Tool to Extract and Summarize Methodologies of Research Articles for Visually Impaired Researchers

Abstract

With the development of technology, not only the university students but also visually impaired students have also started engaging in higher studies and research. They have started using electronic documents comprehensively for their studies. However, some components of electronic documents are also in a difficult state to be referred as per their complexity. This paper has introduced an application to identify such components and to summarize the research methodology section of Information Technology related research papers including the flow charts and graphs. The requirements of visually impaired students in research were identified and the paper has introduced a system to help these students by summarizing methodologies of a given paper within a very short period of time accurately in the document form and in voice. The methods such as machine learning, Information extraction and natural language processing were mainly applied to bring the solution out. Currently available applications were thoroughly observed and this concept was introduced with several features that are lacking in the existing solutions. The results were observed via visually impaired researches with their consent on the support provided by the output.