Langchain 101: Extract structured data (JSON)
Last Updated on August 9, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Dr. Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD.
Originally published on Towards AI.
A practical example of controlling output format as JSON using Langchain
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In this tutorial, we will learn how to extract structured data from free text. Let's get some data.
# Get some text https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03279 abstractinp = """Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable \generalizability, such as understanding arbitrary entities and relations. \Instruction tuning has proven effective for distilling LLMs \into more cost-efficient models such as Alpaca and Vicuna. \Yet such… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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