5/28/25: Evaluate last abstract and start reading the winning article

 The Human Race Into Space Requires Kidneys, and Other Important Topics 

 

          A research and discussion group             

---

Agenda and Minutes

1. Discuss the paper that was submitted.
1. Estimate that we will hear back about the reviewing around June 13.
2. We found some papers to consider reading. We can screen their abstracts next time.
1. A Socratic RAG Approach to Connect Natural Language Queries on Research Topics with Knowledge Organization Systems. L Lefton, K Rong, C Dankhara, L Ghemri… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org. … (RAG) agent that maps natural language queries about research topics to precise, machine-interpretable semantic entities. Our approach combines RAG with Socratic dialogue to align … . A few pages. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/education/articles/10.3389/feduc.2025.1528603/full; https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15005
• Eval: 4 1/6
• We finished up to the introduction and can start there next time. There is a lot to learn! 
2. Google Scholar: intitle:socratic intitle:"large language models": SocraticLM: Exploring socratic personalized teaching with large language models
   J Liu, Z Huang, T Xiao, J Sha, J Wu… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
   Large language models (LLMs) are considered a crucial technology for advancing intelligent
   education since they exhibit the potential for an in-depth understanding of teaching … Cited by 13 Related articles All 2 versions
• 3.5
3. Prompting large language models with the socratic method 
   
   EY Chang - 2023 IEEE 13th annual computing and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
   … Abstract—This paper presents a systematic approach to using the Socratic method in
   developing prompt templates that effectively interact with large language models, including GPT-3. … Cited by 78 Related articles All 4 versions
• 3 1/2
4. The art of SOCRATIC QUESTIONING: Recursive thinking with large language models,  J Qi, Z Xu, Y Shen, M Liu, D Jin, Q Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
   … Specifically, SOCRATIC QUESTIONING leverages large language models to raise and …
   Unlike CoT, SOCRATIC QUESTIONING explicitly navigates the thinking space, stimulates … Cited by 25 Related articles All 5 versions

   • 4
5. Google Scholar: intitle:socratic intitle:"generative artificial intelligence":  1 result: Socratic Dialogue with Generative Artificial Intelligence: Where is the Future?
   J Leoste, K Fenyvesi, G di Rosario - Future of Information and …, 2025 - Springer

   This paper demonstrates the practical use of AI in academic writing, utilizing OpenAI's GPT-4 to generate and refine content through a collaborative dialogue between the researcher. We rated it 3.75 on 6/4/2025.