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A Multilingual Research Assistant Is Still an Infrastructure Project

TL;DR for operators A specialised research platform does not need to discard its documents, metadata, search history, licensing rules, or expert workflows to add an AI assistant. ReSearch_SSH1 instead proposes a modular layer over the existing ISIDORE infrastructure. The design combines multilingual domain adaptation with retrieval that connects documents through authors, institutions, themes, citations, and other relationships rather than returning isolated text matches. Most retrieval, reranking, generation, and public knowledge components could be reused elsewhere. ...

August 4, 2026 · 9 min · Zelina
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Lost in Translation: When Multilingual LLMs Miss the Medical Plot

Accuracy is a seductive number. It is tidy, executive-friendly, and easy to put in a slide deck. A model gets 82% accuracy, someone says “good enough,” and suddenly a clinical workflow is being “transformed.” Healthcare, as usual, has a way of punishing this kind of optimism. Not loudly at first. Quietly. Through false negatives, silent majority-class prediction, and a dashboard that looks reassuring until someone asks the rude question: what exactly did the model miss? ...

December 6, 2025 · 16 min · Zelina