Ask, and You Shall Receive: Building a question-answering system with Bert

Author(s): Lan Chu

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QA is the task of extracting the answer from a given document. It needs the context, which is the document you want to search in and the question you want to ask, and it will return an answer to the given question.

QA task comes in many flavors such as extractive, open generative, and close generative, but the one we will focus on in this post is extractive question answering. This involves asking questions about a document and Bert identifying the answers as spans of text in the… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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