UKP-SQUARE: An Online Platform for Question Answering Research
Abstract
Recent advances in NLP and information retrieval have given rise to a diverse set of question answering tasks that are of different formats (e.g., extractive, abstractive), require different model architectures (e.g., generative, discriminative), and setups (e.g., with or without retrieval). Despite having a large number of powerful, specialized QA pipelines (which we refer to as Skills) that consider a single domain, model or setup, there exists no framework where users can easily explore and compare such pipelines and can extend them according to their needs. To address this issue, we present UKP-SQUARE, an extensible online QA platform for researchers which allows users to query and analyze a large collection of modern Skills via a user-friendly web interface and integrated behavioural tests. In addition, QA researchers can develop, manage, and share their custom Skills using our microservices that support a wide range of models (Transformers, Adapters, ONNX), datastores and retrieval techniques (e.g., sparse and dense). UKP-SQUARE is available on https://square.ukp-lab.de.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2203.13693,
title = {UKP-SQUARE: An Online Platform for Question Answering Research},
author = {Tim Baumgärtner and Kexin Wang and Rachneet Sachdeva and Max Eichler and Gregor Geigle and Clifton Poth and Hannah Sterz and Haritz Puerto and Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro and Jonas Pfeiffer and Nils Reimers and Gözde Gül Şahin and Iryna Gurevych},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.13693},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
Accepted at ACL 2022 Demo Track