2 papers
cs.CY2026
Demystifying Funding: Reconstructing a Unified Dataset of the UK Funding Lifecycle
William Thorne, Rupert Shepherd, Diana Maynard
We present a reconstruction of UKRI's Gateway to Research (GtR) database that links funding opportunities to their resulting project proposals through panel meeting outcomes. Unlik…
cs.CL2026
Evaluating LLM-Based Grant Proposal Review via Structured Perturbations
William Thorne, Joseph James, Yang Wang +2
As AI-assisted grant proposals outpace manual review capacity in a kind of ``Malthusian trap'' for the research ecosystem, this paper investigates the capabilities and limitations…