Open Domain Question Answering Skill on Wikipedia

Task definition

Open Domain Question Answering (ODQA) is a task to find an exact answer to any question in Wikipedia articles. Thus, given only a question, the system outputs the best answer it can find. The default ODQA implementation takes a batch of queries as input and returns the best answer.

Quick Start

The example below is given for basic ODQA config en_odqa_infer_wiki. Check what other ODQA configs are available and simply replace en_odqa_infer_wiki with the config name of your preference.

Before using the model make sure that all required packages are installed running the command:

python -m deeppavlov install en_odqa_infer_wiki

Training (if you have your own data)

from deeppavlov import configs, train_evaluate_model_from_config

train_evaluate_model_from_config(configs.doc_retrieval.en_ranker_tfidf_wiki, download=True)
train_evaluate_model_from_config(configs.squad.multi_squad_noans, download=True)

Building

from deeppavlov import build_model, configs

odqa = build_model(configs.odqa.en_odqa_infer_wiki, download=True)

Inference

result = odqa(['What is the name of Darth Vader\'s son?'])
print(result)

Output:

>> Luke Skywalker

Languages

There are pretrained ODQA models for English and Russian languages in DeepPavlov.

Models

The architecture of ODQA skill is modular and consists of two models, a ranker and a reader. The ranker is based on DrQA 1 proposed by Facebook Research and the reader is based on R-NET 2 proposed by Microsoft Research Asia and its implementation 3 by Wenxuan Zhou.

Running ODQA

Note

About 24 GB of RAM required. It is possible to run on a 16 GB machine, but than swap size should be at least 8 GB.

Training

ODQA ranker and ODQA reader should be trained separately. Read about training the ranker here. Read about training the reader in our separate reader tutorial.

Interacting

When interacting, the ODQA skill returns a plain answer to the user’s question.

Run the following to interact with English ODQA:

python -m deeppavlov interact en_odqa_infer_wiki -d

Run the following to interact with Russian ODQA:

python -m deeppavlov interact ru_odqa_infer_wiki -d

Configuration

The ODQA configs suit only model inferring purposes. For training purposes use the ranker configs and the reader configs accordingly.

There are several ODQA configs available:

Config

Description

en_odqa_infer_wiki

Basic config for English language. Consists of TF-IDF ranker and reader. Searches for an answer in enwiki20180211 Wikipedia dump.

en_odqa_infer_enwiki20161221

Basic config for English language. Consists of TF-IDF ranker and reader. Searches for an answer in enwiki20161221 Wikipedia dump.

ru_odqa_infer_wiki

Basic config for Russian language. Consists of TF-IDF ranker and reader. Searches for an answer in ruwiki20180401 Wikipedia dump.

en_odqa_pop_infer_enwiki20180211

Extended config for English language. Consists of TF-IDF Ranker, Popularity Ranker and reader. Searches for an answer in enwiki20180211 Wikipedia dump.

Comparison

Scores for ODQA skill:

Model

Lang

Dataset

WikiDump

Ranker@5

Ranker@25

F1

EM

F1

EM

DeppPavlov

En

SQuAD (dev)

enwiki20180211

35.89

29.21

39.96

32.64

DeepPavlov

enwiki20161221

37.83

31.26

41.86

34.73

DrQA 1

-

27.1

-

-

R3 4

37.5

29.1

-

-

DeepPavlov with RuBERT reader

Ru

SDSJ Task B (dev)

ruwiki20180401

42.02

29.56

-

-

DeepPavlov

28.56

18.17

-

-

EM stands for “exact-match accuracy”. Metrics are counted for top 5 and top 25 documents returned by retrieval module.