INFO 624 – Final Project - Group 4

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Project Type: Search Engine

Title: News seacrh engine

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Student(s)

• Nupur Roy Chowdhury, [email protected]

• Mahesh Sercat Ramakumar, [email protected]

• Rohith Lakshminarayana, [email protected]

• Manisha Uttam Nandawadekar, [email protected]

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Structure of the Project Folder:

Information_retrieval 1. Documents a. Group4_nr572_rl669_mun24_ms4976.md file b. Group4_nr572_rl669_mun24_ms4976.pdf file c. Group4_nr572_rl669_mun24_ms4976_Presentation d. INFO 624 – Final Project Documentation - Group4_nr572_rl669_mun24_ms4976 2. Jupyter notebooks a. Data Collection and indexing b. Custom Similarites Comparision c. Evaluation 3. Flask application a. templates a.1 results.html b.1 search.html b. app.py 4. README.md

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Documents:

This folder contains the list of all the documents created for our project.

1. Abstract - contains both md and pdf file.

2. The presentation of our project.

3. The final project report.

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Jupyter Notebooks:

This folder consists of all the Jupyter Notebooks which we have used for our project.

1. Data Collection and indexing

2. Custom Similarites Comparision

3. Evaluation

4. JSON dump

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Flask Application:

This folder consists of the below:

1. Templates - This holds the html pages which we have created for our search engine.

2. app.py - python file which has the flask python code to run the search engine.

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Steps to run the search engine:

1. Go to the folder location where we have this file stored. (example) C:\Users\nupur_nsxs2zt\Documents\Information Retrival systems\Project\Group4_nr572_rl669_mun24_ms4976\project IR\Information_retrieval (2)\Information_retrieval>

2. Open the app.py python file.

3. pip install elasticsearch

4. pip install flask

5. pip install request

6. python app.py - when we excute this command, it will be giving the 'URL': * Running on http://localhost:8000/. When we click on this 'URL' it will take us to the search engine which is hosted on this url.