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-# EDdA Classification
 
+This repository is proposed by **Khaled Chabane**, **Ludovic Moncla** and **Alice Brenon** as part of the GEODE project.
+
+
+# Install dependencies
+
+    pip3 install -r requirements.txt
+
+
+# Get Started
+
+To run the script for preparing data use the following command :
+
+    python tmp_preprocess_data.py 
+
+
+In order to run the classifiers, use the following command :
+
+    python experimentsClassicClassifiers.py <dataset_tsv_file> <content_column_name> <labels_column_name> <min_sample_per_class> <max_sample_per_class>
+
+
+# Acknowledgment
+
+The authors are grateful to the ASLAN project (ANR-10-LABX-0081) of the Université de Lyon, for its financial support within the French program "Investments for the Future" operated by the National Research Agency (ANR).
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