Paralex Open IE Demo
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Goals
Showcase Paralex open-domain question answering in the Open IE Demo.
Demos
- Paralex-OpenIE Demo (Updated Nov 8)
- Paralex QA Research Demo (Updated Oct 16)
- Paralex Paraphraser Demo (Updated Oct 16)
Work Log
Nov 8
- Added "more" dropdown UI element for paraphrase accordion
- Changed answer ranking to by-paraphrase-score, then by result count.
- Sent demo to Oren for feedback. Feedback:
- Make paraphrases in paraphrase UI clickable for paraphrase-specific answers.
- Report number of sources used to derive answer
- Begin work on advanced search options UI.
Nov 6
- Added sentence-level "read more" accordion
- Fixed text-wrapping of answer titles
- Improved pagination bar layout.
Nov 4
- Improved caching of executed queries
- Fixed grouping of questions w/ same query interpretation
- Added mechanism to display when multiple paraphrases had same interpretation
- Enforced consistent ordering between "interpretation" and evidence sections.
- Paraphrase set no longer changes w/ pagination
- Various instance-of queries are now collapsed together.
Oct 25
- Improved results UI to highlight paraphrase info and display system reasoning from question to extracted relations.
- Discussed w/ Stephen, feedback:
- Add a paraphrase section at top of page to highlight top paraphrases, w/ accordion to display all paraphrases.
- Add accordion effect to results section, display top paraphrase's results by default, collapse rest.
- Add a "query interpretation" under each executed paraphrase.
- Save screen area where possible around freebase card.
- Discussed w/ Michael, feedback:
- Reduce lines around paraphrase results section.
- Don't close one accordion section when another is opened.
- Improve display of sentences - at least number them. Maybe center justify and truncate.
- Maybe remove "Extracted Synonyms" section.
- Support "What do we know about X?" questions?
Oct 18
- Upgraded UI toolkit to latest version of Twitter Bootstrap
- Upgraded to most recent development snapshot of Paralex backend.
Oct 17
- Next Steps:
- Shift focus away from research/backend towards demo/UI until a stable demo is available.
- Implement results page UI by 10-23
- Completed:
- Created UI demo mockups and received feedback from Stephen and Oren:
- Chose example query set to satisfy constraints:
- Non-trivial to parse
- Handled well by paralex
- Answerable in the triplestore
- Example queries are:
- Foods from Africa?
- Is there any cure for cancer?
- Are there any famous people from Detroit?
- How fast are cheetahs?
- Sources of Antioxidants?
- Is Obama married and to who?
Oct 9
- Analyzed improved paraphrase template scores from Tony
- Discussed UI layout with Stephen:
- Show list of answers as in current demo.
- Clicking an answer should reveal paraphrases that lead to the answer.
- Clicking a paraphrase should expand to show sentences that contain triples used to derive the answer.
Current Goals:
- Find set of example questions with high-quality paraphrases by Oct 11
- Mockup results UI by Oct 16