README.md

Required Packages:

C:

libxml2, libsxlt

Python:

django, lxml, newspaper, textblob, pytz, MySQL-python, dateutil, scipy, numpy, scikit-learn

Collect data from Google news and Twitter search API

demoBasic/DataCollector/main.py

Note:

1. Requires keys to access Twitter search API

2. Requires a running DBpedia Spotlight server at localhost

Dump data to mysql

demoBasic/DataCollector/DB.py

Core modules in web application

Event hierarchy construction Code

function pLSABet in tweenews/overviews/lib/pLSABet.py

Linking and summarization

function summarization in tweenews/overviews/lib/summarization.py

Django entry point

function event_running in tweenews/overviews/views/event_view.py

Start web application

Run server:

python tweenews/overviews/manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:XXXX

Open webpage at localhost:

http://localhost:XXXX/overviews/event_discovery/