This is an implementation of the baselines reported in the paper A Dataset of Information-Seeking Questions and Answers Anchored in Research Papers by Dasigi et al., published at NAACL 2021.

• Download data from here.

• Install requirements as follows:

pip install -r requirements.txt

The configuration file to use is training_config/led_base_with_evidence_scaffold.jsonnet. Remember to set the data paths before training.

allennlp train training_config/led_base_with_evidence_scaffold.jsonnet -s <PATH TO SERIALIZATION DIRECTORY> --include-package qasper_baselines

At the end of training, you will see results on the development set. best_validation_answer_f1 and best_validation_evidence_f1 should give you the Answer F1 and Evidence F1 reported in the paper.

If you do not have a GPU, you will need to set cuda_device to -1.

Just set use_evidence_scaffold in the model section of the configuration to false.

The paper also reports results of training and evaluating models given contexts shorter than the full text of the paper. Use the configuration file training_config/led_base_smaller_context.jsonnet for these experiments, and set the context field in the dataset_reader and validation_dataset_reader sections of the configuration to appropriate values.

The script scripts/evidence_retrieval_heuristic_baselines.py contains these baselines. Just run

python scripts/evidence_retrieval_heuristic_baselines.py <PATH TO DEV DATA>

You will need to install sklearn for this script.

Feel free to open pull requests if find any thing that needs fixing.

You can run these by changing the value of transformer_model variable to allenai/led-large-16384. Note that as stated in the paper, the answer_f1 value will be very low (less than 20 F1 points).