UKP-SQUARE: An Online Platform for Question Answering Research

Tim Baumgärtner, Kexin Wang, Rachneet Sachdeva, Gregor Geigle, Max Eichler, Clifton Poth, Hannah Sterz, Haritz Puerto, Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, Jonas Pfeiffer, Nils Reimers, Gözde Şahin, Iryna Gurevych


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
Anthology ID:
2022.acl-demo.2
Volume:
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
Month:
May
Year:
2022
Address:
Dublin, Ireland
Editors:
Valerio Basile, Zornitsa Kozareva, Sanja Stajner
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ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
9–22
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-demo.2
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.acl-demo.2
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Cite (ACL):
Tim Baumgärtner, Kexin Wang, Rachneet Sachdeva, Gregor Geigle, Max Eichler, Clifton Poth, Hannah Sterz, Haritz Puerto, Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, Jonas Pfeiffer, Nils Reimers, Gözde Şahin, and Iryna Gurevych. 2022. UKP-SQUARE: An Online Platform for Question Answering Research. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 9–22, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
UKP-SQUARE: An Online Platform for Question Answering Research (Baumgärtner et al., ACL 2022)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-demo.2.pdf
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-demo.2.mp4
Code
 ukp-square/square-core
Data
BioASQBoolQMS MARCONatural QuestionsSQuAD