README.md

Semantic search engine

This project aims to create a search engine that generates a list of the top k movies from a database based on a given description using BERT transformer. Additionally, it allows the inclusion of other parameters such as genre and release year to further refine the search criteria. The output of the search engine provides the titles of the movies that match the given description and additional parameters.

The dataset that has been used is: Wikipedia Movie Plots

Run the code

Use these commands to install the dependencies on a virtual environment.

python3 -m venv eden_env

On the new environment install :

pip3 install torch --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu

pip3 install -r requirements_linux.txt

Run this command to launch the API :

uvicorn main:app

Testing

Run the file test.py to try the API. You can find the requests format in the json file.

Example

Simulating the solution :