I will call it Janus AI: Smart Paraphrasing Solution (According to Roman mythology, Janus is the god of change and transitions, and the idea of paraphrasing is to “change” the expression of some text for better clarity). Let’s start by giving the extension a name.

Bird’s-eye view of how the extension works In case you face such issues, please refer to the repository for the exact directory structure and code that goes into each file. Although GitHub gists are used as code snippets throughout this article, if copied directly, they may not work as intended. Tl dr: This repository contains all the code mentioned in this article. Such an extension might come in handy for numerous purposes, including rewriting a block of sentences in an article, post, or email. I use the PEGASUS transformer model from HuggingFace for paraphrasing, along with the KeyBERT model for keyword extraction, and WordNet to find synonyms.

I show this with an extension I’ve created to be an AI-powered text paraphraser and synonym finder for keywords in text. In this article, I present a detailed overview of how to get started creating your very own Edge extensions that leverage state-of-the-art NLP techniques.

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