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 # WILPS 2020 Project: Related Items
 
-This repository acts as the entrypoint for the Related Items project. It contains information for the overall project architecture
-as well as links to the different parts and respositories which are part of the Related Items project.
+This repository acts as the entrypoint for the Related Items project. 
+It contains information for the overall project architecture
+as well as links to the different parts and respositories 
+which are part of the Related Items project.
 
 Authors: Fabian Rausch and Felix Welter  
 (fabian.rausch@studium.uni-hamburg.de and felix.welter@studium.uni-hamburg.de)
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 # Context
 
-What is this project actually about
+This project was developed during the Master Project "Web Interfaces for Language Processing Systems" and was supervised
+by Prof. Dr. Chris Biemann and Dr. Seid Muhie Yimam. In light of the Corona pandemic 2020 the project aims at improving the online conferencing software bigbluebutton. The Related Items project enables users to transcribe speech
+and lookup related items (e.g. lecture slides or a wikipedia article) via an easy to use interface.
 
 # Software architecture
 The following image visualizes the software architecture.