Father and Sons

Project for Information Retrieval A.A. 2020/21
Sebastiano Caccaro

Exectution

In order to run the project the following dependencies need to be satisfied:

• Python 3.6 or greater

The following python modules need to be installed:

• sklearn
• tqdm
• pyspellchecker
• nltk
• python-Levenshtein
• pandas
• matplotlib

Note that the execution script will install the missing modules if they are not already installed.
Before executing the project you must check which command your system uses to run python and pip:

• If the commands are python3 and pip3 you will need to run execute3.bash
• If the commands are python and pip you will need to run execute.bash

Note that you will also need to place the parliamentary debates as indicated in the Code/Debates folder as indicated in the Code/Debates/placeholder.txt file.

Instruction are reported for execute.bash but they are identical for execute3.bash.
To execute the project:

• cd into the Code folder
• make execute.bash executable
• run it in the shell with ./execute.bash
• find something interesting to do while the project runs
• she program will output the location of the final plotted results

Note that that text correction of the project are disabled for time reason, as the project will take to much times (days) to run.

Structure

The project is structured as follows:

• The code folder holds the code and the execution script for the project
• The Report folder contains:
  • The report itself
  • The file table.png: the final table with results that can obtained by executing the project
  • The file table_correction.png: the final table that is computed with text_correction enabled
  • The file short.json: which contains the full party names associated with their short form reported in the table.