EC + Reee! Searcher

Start the bot
Summarise an article
Get definitions of a word
Get the APA/MLA citation for a website
Cross reference multiple articles

Inspiration

Reading long articles are a hassle; they are boring, and most of the information is actually unnecessary. This can make researching or just reading the news painstakingly long and off-putting. Even worse, referencing while strictly adhering to the MLA or the APA referencing style can also be a thorn in your side.

What it does

Our telegram bot has 3 main functions

Summarise
Cross Reference
Reference Generator

Our telegram bot summarises any article or text significantly, ensuring a no-frills reading experience. references**. In case you do not know the meaning of a word in the article, you can ask the bot to define it for you.

You can also cross-reference multiple articles and see how relevant/similar they are to one another.

Additionally, it converts the URLs into MLA/APA references that you can slot right into your paper or report. All this to make sure that you can put your energy into things that really matter.

How I built it

The telegram bot was built using Python. Various libraries such as nltk and gensim were also utilized. Pycharm was the IDE of choice.

Challenges I ran into

Working around the character and flooding limits in Telegram
Cross-reference function very difficult to implement
Various overflow errors
Server-side issues
Choosing an appropriate threshold in cross-referencing

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Successfully deployed a Telegram bot that was able to fetch the contents of web pages and provide a summary that was around 20 percent of the original length
Successfully implemented functions to generate the MLA and APA references for a list of URLs
Successfully implemented a function to cross-reference across multiple URLs
Successfully implemented a define word function