intuiti0n – find seminal papers in any field

Inspiration

Literature review can be a long process. In order to make it easier, we wanted to build a service that finds the seminal papers in any field of study.

What it does

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What results should look like

It uses an NLP algorithm called Latent Dirichlet Allocation to generate a list of topics given a corpus of the paper abstract and title. It finds a recursive implementation to find papers with the highest numbers of citations, which indicates a higher quality.

How We built it

Using Algorithmia to creates relevant topics to the search paper and queried Google Scholar, which returns a list of relevant papers. We plan to recursively generate topics in order to find more frequently cited papers. After recursing enough times, we will take the most highly-cited papers and display them to the user.

Challenges We ran into

None of us knew anything about server-side programming. We spent a lot of time configuring our server and learning Flask.

Accomplishments that We're proud of

We put together a working product with very little prior experience in web programming.

What We learned

We learned a lot of new technologies, APIs, and improvising on the go.

What's next for intuition

Replace humanity.

Also, fine-tune the algorithm for better accuracy and user experience.

Built With

• alogorithmia
• beautiful-soup
• css3
• flask
• google-scholar
• html5
• python
• scholar.py