News QA

A news question-answering app powered by Open AI GPT.

The news QA app is live at https://newsq.knightlab.com

Table of Contents

1. About The Project
   • Built With
2. Getting Started
3. Contact

About The Project

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This is a news question-answering app with CNN news articles as references. Currently, the database only includes articles published during January 2022 - March 2022, so questions about news outside of that time period might not be answerable. (CNN news dataset source)

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Built With

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Getting Started

This app has two parts: client (/web) and server (/api)

Here's how to set up if you want to run the repo locally:

Server

• pip install (you may want to create a virtual env with python first)

  cd /api
  pip install -r requirements.txt

• Create a .env file in /api and include your keys for OpenSearch and Open AI

OPEN_AI_KEY = 
OPENSEARCH_URL = 
OPENSEARCH_USERNAME = 
OPENSEARCH_PASSWORD = 

• initialize document store with news article data (you can swap with your own data)

cd /util
python docStoreInit_cnn.py

• start the server

cd ..
flask run

Client

• install packages

  cd /web
  npm i
  

• start the app client

  npm run start
  

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Contact

Cindy - cindyhu2023@u.northwestern.edu

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