BBC Radio Programs Retriever

CSC 575 - Intelligent Information Retrieval

Nardos Tessema

Modules

1. commons
2. crawler
3. documents
4. preprocessor
5. query-processor
6. indexer
7. spring-boot-ui

Environment Variable Needed

CORPORA_DIR

This environment variable is the directory in which the corpora are saved.

Setting the Environment Variable

Run in a directory that is the same level as corpora

Windows: C:>SET CORPORA_DIR=corpora\

Mac OSX/Linux: $export CORPORA_DIR=corpora/

Packaging

Go to the project home and run $mvn clean package

JAR Files Produced

├── commons-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
├── crawler-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar
├── crawler-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
├── documents-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
├── indexer-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
├── preprocessor-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
├── query-processor-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
├── spring-boot-ui-1.0.jar

Running the Crawler

• The CORPORA_DIR environment variable must be set.
• The directory $CORPORA_DIR/bbc must exist.

$java -jar crawler-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar

Running the Main Application

• The CORPORA_DIR environment variable must be set.
• The bbc corpus documents must be in $CORPORA_DIR/bbc
• Port 8282 must be free.

$java -jar spring-boot-ui-1.0.jar

Using the Application

Using a web browser such as Chrome, browse to

http://localhost:8282