dash1291/major

Concept maps, graphs, search, etc

Setup

Python Environment

The instructions assume that Python (with setuptools) has been installed on the system.

• Install virtualenv using following commands:

pip install virtualenv

curl -s https://raw.github.com/brainsik/virtualenv-burrito/master/virtualenv-burrito.sh | $SHELL

• Create virtual environment

mkvirtualenv conceptual

• Install Python dependencies

pip install flask py2neo

Neo4j Installation

Download version specific to your OS from this website: http://www.neo4j.org/

Extractor Service

The extractor service responsible for relationship extraction is built in Scala and requires scala and maven to be installed for building it from source.

Use the following command inside extractor/conceptual-extractor directory to build the service:

mvn clean compile exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=org.conceptual.extractor.ExtractorService

If OutOfMemory exception is thrown while building set environment variable MAVEN_OPTS=-Xmx2g.

Web Server

• Starting the web server

python api/app.py

major's Issues

Fix flattening of coreference chains

Cleanup scripts

Neo4j purge script is not needed at the moment and is useless and so is the other one

Asynchronous extraction pipeline

Handle extraction task asynchronously without blocking the web/API request.

Remove app.py

Keep around for a while until its not needed anymore then clean it up.