CRUISE-Screening: Living Literature Reviews Toolbox
Wojciech Kusa Petr Knoth Allan Hanbury
Keeping up with research and finding related work is still a time-consuming
task for academics. Researchers sift through thousands of studies to identify a
few relevant ones. Automation techniques can help by increasing the efficiency
and effectiveness of this task. To this end, we developed CRUISE-Screening, a
web-based application for conducting living literature reviews - a type of
literature review that is continuously updated to reflect the latest research
in a particular field. CRUISE-Screening is connected to several search engines
via an API, which allows for updating the search results periodically.
Moreover, it can facilitate the process of screening for relevant publications
by using text classification and question answering models. CRUISE-Screening
can be used both by researchers conducting literature reviews and by those
working on automating the citation screening process to validate their
algorithms. The application is open-source:
https://github.com/ProjectDoSSIER/cruise-screening, and a demo is available
under this URL: https://citation-screening.ec.tuwien.ac.at. We discuss the
limitations of our tool in Appendix A.