Connection Suggestions on Element Contribution

[fbaig]

In addition to manual connections on elements contribution page, the system should suggest potential connections to the user. A very basic workflow of the suggestion mechanism can be implemented as follows

First/Basic Version (Proof of Concept)

• On new contribution page, user adds title and abstract
• Call /api/search endpoint with title and/or abstract
• Take first 5 elements returned from the endpoint call and show them to the user as potential connections
• The call to the endpoint can either be assigned to a button or done automatically when user focuses on the related elements section
• The user can select to either accept the suggested element and create connection (i.e. add it as related element) or reject and ignore the suggested element

Possible Improvements

• Instead of passing the whole text from abstract as-it-is, filter out stop words, and extract keywords before calling the endpoint
• Call advanced search (LLM-based) endpoint to get suggestions for related elements