Briefly

Briefly is an AI-powered assistant for Wikipedia articles, designed to help users quickly find, summarize, and understand topics in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science. It functions as a search engine that retrieves Wikipedia articles, displays full content, provides AI-generated summaries, and enables a Q&A chatbot for further exploration.

About the Project

This project is developed as part of the Introduction to Information Retrieval course term project (VNUHCM, APCS22).

🔗 Live Demo: Briefly

🔗 Video Demo: Video

Features

• Search Wikipedia: Find articles on Math, Physics, and Computer Science.
• Full Article View: Display the entire Wikipedia article with formatting.
• Summarization: AI-generated concise summaries of articles.
• Q&A Chatbot: Ask questions about the article with an AI assistant.
• Fast Search Indexing: Powered by Elasticsearch for efficient search results.

Tech Stack

Frontend

• Next.js (React-based framework)
• Deployed on Vercel

Backend

• Django (Django REST Framework for API)
• Deployed on Render.com (Free tier—may take up to 1 minute to load)

Database & Search

• PostgreSQL (Hosted on Supabase)
• Elasticsearch (Hosted on Bonsai.io)

AI Services

• Gemini API for article summarization and Q&A chatbot

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