filannim / Temporal-Footprint

Temporal footprint extraction

Temporal-Footprint

Temporal footprint is a Python based piece of software, which predicts the temporal footprint of a concept by analysing the textual content of its encyclopeadiac description.

##Online DEMO

Click here for the online DEMO.

##How to use it (from command line)

Run the temporal_footprint.py script with a Wikipedia URL as parameter.

$ python temporal_footprint.py --help

For example:

$ python temporal_footprint.py http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei --start 1564 --end 1642
Prediction: 1556-1654

How to install it

$ python setup.py install

##Requirements

Python libraries:

• Numpy (web page)
• Matplotlib (web page)
• Scipy (web page)

Non-Python resources:

• HeidelTime (web page)
• wikipedia2text (web page)

please update the temporal_footprint/properties.py file with the right paths.

##Contact

• Email: [e-mail]
• Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~filannim/