📚 SemanticCite

The first AI system for automated full-text citation verification

📄 Paper 💻 GitHub Repository 🌐 Project Homepage

This Hugging Face Space hosts the complete SemanticCite project, including fine-tuned models, training dataset, and interactive demo for AI-powered citation verification.

SemanticCite transforms citation verification by analysing complete source documents and providing nuanced classification through four categories: Supported, Partially Supported, Unsupported, and Uncertain. Beyond simple validation, the system delivers detailed reasoning, confidence scores, and evidence reference snippets that show researchers exactly how their claims connect to the supporting literature.

✨ Key Features

Deep Semantic Analysis: Full-text document analysis with 4-class classification (Supported, Partially Supported, Unsupported, Uncertain)
Lightweight AI Models: Fine-tuned Qwen3 models (1.7B & 4B parameters) with performance comparable to GPT-4
Triple Retrieval System: Dense vector search + sparse BM25 matching + neural reranking with FlashRank
Evidence-Based Reasoning: Ranked text snippets with transparent explanations and confidence scores
Multiple Deployment Options: Web interface, Python API, local/cloud deployment

🤗 Hugging Face Resources

Models

SemanticCite-Refiner-Qwen3-1B - Claim extraction model (1.7B parameters)
SemanticCite-Checker-Qwen3-4B - Citation verification model (4B parameters)

Dataset

SemanticCite-Dataset - 1,111 citation-reference pairs across 8 academic fields with expert annotations

🔧 Technical Architecture

Hybrid Retrieval: BM25 + Dense Vector Search
Reranking: FlashRank neural reranking
Classification: Fine-tuned Qwen3 models with structured output
Embeddings: Local SentenceTransformers or OpenAI embeddings
Storage: ChromaDB vector database

📦 Installation

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/sebhaan/SemanticCite
cd SemanticCite

# Setup environment
conda env create -f environment.yaml
conda activate cite

# Run web interface
streamlit run src/app.py

For local deployment with Ollama:

# Install models
ollama pull sebsigma/semanticcite-refiner-qwen3-1b
ollama pull sebsigma/semanticcite-checker-qwen3-4b

Full documentation available in the GitHub repository.

💼 Tailored Solutions

Need to verify entire documents automatically? Visit semanticcite.com for:

Complete citation system with automatic extraction and verification
Batch processing for large-scale workflows
API integration for editorial and publishing systems
On-premise deployment with custom model training

📄 Citation

If you use SemanticCite in your research, please cite:

@article{semanticcite2025,
  title={SemanticCite: Citation Verification with AI-Powered Full-Text Analysis and Evidence-Based Reasoning},
  author={Sebastian Haan},
  journal={ArXiv Preprint},
  year={2025},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16198}
}