- What does CiteCheck do?
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You upload a finished report. It lists each quotation with the source the report cites, fetches
each source, and tells you whether the quotation is there. Where it is, you see the passage.
The guide explains every result.
- What does CiteCollect do?
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It is for a team writing a report. Each researcher adds quotes as they find them, and each quote is
checked against its source right away. A coordinator puts them in order and gets a Word file. Anyone
can start one in their own workspace, and in a team its coordinators do; for the Word file to come out in your organisation's own format,
get in touch and we'll set up your template.
- What does CiteFind do?
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You type a research question. It searches for public sources, reads them, and shows passages about
your question in each source's own words, with the address. A model chooses the passages, but every
word shown is cut from the source. It is not a complete search, so it is a place to start reading.
- Does an AI decide whether a quote is real?
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No. Ordinary code compares the words: exactly, then ignoring punctuation, then allowing small
differences. The row says which of these matched. A model can give a second opinion on a row, such
as whether the source says the same thing in other words. It appears as an opinion and can't change
the result.
- What does the model do, then?
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It reads the report and points at where the quotations are and which link each one cites. The code
then cuts the words from your file, and only accepts links that are in your file. A model can't write
a quote or invent an address, so a row with no address stays empty and asks you for one.
- Why not paste the report into a chatbot?
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A chatbot's answer reads just as confidently when it never opened the source, and it can differ each
time you ask. Any passage it shows was typed by the model, so that can be wrong too. Here each row
shows the source's own words, or says why the source couldn't be read.
- Can the results be wrong?
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Yes. A page may have changed since the report was written, or the link may lead to a page about the
document and not the document itself. A close match can also hide a changed word, which is why rows
show the words that differ. Treat "Not found" as a reason to open the link, and read the source before
you change a citation.
- What if a site blocks the check?
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The row says so, and this never counts as "Not found", because it tells you about our access and
nothing about the quote. Where it can, the tool looks for a dated copy in the Internet Archive and
shows the date.
- What kinds of report does it work on?
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PDF and Word files up to 25 MB with readable text. A scan with no text layer is
refused. It needs the links to be in the file. We have measured it on country of origin information
reports from NGOs. Other reports that quote and link to their sources should work, but we haven't
measured them.
- What about quotes in translation?
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The word comparison doesn't translate, so a translated quote first comes back "Not found". A model can
then say that the passage is a translation, and the row shows the source's own words for you to compare.
- How long does it take?
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It depends mostly on how many sources the report cites. You can leave the page and the work carries
on. We'll send you an email when it ends if you've left, unless you turn that off.
