Team Name: El Salkaweya

Team Member with UMN Emails:

● Ahmad Yasser (hassa940@umn.edu)

● Malak Raafat (raafa002@umn.edu)

● Yassin Ali (ali00740@umn.edu)

● Weiwen Chen (chen6704@umn.edu)

Current Progress:
1. We created two ER Diagrams:
a. First: It is a normalized version of every table found in the csv files where
there is additional information that may not be useful in developing our
Movie Search Engine
b. Second: It is a simpler version of the First version where only the necessary
attributes are found in the tables with much simpler relations among the
tables.
2. The Movies Dataset csv files are successfully imported into MySQL Server using
multiple Python Scripts.
3. We implemented the database schema for the First ER Diagram, and after that,
we manipulated the schema to correspond to the Second ER Diagram which, as
mentioned, will help in the computation of the user’s queries as there will be much
fewer joins among the tables
4. We developed a simple interface that is still yet to be connected to the database,
so basically, only the frontend has been developed.
5. Data is cleaned and ready to be used.

Current Blocking Issues:

● We wanted to add a textbox where the user can write what he/she remembers
from the movie, and we could map what was written to the “overview” attribute via
NLP techniques/algorithms. However, we may not have enough time to do so, but
we’ll try our best to do something about whether to use NLP or simple pattern
matching.

Outlines of the Report and Presentation are attached to this submission.

Preliminary results:

First ERD
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Second ERD

Initial interface design