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This program aims to auto-highlight potentially difficult vocabulary from a piece of article/news, based on the English level.

Setup Flask App

1. Go to http://download.huzheng.org/zh_CN/, download the lazyworm-ec dictionary into the backend folder.
2. Unzip the lazyworm-ec.dict.dz to a file called lazyword-ec.
3. On the first run, run scripts/init_dict.py, it should generate lazy_dict_idx.json.

Running it

First export your environment setting in terminal

export YOURAPPLICATION_SETTINGS=[dev|prod].settings.cfg

Local development:

cd backend && python3 app.py

EC2 instance:

cd backend && gunicorn --bind 127.0.0.1:5000 wsgi:app

Notes:

new way to install scipy language pipeline: python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm==2.2.5