qa-baseline

A simple question answering baseline. It ssings a score to each candidate answer depending on how many times and at which rank the candidate ansers appear in the title and snippet of Bing results.

Installation

The only requirement is py-web-search:

pip install py-web-search

Usage

usage: qa-baseline.py [-h] -q QUESTION -a ANSWERS [ANSWERS ...] [-r RESULTS]
                      [-l LANG]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -q QUESTION, --question QUESTION
                        the question you want to ask
  -a ANSWERS [ANSWERS ...], --answers ANSWERS [ANSWERS ...]
                        the candidate answers
  -r RESULTS, --results RESULTS
                        The number of search engine results to consider
  -l LANG, --lang LANG  The language of the question

Example:

python qa-baseline.py -q "who invented python ?" -a guido carlo -l en -r 30

returns:

guido - probablity: 0.6645  raw score: 0.6835
carlo - probablity: 0.3355  raw score: 0.0000