Inspiration
Simple Wikipedia is a wonderful attempt to simplify complex topics, only limited by the speed at which conversion can be performed.
What it does
Sibyl has the potential to reduce or negate the time necessary to write up Simple Wikipedia pages by converting their Wikipedia counterparts into simple language.
How we built it
We used Java and the jsoup library to build Sibyl.
Challenges we ran into
We had to learn how to parse HTML with jsoup, and we had to figure out how to parse the definitions, wikipedia articles, and synonyms we were given into readable English when inserted into the text.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We have a working terminal-environment file converter and lookup.
What we learned
This sort of project may have to rely on machine learning to smoothly integrate the language.
What's next for Sibyl - The Wikipedia Simplifier
By integrating Sibyl with tools like GPT-2 or Word2Vec, we may be able to improve our direct English transliteration.
