Glossary

Terms

Deep research

An AI workflow that plans a question, runs many searches, reads the sources it finds and writes a long, cited report.

Literature review

A structured summary of published research on a question, built from a defined search and clear selection rules.

Citation check

The step of confirming that a cited source exists, matches its details and supports the sentence it is attached to.

Hallucination

Output from an AI model that states something false or unsupported as if it were true.

Systematic review

A review that follows a written protocol to find, screen and appraise all studies on a narrow question.

Semantic search

Search that matches the meaning of a query, not only the exact words in it.

Source grounding

Designing an AI answer so each claim links to a specific passage in a real source that supports it.

Benchmark

A fixed set of tasks, scored the same way, used to compare systems on one measure.

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