create virtual environment

conda create -n claim_similarity python=3.6

activate it

activate claim_similarity

install following packages

conda install gensim conda install pandas conda install nltk conda install flask conda install flask-wtf conda install boto3 conda install pyemd

set variable to specify flask app that needs to be run

export FLASK_APP=claim_similarity.py or on Windows set FLASK_APP=claim_similarity.py

run the application

flask run

Datasets are available from

https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/electronic-data-products/patent-claims-research-dataset https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7XkCwpI5KDYNlNUTTlSS21pQmM/edit?usp=sharing or https://code.google.com/archive/p/word2vec/