Sinhala-Lyrics-Search-Engine

This repository contains the Sinhala song lyrics corpus, the web crawler and the search engine built using ElasticSearch.

Getting Started:

To start the search engine, run an elasticsearch instance on port 9200.

Directory Structure

• lyrics crawler: source code for the data scraper
• original data: original data files in unicode format
• processed data: data translated to Sinhala
• queries: ElasticSearch queries

Structure of the data

The corpus was scraped from https://sinhalasongbook.com/. It contains 1094 unique Sinhala songs. Each song has 8 matadata fields as follows.

1. title - Sinhala
2. artist - Sinhala
3. lyricist - Sinhala
4. musicComposer - Sinhala
5. genre - Sinhala
6. views - Number
7. shares - Number
8. lyrics - Sinhala

Metadata fields in English were translated to Sinhala using mtranslate python library.

Main functions of the system

• Search a song by any field
• Faceted search
• Range queries
• Support for synonyms