CONNECT: find your dream team

CONNECT is an AI-powered tool designed to support the creation of research teams targeting competitive funding calls. The tool takes a short input text (for instance the scientific objectives of a specific call) and analyzes the metadata of scholarly publications (title and abstract) from a repository to suggest a list of potential collaborators, based on semantic similarity and scientific relevance. The current instance includes all the researchers from ten research institutions located across Europe.

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SoftwareX
Published
2026-01-21
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2026.102522
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Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
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Abstract

CONNECT is an AI-powered tool designed to support the creation of research teams targeting competitive funding calls. The tool takes a short input text (for instance the scientific objectives of a specific call) and analyzes the metadata of scholarly publications (title and abstract) from a repository to suggest a list of potential collaborators, based on semantic similarity and scientific relevance. The current instance includes all the researchers from ten research institutions located across Europe.

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