This is very very cool, and makes for a good demo too.
One suggestion would be to put the latest topic on top - or at least vertically near where you type.
Second being able to pick the corpus being used for matching. might make it interesting. Say IEEE or ACM, or PubMed. Might bring up interesting things that others have written that are similar, which they've not noticed before.
I can see a very good match with technical writing, publications, etc. Esp if you can pull in excerpts. This would make for much better writing for many who may not have Eng as first language.
Oh yes. Give me what you just described, integrated into a typesetting system that can produce scientific papers of LaTex quality (or, simply, a LaTex editor like Kile) and make citations to those sidebar infos drag & droppable, with links to the fulltext PDF (might need integrated Login handling for the electronic publishers).
Second idea: Scratch that and integrate it into a PDF reader instead and instead of drag & drop give me the citations as plaintext popups (this way it would be useful for other purposes, even book reading).
One suggestion would be to put the latest topic on top - or at least vertically near where you type.
Second being able to pick the corpus being used for matching. might make it interesting. Say IEEE or ACM, or PubMed. Might bring up interesting things that others have written that are similar, which they've not noticed before.
I can see a very good match with technical writing, publications, etc. Esp if you can pull in excerpts. This would make for much better writing for many who may not have Eng as first language.
Neat!