Comparative-Text-Summariser-API

Introduction

A comparative extractive text summariser implemented in Flask and styled with Bulma CSS. The API will parse text from a webpage and prepare two sets of summaries using the NLTK and Gensim libraries for comparative purposes.

Implementation

Project Structure

|───static/
│   ├── bulma-0.9.0
│      ├── bulma.sass
│      ├── css
│      ├── sass
|───summariser/
│   ├── __init.py__
│   ├── gensim_summariser.py__
│   ├── nltk_summariser.py__
|───templates/
│   ├── base.html__
│   ├── index.html__
│   ├── results.html__
|───app.py
|───requirements.txt

Initialise Repository

1. Download or clone this repository

You can either manually download this repository, or clone it with:

$ git clone https://github.com/erinzhangyj/Comparative-Text-Summariser-API.git
$ cd Comparative-Text-Summariser-API

2. Initialise and activate a virtualenv

$ virtualenv --no-site-packages env
$ source env/bin/activate

3. Install the dependencies

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run app.py in your development environment

$ python app.py

5. Navigate to http://localhost:5000 or http://127.0.0.1:5000/

App Screenshots

1. Home page

2. Results page