Lecturers and students use research papers as references for their projects, such as research, final projects or theses. Obtaining suitable papers is critical for the success of their projects. Nonetheless, finding the correct papers, especially in determining the correct words to paper searching, is challenging. This paper proposes a method that combines FastText and Word Mover's Distance for a recommender system to solve the challenge. FastText and Word Mover's Distance are utilized to gather word embedding and reach semantic similarity, respectively. Data on papers from the