Documentation

Analysis workflow

CScope processes a paper in eight stages, from parsing the manuscript to building a complete revision checklist.

1. Paper structure

CScope first organizes the title, abstract, sections, body text, references, figures, and tables. All later checks use this cleaned version of the paper.

PDF

An on-demand MinerU container parses the PDF. Markdown, figures, and tables are stored in the project directory. The cleanup step fixes hard line breaks, column-order errors, and stray text extracted from figures without rewriting the paper's claims.

LaTeX

CScope reads the project from the main .tex file selected by the author and keeps the section hierarchy and source-file relationships. References and appendices are identified separately so they are not treated as ordinary body text.

2. Research landscape

CScope builds a picture of the paper's research background from its title, abstract, introduction, Related Work section, in-text citations, and references, then searches for relevant work across several directions.

  1. Generate queries around the research problem, methods, datasets, competing approaches, and neighboring topics.
  2. Run general searches through SearXNG alongside dedicated academic sources.
  3. Use the first-round results to continue searching for foundational work, direct competitors, and missing directions.
  4. Build a graph for each research direction to show influence, comparison, or provenance relationships between papers.

3. Compliance review

Using the selected target conference, CScope checks page limits, anonymity, embedded fonts, page dimensions, and other submission requirements. Because conference rules can change between cycles, authors should confirm the results against the official call for papers.

4. Method analysis

This stage reads the full method-related content and compares it with the related work found earlier. It checks whether the objective, components, and data flow are clear; whether assumptions and intermediate steps are coherent; whether key design choices are necessary; and whether simpler or established alternatives exist. It also lists risks involving leakage, optimization, statistics, and evaluation design.

5. Macro logic

CScope connects the paper's motivation, method, experimental design, and conclusions. It checks whether the evidence supports the claims and compares numbers and statements across the abstract, body text, equations, figures, tables, conclusion, and appendices to identify inconsistencies.

6. Full review

Several review agents examine background and novelty, methodology, logic and consistency, experimental results, and writing from separate perspectives. Their questions, strengths, weaknesses, and internal scores are then synthesized under the scoring criteria of the target conference.

7. Section analysis

CScope analyzes the manuscript at section level, explaining the role, internal logic, and potential problems of each section.

8. Revision checklist

The final stage combines findings from the compliance review, method analysis, macro logic, full review, and section analysis. Duplicate findings are merged, and revision tasks are ordered by importance.