News Chatbot

Overview

This app is a news chatbot that presents relevant news to the query.

Requirements

• Python 3.10
• All required libraries and frameworks can be found in requirements.txt.

Installation

Clone the repository to your local machine using git clone https://github.com/RochanVanam/news_chatbot.git.

Usage

1. Open terminal/command prompt/CLI, navigate to directory of choice
2. Clone repository
3. Create and activate virtual environment in Python 3.10 (optional but recommended)
4. Install libraries using pip install -r requirements.txt
5. Run app.py using python app.py
6. Open browser and go to the web address printed in CLI
7. Enter query. It might take a minute to get a response.

CNN

In other_versions/, there is a program called cnn.py that scrapes CNN instead of CNBC.

1. To scrape CNN, move cnn.py into the main project directory.
2. Go to app.py and edit the import statement at the top from from main import Chatbot, get_progress to from cnn import Chatbot, get_progress.
3. Do steps 5-7 from above.

Data and Model

This program scrapes CNBC for news data, and uses Google's Pegasus model off HuggingFace to synthesize an output. Additionally, in other_versions/, there is a program that scrapes CNN instead of CNBC.

• CNBC
• Google Pegasus
• CNN

Thank you!

Rochan V:

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