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This is a simple Flask application that takes in user input consisting of a text and a question on that text and produces the answer using a pretrained BERT or DistilBert fine-tuned on the The Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD)

resources:

Huggingface

SQuAD

Installation

Using PIP:

$ python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Running the localhost server:

$ flask run

Notes:

when in development, export the following environmental variable:

$ export FLASK_ENV=development

With this, you don't have to restart the server everytime you update your code.