CiteBot — Intelligent Citation Assistant

An open-source tool that automates academic citation workflows. Give it a .tex file, and it produces a complete references.bib with relevant, well-formatted references.

How It Works

1. Parse LaTeX documents (supports multi-file thesis projects)
2. Extract keywords using LLM semantic analysis + NLP ensemble (KeyBERT, YAKE, spaCy)
3. Search 5 academic databases in parallel (OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, arXiv, BioRxiv)
4. Rank results using composite scoring (keyword overlap, citations, recency, abstract similarity)
5. Generate BibTeX via DOI content negotiation
6. Insert \cite{} commands with fuzzy title matching (optional)

Key Features

• LLM + NLP fusion: Combines semantic understanding with statistical term extraction; terms appearing in both get a 1.5x relevance boost
• Multi-file support: Recursive \input/\include resolution with per-chapter context-aware extraction
• Async search: All database queries execute in parallel via asyncio
• Immutable data pipeline: Frozen dataclasses throughout, preventing mutation bugs in async code
• Graceful degradation: Every component has a fallback — LLM→NLP, DOI→metadata, source failures skip gracefully

Links

• GitHub Repository