The Oxford English Dictionary’s Advanced Search is a very powerful tool, giving you the opportunity to deep-dive into the dictionary’s content. The many different filters that can be applied enable you to refine your search and find the information most relevant to you. To make this searching easier and more accessible, they have created the OED AI Search Assistant.
With the Oxford English Dictionary AI Search Assistant anyone can submit a question, for example “what words relating to dining entered the English language during the twentieth century?”. The AI Search Assistant will provide a URL to a pre-filtered Advanced Search results page, showing you the parameters it has used. By clicking that URL, you will go to that search results page, and then be able to manipulate or filter down further.
Oxford Academic’s AI Discovery Assistant is easy for anyone to use, regardless of experience. To input a prompt, you must have access to content on Oxford Academic, so make sure you’re signed in. Once you’re signed in, input your prompt:
The assistant will provide ten pieces of content from across Oxford Academic, with the most relevant content right at the top.
Each piece of content is accompanied with an AI-generated two-line synopsis wherever an original abstract is available.
You can ask questions to get more detail, or to clarify your intent.
Then simply click on one of the ten results to go to the content on Oxford Academic that you’re interested in to read the full text. You can use the availability markers, just like in our traditional search, to see which content you have access to.
Start again by clicking “New chat” and input your next prompt.
Please be aware that we do not keep a conversation history. If this is needed for your future reference, please copy and paste information into your digital notebook or word processing application.
