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Add as a favourite source on Google Add DutchNews as a favourite source on Google <\/a><\/p>\n Researchers at TU Delft have found Beatles lyrics and song titles in more than 3,000 titles of scientific articles, according to a new paper<\/a> in the open-access journal PLOS One.<\/p>\n Gabriel Budel and Rob Kooij of TU Delft teamed up with Michiel Tjepkema, co-host of the Dutch Beatles podcast Fab4Cast, to look for the lyrics here, there and everywhere across the scientific disciplines.<\/p>\n They identified 2,237 exact references and 963 examples of creative wordplay in data from the academic database Scopus.<\/p>\n The most used songs were \u201cThe Long and Winding Road\u201d (798 mentions), \u201cWith a Little Help from My Friends\u201d (209) and \u201cHere, There and Everywhere\u201d (129). The most cited paper was \u201cAttention is all you need\u201d, the 2017 paper that introduced the architecture behind ChatGPT \u2013 and a play on \u201cAll You Need Is Love\u201d.<\/p>\n According to Budel, it\u2019s not all too much. \u201cSome of these are genuinely brilliant. \u2018The lung and winding road\u2019 is a paper on long Covid that changes one vowel,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n The undertaking was not a hard day\u2019s night. The team used a large language model to identify the lyrics, but they couldn\u2019t just let it be. \u201cThe three of us then went through every selected title by hand to determine if it really was a Beatles pun,\u201d Budel said.<\/p>\n The group didn\u2019t stop until they got enough. They also found lyrics from Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley, though far fewer than the Beatles.<\/p>\n The researchers weren\u2019t all shook up by their findings. Pop culture references can help reach a wider audience and improve readability, they said.<\/p>\n Research<\/a> Science<\/a> Uncategorized<\/a> Thank you for donating to DutchNews.nl.<\/p>\n We could not provide the Dutch News service, and keep it free of charge, without the generous support of our readers. Your donations allow us to report on issues you tell us matter, and provide you with a summary of the most important Dutch news each day.<\/p>\n