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A Chrome extension that highlights academic words on web pages and allows you to learn them in context.

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Key Features

• Automatic Highlight
  • Highlight (in pink) on web pages when they are opened/refreshed
  • Using a academic word list analyzed from '22-24 Nature articles
  • Maximum 40 highlighted words per page
• Hover to show pop-up
• Master
  • Append the highlighted word to mastered list so they won't be highlighted again
  • Mastered words can be toggled on/off
  • Mastered words can be searched by characters
• Learn
  • Open up a new tab with a dictionary definition of the highlighted word
  • Learned words will still be highlighted the next time
• Sync Storage
  • Storage shared accross devices

Database

The academic word list used for highlighting was analyzed from all open-access Nature research articles from 2022 to 2024.

Words are analyzed by frequency, with stepwords, common words and specific field-related words removed.

The "list" consists of the top 570 words from the analysis.

More details about the database: NatureMagazineScraper

How to Use

Simply download al-extension folder and upload it to "my extension" on Chrome extensions page.

Emailware

Feel free to send me an email to share your feedbacks or suggestions.

Credits

This extension uses the following open source libraries.

• jQuery

What's Next

• Customizations
  • Customize highlight color, maximum highlighted words per page etc.
• Gamified Features to Encourage Learning
  • Point system
  • Achivements
  • More attractive UI
• Refine Database
  • Ensure a variety of academic articles are used, not just from Nature
  • Expand academic word list for highlighting

About Me

Hi👋! I'm a high school student in Canada. This is my first independent Github project!

I've put lots of efforts into learning how to code a Chrome extension and creating this project😿

English is my 2nd language. It has been troubling for me to learn English vocabulary, which actually inspired me to develop this project!📚