qxiao2ub/African-High-School-Journal-Platform

# African High School Journal Platform A Streamlit MVP for an AI-supported high-school research journal platform founded by Kavya. The platform is designed to help African high school students upload manuscripts, write drafts online, receive AI-assisted plagiarism checks, match submissions to teachers/professors with relevant expertise, collect peer-review recommendations, and publish accepted electronic papers in an online library. This repository is intentionally built with a free/low-cost stack: - Python 3.12+ recommended for Streamlit Community Cloud; Python 3.14 works locally if your dependencies support it. - Streamlit for the web interface. - SQLite for an MVP database. - scikit-learn TF-IDF similarity for local AI-style matching and plagiarism similarity. - pypdf and python-docx for PDF/DOCX text extraction. > Important: This MVP does not search the whole internet for plagiarism. It compares a manuscript to the platform's local corpus: published manuscripts, submitted manuscripts, and the optional sample/source corpus. For production-level internet plagiarism checks, integrate a licensed plagiarism/search API and add an appeals process. ## Main functions 1. **Student upload and online writing** - Students can upload TXT, Markdown, PDF, or DOCX files. - Students can also draft directly in the browser and save the manuscript online. 2. **AI-based plagiarism detection** - Uses local TF-IDF cosine similarity to compare the submission with the platform corpus. - Shows matched source titles and similarity scores. - Flags high similarity so students can revise before final submission. 3. **AI-based reviewer matching** - Matches manuscripts to reviewers based on field, keywords, abstract, manuscript text, and reviewer expertise. - Creates reviewer assignments with shareable invite links. 4. **Reviewer portal** - Reviewers can view assigned manuscripts and submit recommendations: accept, minor revision, major revision, or reject. - Review comments are stored …