Electify is an interactive app designed to empower voters with clear, concise summaries of political party positions for the 2024 European Elections. We use Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to extract relevant information from party manifestos and debates, providing users with an overview of each party's position on any given topic. Find background information on our organization page.
- Retrieve relevant information from party manifestos and debates
- Summarize parties' political positions based on user query
- Hide party names to prevent bias
- Show all retrieved sources for transparency
You can watch a walkthrough video or try the app yourself at electify.eu, where it will be deployed until the European Elections in June 2024. We welcome your feedback.
To set up Electify locally, follow the steps below:
Download database from google drive. You can also recreate the database using RAG/scripts/create_databases.ipynb, but it is very time-consuming. Copy the databases into the data folder.
git clone https://github.com/europarl-ai/europarl-ai.git
cd europarl-ai
Choose one of the following options to set up the environment:
Create .env file in the repository's root directory containing your OpenAI API key:
OPENAI_API_KEY=<value>
Run the following commands to build and run the Docker container:
docker build -t electify .
docker run -p 8080:8080 --env-file .env electify
Navigate to http://localhost:8080 in your browser to access the app.
Create an environment with Python 3.11, for example with conda:
conda create -n electify python=3.11
conda activate electify
Install required packages:
pip install -r requirements.txt
Run the Streamlit app:
streamlit run App.py