README.md

HateFlow backend

HateFlow can detect and classify inappropriate comments. It is available using an API documented here.

Installation

(tested on Ubuntu 20.04 and Python 3.8)

cd hateflow
pip3 install -r requirements.txt  --no-cache-dir

Training a model

python3 train.py

Evaluating the current model

python3 get_accuracy.py

Hosting the API

This section assumes an installation at /var/hateflow.

sudo mkdir /var/www/nltk_data
sudo mkdir /var/www/gensim-data
sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/*data

Apache has to be set up according to the system specific requirements.

Apache configuration file

<VirtualHost *:80>
                ServerName example.org
                ServerAdmin [email protected]

                WSGIDaemonProcess hateflow user=www-data group=www-data threads=5 home=/var/hateflow/
                WSGIScriptAlias / /var/hateflow/main.wsgi

                <Directory /var/hateflow/>
                        WSGIProcessGroup hateflow
                        WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
                        Require all granted
                </Directory>

                ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
                LogLevel warn
                CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>