Information Retrieval System for European Union Legislation

• Project name: Information Retrieval System for European Union Legislation
• Short description: Built on Solr, with a custom frontend, system used to retrieve information from the European Union Legislation, provided by EUR-Lex
• Environment: Browser
• Tools: Python, Solr, HTML/JS/CSS
• Institution: FEUP
• Course: PRI (Information Processing and Retrieval)
• Project grade: 19.2/20.0
• Group members:
  • Diogo Miguel Ferreira Rodrigues (dmfrodrigues2000@gmail.com / diogo.rodrigues@fe.up.pt)
  • João Sousa (up201806613@fe.up.pt)
  • Rafael Soares Ribeiro (up201806330@fe.up.pt)

How to get data

The data file containing the dataset is 3.44GB uncompressed, and even when compressed is ~400MB, which does not fit in moodle file size restrictions. The combined.csv data file is available at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aXdNni0DtbRXS6HDofQAXyDOJcAiB4Ld. You have to download combined.zip, unzip it and move file combined.csv to path solr/data, so that the new file path is solr/data/combined.csv.

Get synonyms

To get synonyms, go to folder solr/synonyms, and run make. This command works under Ubuntu 20.04.

How to run

Change current directory to solr, and run

docker-compose up --build

To kill the container, use

docker-compose down

Solr is available at port 8983 (localhost:8983), the frontend is available at port 8000 (localhost:8000).