Platypus QA

Platypus QA is the question answering service of Platypus. You could see it live at qa.askplatyp.us

Install and run

Platypus QA relies on python 3.5+ and packages available using pip. It also uses other Platypus services. The source code is setup in order to use production version of these services automatically.

To install run:

python3 setup.py install

To run the Platypus QA server on port 8000:

python3 flask_server.py

To build the docker file:

docker build . -t platypus-qa

It creates a docker image named platypus-qa listening on port 8000.

Quick introduction

Platypus QA is built from:

• Natural Language Processing tools available in the nlp package. It provides a common interface (model file) and wrapper for CoreNLP and SyntaxNet.
• A model for representing knowledge defined in database.formula and based on RDF and OWL specifications (database.owl file).
• Wrapper for knowledge base allowing to retrieve entities and relations and execute queries. Currently only Wikidata is supported (database.wikidata file).
• A grammatical analyzer for questions, mainly implemented in analyzer.grammatical_anlyzer.
• request_handler that puts all pieces together.

If you want to use it as a library, the only stable interfaces are the ones directly accessible from the platypus_qa module (and not from submodules and files).