nhirakawa / pysearch

A web-based search engine made from my class project

PySearch

• A web-based search engine made from my class project
• Uses query likelihood model to score documents
• Performs no query processing, e.g. stemming, removing stopwords (yet)
• Uses Django for backend, jQuery/Bootstrap in front end
• Inverted index stored in MySQL database, along with full document text
• Collection was given as part of an assignment, pre-stemmed, so searches aren't very informative

To run

• Install Python, Django, and MySQL-python
• Install MySQL
• Load database files using db.sql (must be able to create schemas and tables and truncate tables) Note: database files must be placed in database directory (on my Windows machine this is C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6\data\PySearch)
• Start Django server
• Open a web browser and navigate to localhost:5000/search and start searching