paper-finding

A Claude Code skill for finding academic papers via DBLP with CCF ranking filtering, IEEE reference generation, and automatic save to .md + .bib.

Features

• DBLP search with CCF-A/B filtering for Software Engineering and AI venues
• IEEE-format references auto-generated
• Automatic save to .md (literature review) and .bib (BibTeX)
• Polite rate-limiting — 1.5s delay between DBLP requests to avoid 429 errors

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Natural Language Examples

Use the skill whenever you want to find papers. Describe what you need in plain language.

Example 1 — CCF-A SE, 3 years

Input:

find papers about LLM for software testing, only CCF-A venues in recent 3 years

Output saved to:

~/literature-review-llm-for-software-testing.md    # .md with IEEE refs + BibTeX block
~/literature-review-llm-for-software-testing.bib    # .bib for reference managers

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Example 2 — CCF-A + CCF-B SE, 5 years

Input:

search for papers on requirements validation, CCF-A and CCF-B in software engineering, last 5 years

Output saved to:

~/literature-review-requirements-validation.md
~/literature-review-requirements-validation.bib

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Example 3 — Broad CCF-A AI+SE

Input:

find papers about AI for requirements engineering, save as md and bibtex

Output saved to:

~/literature-review-ai-for-requirements-engineering.md
~/literature-review-ai-for-requirements-engineering.bib

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Example 4 — Specific year range

Input:

literature review on model-based testing, CCF-A software engineering, 2020-2025

Output saved to:

~/literature-review-model-based-testing.md
~/literature-review-model-based-testing.bib

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What the skill does automatically

1. Infers:  topic, CCF category (SE/AI/ALL), rank (A/B/ALL), year range
2. Searches:  DBLP API with correct CCF venue filtering
3. Saves:     TOPIC.md  +  TOPIC.bib  to ~/ (home directory)

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Command Line

# All-in-one: search + filter + BibTeX + save
python3 scripts/generate_report.py "requirements validation" \
    --ccf ALL --rank A --years 2021-2025 \
    --output ~ --basename req-validation

# Search only (JSON output)
python3 scripts/search_dblp.py "LLM requirements engineering" \
    --ccf SE --rank A --years 2023-2025 --json

# Fetch BibTeX for known DBLP keys
python3 scripts/fetch_bibtex.py conf/icse/Pan024 conf/icse/ChangGY23 \
    --output ~/refs.bib

Options

Flag	Description	Default
--ccf SE|AI|ALL	Filter by CCF category	ALL
--rank A|B|ALL	Filter by CCF rank	ALL
--years YYYY-YYYY	Year range	Last 5 years
--hits N	Max DBLP hits per query	100
--output DIR	Output directory	Current dir
--basename NAME	Base filename (no extension)	Auto-generated

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Output Files

Two files are saved side-by-side:

• NAME.md — Literature review containing:

  • Papers grouped by CCF rank (CCF-A SE → CCF-B SE → CCF-A AI → CCF-B AI)
  • IEEE-format references
  • Embedded BibTeX block
  • DBLP links for each paper

• NAME.bib — Raw BibTeX file for LaTeX / reference managers

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CCF Venue Coverage

Software Engineering / System Software / Programming Languages

CCF-A: ICSE, FSE, ASE, ISSTA, PLDI, POPL, SOSP, OOPSLA, OSDI, FM / TOPLAS, TOSEM, TSE, TSC

CCF-B: RE, CAiSE, ECOOP, ETAPS, ICPC, ICFP, LCTES, MoDELS, CP, ICSOC, SANER, ICSME, VMCAI, ICWS, Middleware, SAS, ESEM, ISSRE, HotOS / ASE, ESE, IET Software, IST, JFP, JSEP, JSS, Requirements Engineering, SCP, SoSyM, STVR, SPE

Artificial Intelligence

CCF-A: AAAI, NeurIPS, ACL, CVPR, ICCV, ICML, IJCAI, ECCV / AI, TPAMI, IJCV, JMLR

CCF-B: EMNLP, ECAI, ICRA, ICAPS, ICCBR, COLING, KR, UAI, AAMAS, PPSN, NAACL, COLT / TAP, CL, CVIU, DKE, EC, TAC, TASLP, TCYB, TEC, TFS, TNNLS, IJAR, JAIR, JAR, JSLHR, ML, NC, NN, PR, TACL

See references/ccf_venues.md for the complete list.

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Requirements

• Python 3
• curl (for DBLP API calls)
• No external Python dependencies — uses only stdlib

License

MIT