JavaFX In Action #25 with Lidiany Cerqueira about CERCA, a tool to detect hallucinated references in scientific papers

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Every week I collect a list of posts, social messages, videos, etc. related to JavaFX on the JFX Central Links Of The Week. That's how I recently found a message from Lidiany Cerqueira on LinkedIn about CERCA. It's a tool she created during her Christmas break to detect false/hallucinated references in scientific manuscripts.

About Lidiany

Lidiany Cerqueira is a Senior Software Engineer and Computer Science researcher, living in Brazil, and working at the intersection of software engineering and human values. With over 15 years of industry experience and a PhD in Computer Science, her research interests include software engineering, human-centered computing, and empirical research.

She has experience in teaching and outreach, working with students from both traditional computer science programs and non-CS backgrounds, and is a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion in technology, and currently serves as a Community Manager at BRAVAS in Tech.

She created the CERCA application because she serves as an active reviewer for top-tier software engineering venues and is a member of the program committee for several conferences, contributing to the research community through peer review and service.

You can find her on:

About CERCA

CERCA is an open-source research tool that supports the verification of bibliographic references in scientific manuscripts. It extracts references from PDF files and checks their existence and consistency against authoritative metadata sources, producing explainable diagnostics, audit logs, and reproducible reports.

You can find more information about CERCA on:

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