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• Breaking ideas down into component parts facilitates creative reinterpretation

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• Compression facilitates synthesis

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• Context is necessary for knowledge reuse

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• Discourse graphs could significantly accelerate human synthesis work

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• Effective individual synthesis systems (seem to mostly) exist (for a select few)

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• Effective synthesis is necessary for innovation and scientific progress

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• End user programming enables people to bulk process notes

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• Hypertext enables communication with high information density

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• People naturally try to enact typed distinctions in their notes

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• People process complex information in multiple levels and stages of processing

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• Scholarly argumentation operates on atomic statements and concepts as fundamental units

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• Synthesis as a process is usefully modeled as a specialized form of sensemaking

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• Synthesis is hard to do with people who don’t share context with you

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• Synthesis tools need to support incremental formalization

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• Search terms as the basis for user-defined subscriptions

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• User-created consistent rules as a primitive

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• searchable blobs as unnamed groups enable unnamed formalization

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• Learning Loop Complex

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• NVivo

• Notional Model of Sensemaking

• How do we enable many users with their own idiosyncratic structure to converge in one discourse graph?

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• How might we navigate the structure now or later tradeoffs?

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• What are the most efficient routes to useful cross-boundary knowledge?

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• What is a decentralized discourse graph?

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• What is synthesis?

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• What is the role of AI in facilitating a decentralized discourse graph?

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• What user behaviors are scholars doing already that specify structure for synthesis?

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• Accelerating Scientific Discovery by Lowering Barriers to User-Generated Synthesis of Scientific Literature

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• Collaborative information synthesis

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• Context Grabbing Assigning Metadata in Large Document Collections

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• Information and Context

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• Knowledge Synthesis- a conceptual model and practical guide

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• The common forms of structure people add to their notes