Pathway Generator

This repository contains the implementation of the Pathway Generator. It is developed in the context of the H2020 easyRights project and implements state-of-the-art NLP technonoliges to translate verbose and lengthy documents describing processes such as Asylum Seeking into a set of actionable, step-wise, instructions in a format that we call Pathway.

Setup virtual environment

In order to install and use the external libraries used in this repository, we recommend the use of a virtual environment. It can be created using the following command:

python3 -m venv env

You can now activate the virtual environment using the command:

source env/bin/activate

And use deactivate to disable it.

Once your virtual is activated, you can install the external libraries:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Enable doccano client

cd doccano_api_client
pip3 install -e ./
cd ..

Enable the library that is utilized to numerize sentences

cd sentence-transformers
pip3 install -e ./
cd ..

Requirements

Doccano to store the output of the annotations and the pathway generation. Check api/rest.py to insert credentials.

Usage

To use the pathway generator send a POST request with the following command line:

curl -X POST -F data='{"pilot":"birmingham","service":"clean air zone"}' https://easyrights.linksfoundation.com/v0.3/generate