Acastry: An AI-Based System to Strengthen Collaboration Between Academia and Industry

In a dynamic landscape where industry and academia often drift apart, we introduce Acastry - an innovative solution designed to harmonize and enhance the relationship between these realms. It is an ongoing research project that leverages the power of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques and is presented as an interactive system that converges students, educators, and industry experts via a web application. With the help of automatic keyword extraction from tasks' titles and descriptions, the system is meant to facilitate smart recommendations of intelligently aligned industry-specific assignments and tasks for students to equip them with practical experience and requisite skills while also helping industries to identify talented students early on.