CleverChuk Search Engine

A simple and extensible search engine backend built while taking CIS-536 at UMICH. This library has a main.py file that you can execute following the HOW-TO below.

How To Run

• get dataset from here
• ensure you have python 3.10+ installed.
• execute pip install -r requirements.txt to get the required dependencies.
• execute python indexing.py to create the inverted index. This will take ~15 minutes so go do other stuff.
  • nltk might ask you to download some stuff for the stemmer so just follow the instructions.
• execute python main.py to interact with the gui and enter queries.