Information Retrieval

Requirements

To run this project you need to have installed:

• Python 3.5
• Python pip
• Java 7+ - Just for Elasticsearch to run
• Elasticsearch

Installing Elasticsearch

To install this search engine, download it from the official site and unzip it to this project root folder.

Installing Python dependencies

After installing pip, run on terminal

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

remember that you need to be root or run as sudo

Running

Before running this program, we have to start elasticsearch. If the elasticsearch folder is in the project root folder, you can do that just doing

$ ./start.sh

if not, go to elasticsearch root folder and run ./elasticsearch from elasticsearch-version/bin

After elasticsearch is running, open another terminal window and type ./index.sh to run the project This will read all files from WT10G/sample folder and index them to foo index in elasticsearch running on your machine