Augmenting Science Journalism
Inside the SMC Lab, we’re not just observing science journalism; we’re actively shaping it. Serving as an essential segment of the Science Media Center Germany, we’re pioneering advancements in how scientific discoveries and understanding reach the public.
This blog is your front-row seat to our work, offering a firsthand look at innovative projects, profound research, and our commitment to making science and news accessible for all.
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From Project Classification to Information Extraction: Building the Full Pipeline
Building the End-to-End Pipeline Now that the classifier and extractor modules are in place, the final step is to combine them into an end-to-end pipeline. For this, we use LangGraph, a framework designed to build modular, stateful LLM workflows and control their execution across multiple steps. To implement the classifier and extractor module within the…
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How We Defined and Tested Our LLM Pipeline
What is Relevance? The first challenge in building the pipeline was to define what qualifies as a relevant press release. The aim was to translate the implicit knowledge within the newsroom about which research projects may matter to the public into an explicit prompt that an LLM can apply consistently. However, before attempting this, we…
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From Press Releases to Research Projects: Why We Built an LLM Pipeline
Every day, various research institutions announce new projects: large collaborative ventures, small exploratory studies, interdisciplinary initiatives, or long-term projects with significant relevance for the society. For science journalism, these projects can offer valuable insights, such as early indicators of scientific trends, emerging research areas, or work that may become newsworthy months or even years later.…
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What Does Our RAG Pipeline Look Like?
After experimenting with many different techniques, we combined the most promising ones (i.e., those that showed performance improvements through visual inspection of the plots compared to the baseline model) and created an advanced RAG pipeline that is now used internally at the Science Media Center Germany. First, we will explain the RAG system’s features. Then,…