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ZODB should be installed for version python 2.4 for this program to run
ZODB is available at www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB



To Index the newsgroup items in say folder 20newsGroup

run 'python Indexer.py True 20newsGroup'




To search a query on the index 

run 'python Search.py "<query>" '





To compute the top <n> words

run 'python computeStatistics.py <n>




Optional Global parameters in Globals.py

1. doStopListCheck - True/False
   Instructs indexer if the stopWordsList is to be used or not

2. doStemming - True/False
   Instructs indexer if stemming should be performed

3. generateDocumentVectors - True/False
   If Vector based ranking is required or not

4. doClustering - True/False
   If Clustering should be performed at the end or not

5. noRankedDocs - integer
   Number of documents to be returned after vector retrieval. This would also be the number of documents that will be clustered

6. clusterCount - integer
   Number of clusters to start with in the k-means algorithm

7. doBlindRelevanceFeedback - True/False
   If BlindRelevanceFeedback should be used and the query regenerated