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Research radar

Research, standards and methods relevant to accessible STEM learning materials, semantic reconstruction and multimodal AI.

The research radar puts new and foundational work into context for IncluLearn.AI, including limitations, evidence type and open research questions.

Guiding questions

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  • Which methods can reliably reconstruct document structure and STEM semantics?
  • Where are the limits of current VLM, OCR and document-AI approaches?
  • Which representations and evaluation methods actually help blind and visually impaired learners?

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From Document AI to reviewed subject semantics

Modern Document AI models can reconstruct layout, text and scientific markup from visual documents. For IncluLearn.AI, this is an important building block — but it is not yet the subject semantics of circuits, UML, plots or other STEM artefacts.

Why alt text is not enough for STEM

Technical diagrams, mathematics, circuits and quantitative graphics carry structure and relationships that often cannot be represented meaningfully in one short image description. IncluLearn.AI therefore considers structured, textual, tactile and auditory representations.

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  1. Research radarArticlePreparation phase

    From Document AI to reviewed subject semantics

    Modern Document AI models can reconstruct layout, text and scientific markup from visual documents. For IncluLearn.AI, this is an important building block — but it is not yet the subject semantics of circuits, UML, plots or other STEM artefacts.

    Published: · Event: · documented retrospectively

  2. Research radarArticlePreparation phase

    What current diagram AI can already do — and where it still fails

    Recent VLM research shows progress on charts, UML and scientific diagrams. At the same time, many benchmarks measure question answering rather than complete reconstruction — a crucial distinction for accessible STEM representations.

    Published: · Event: · documented retrospectively

  3. Research radarArticlePreparation phase

    Why alt text is not enough for STEM

    Technical diagrams, mathematics, circuits and quantitative graphics carry structure and relationships that often cannot be represented meaningfully in one short image description. IncluLearn.AI therefore considers structured, textual, tactile and auditory representations.

    Published: · Event: · documented retrospectively

  1. Research radarArticlePreparation phase

    How we compare models before deciding on fine-tuning

    IncluLearn.AI does not want to reduce model quality to a single benchmark. Reference data, preprocessing, structured output, rules and review paths should first be compared under the same conditions; fine-tuning remains a targeted option for clearly identified error classes.

    Published: · Event: · documented retrospectively