, a talented undergraduate student at University of Siegen, joined us as a research assistant, working remotely which coordinated with his advisor here in NUS.

Over the course of Joeran’s visit, we were able to install and test the AI Scientist system advertised as an automated robo scientist by Sakana.AI. We find positive use cases, but also weaknesses that need much handholding from us.

Haomeng, Rui Feng and Nura join our team as students working towards assessing the growing variety of LLM based research agents going into 2025.