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I am always looking for ideas for software that I could work on that seems more useful than cat pictures, and this gets pretty high up in my estimation. Most of my minimal NLP expertise is being used up in developing software for foreign language instruction in the near future, but I'm definitely bookmarking this just in case I can ever take it up later.

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I am not sure that this will work anytime soon, even if NLP gets better substantially. I think the problem reduces to examination of patents and their novelty. I think that having algorithms to find related work is going to be hard to the point of it being unreliable. For example, in CS there is a trend of changing nomenclature every n years, which I think makes it hard to find related work.

Google manages to serve advertisements despite changing nomenclature. We're just talking about "advertising" papers based on various data about the paper under submission.

It would be really great to see somebody take this on! Although if this idea makes you into a millionaire, then you'll owe me a burrito, okay?

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