The New Satire Times: A Vertical Search Engine for Satirical News Articles

• Setup: Create a virtual environment (Python 3.11.2):

  > <path of your python installation>/python -m venv si650
  > si650\Scripts\activate (Windows) or si650/bin/activate (Mac & others)
  > python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• Download the data files from this folder and place them under data/:
  • processed_articles_dedup_nsfwtags_sarcasm.csv
  • stopwords_updated.txt
  • multiword_expressions.csv
  • relevance_train.csv
  • relevance_test.csv
  • relevance_dev.csv
  • body_embeddings.npy
• Navigate to app/ and run this command to launch the search engine in the browser (http://127.0.0.1:8000/):

  > python -m uvicorn app:app
  

• The default ranker is BM25.
• Check the 'Safe Search' box to filter out explicit results.