Contextual meaning of any web page text

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  Getting the context of the word "dubbed" on a news page.

Inspiration

Hearing that students were confused by the phrase "computer application" since they knew about "applications" to college or joining a club but not this other sense of application.

What it does

Select text on any web page, right click, and select "Get meaning of selected word" and it will display its contextual meaning.

How we built it

I prompted ChatGPT with "I want to make it possible to select a word on a web page in Chrome and then prompt an LLM for its meaning. Any ideas?" And then "The above is the documentation for using an LLM in Chrome. fetchWordMeaning should prompt the LLM with "Respond with a short meaning of the word in the following: " - 30 minutes later I had a working extension without writing a line of code.

Challenges we ran into

Getting a decent interface and improving the heuristics for finding the enclosing sentence.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

How easy it was to create and yet it is useful.

What we learned

Chatbots are helpful in creating Chrome extensions.

What's next for Contextual meaning of any web page text

I don't think it ne4eds more work.

Built With

• chrome
• javascript
• windows