Research Oasis

Introduction

Our project is a search platform for research papers, allowing the user to filter the papers by desired subject and further by a ranked, individually-parsed, regex-based search. It is based on an expandable database of 100 papers that can link back to access to original copies of the included papers through use of the arXiv database.

Project decision

The planning phase of the project took longer than expected, for a few reasons:

• Many instances of popular project ideas already existed
• Our greatest skills lay in web development - this gave us the decision of whether to make an electron app or website
• Attempts to use AI-based tooling encountered unexpected errors

We wanted to come up with an idea that was original, so we didn't want to do a project that already existed. This ruled out some of our original ideas, such as a scholarship research engine or an AI-based college application counselor. Attempts to use AI-based tools such as the OpenAI API and Gemini API also ran into token and rate errors, which ruled out ideas for ideas that would incorporate AI-based advisors. In the end, we chose a research paper search engine which would provide a unique level of search and capitalize on our website-centered abilities.

Built With

• css
• html5
• javascript
• json
• vs-code