◆ In the following descriptions, the letter following each “Task” (e.g., Task A) corresponds to the codes (A–Q) listed under “Outsourcing task(s)” in the Contact Us form.
The results by A2K are provided in A2K Descriptions, which consist of three components: Subject, Action, and Process.
For example, when an astrophysics researcher focuses on three key terms: “hayabusa,” “ryugu,” and “organic,” many documents are subject to A2K analysis. One such document (here) contains approximately 8,500 words (11 pages).
A2K analysis for this document summarizes and compresses the entire text into approximately 150 A2K Descriptions, each containing at least one of the key terms. Compared to manually reviewing the full paper, this approach significantly reduces the time and effort required for gathering key information.
Below is an example of an A2K Description extracted from this document. For instance, the document contains the following sentence:
“Hayabusa2 spacecraft collected surface regolith particles from Ryugu in two separate touchdown events, which were stored in collection chambers A and C of the spacecraft’s sample catcher.”
From this sentence, the following A2K Description is obtained (highlighted in green are the key terms):
Subject: "Hayabusa2 spacecraft" » Action: "collected" » Process: "surface regolith particles from Ryugu in two separate touchdown events"
Using this A2K Description, readers can quickly and easily grasp the key information in the document.
The figure below shows an example of A2K Descriptions extracted from this document.