Workshop Focus
Discover how to use advanced tools to accelerate reading, distill complex information, structure archives, and deepen your independent research projects.
See How It Boosts ResearchAI excels at processing large volumes of text and data, skills traditionally reserved for highly specialized research assistants. Today's AI tools can quickly read articles, books, and reports, extracting key concepts and generating summaries that save hours of manual labor.
Instead of reading 100 pages, you can get the critical arguments in a concise, organized format, allowing you to focus your valuable time on analysis and synthesis.
We cover practical, secure tools that link directly to PDFs, academic databases, and personal document archives, making your existing knowledge instantly searchable and actionable.
Summarize long research papers, governmental reports, or archived family histories down to key bullet points or a short abstract.
Translate foreign language source materials (like old SNU publications or historical Korean documents) with contextual accuracy for immediate understanding.
Use AI to identify key sources referenced in a text, generate accurate citation formats, and verify the accuracy of claims using current web data.
Automatically pull specific data points (dates, names, statistics) from dozens of documents and consolidate them into a clean spreadsheet format.
Submit a draft of an argument and ask the AI to critically assess its structure, identify logical gaps, or suggest counter-arguments to strengthen your position.
Learn how to use AI to tag, categorize, and create a searchable index for your accumulated research notes, lecture slides, or personal collections.
Our workshop emphasizes practical demonstrations and hands-on exercises tailored to the research needs of retired academics and lifelong learners.
We will work together on real-world examples: uploading a complex paper and learning the prompting techniques to generate high-quality summaries and insights.
A key focus is learning to identify "hallucinations" (AI mistakes) and using AI to provide citations, ensuring that all derived information is properly verified and trustworthy.
All workshop materials are provided, focusing on tools designed for research and confidentiality.