---
language: de
datasets:
- deepset/germanquad
license: mit
thumbnail: https://thumb.tildacdn.com/tild3433-3637-4830-a533-353833613061/-/resize/720x/-/format/webp/germanquad.jpg
tags:
- exbert
---
# gelectra-large for Extractive QA
## Overview
**Language model:** gelectra-large-germanquad
**Language:** German
**Training data:** GermanQuAD train set (~ 12MB)
**Eval data:** GermanQuAD test set (~ 5MB)
**Code:** See [an example extractive QA pipeline built with Haystack](https://haystack.deepset.ai/tutorials/34_extractive_qa_pipeline)
**Infrastructure**: 1x V100 GPU
**Published**: Apr 21st, 2021
## Details
- We trained a German question answering model with a gelectra-large model as its basis.
- The dataset is GermanQuAD, a new, German language dataset, which we hand-annotated and published [online](https://deepset.ai/germanquad).
- The training dataset is one-way annotated and contains 11518 questions and 11518 answers, while the test dataset is three-way annotated so that there are 2204 questions and with 2204·3−76 = 6536 answers, because we removed 76 wrong answers.
See https://deepset.ai/germanquad for more details and dataset download in SQuAD format.
## Hyperparameters
```
batch_size = 24
n_epochs = 2
max_seq_len = 384
learning_rate = 3e-5
lr_schedule = LinearWarmup
embeds_dropout_prob = 0.1
```
## Usage
### In Haystack
Haystack is an AI orchestration framework to build customizable, production-ready LLM applications. You can use this model in Haystack to do extractive question answering on documents.
To load and run the model with [Haystack](https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/):
```python
# After running pip install haystack-ai "transformers[torch,sentencepiece]"
from haystack import Document
from haystack.components.readers import ExtractiveReader
docs = [
Document(content="Python is a popular programming language"),
Document(content="python ist eine beliebte Programmiersprache"),
]
reader = ExtractiveReader(model="deepset/gelectra-large-germanquad")
reader.warm_up()
question = "What is a popular programming language?"
result = reader.run(query=question, documents=docs)
# {'answers': [ExtractedAnswer(query='What is a popular programming language?', score=0.5740374326705933, data='python', document=Document(id=..., content: '...'), context=None, document_offset=ExtractedAnswer.Span(start=0, end=6),...)]}
```
For a complete example with an extractive question answering pipeline that scales over many documents, check out the [corresponding Haystack tutorial](https://haystack.deepset.ai/tutorials/34_extractive_qa_pipeline).
### In Transformers
```python
from transformers import AutoModelForQuestionAnswering, AutoTokenizer, pipeline
model_name = "deepset/gelectra-large-germanquad"
# a) Get predictions
nlp = pipeline('question-answering', model=model_name, tokenizer=model_name)
QA_input = {
'question': 'Why is model conversion important?',
'context': 'The option to convert models between FARM and transformers gives freedom to the user and let people easily switch between frameworks.'
}
res = nlp(QA_input)
# b) Load model & tokenizer
model = AutoModelForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained(model_name)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
```
## Performance
We evaluated the extractive question answering performance on our GermanQuAD test set.
Model types and training data are included in the model name.
For finetuning XLM-Roberta, we use the English SQuAD v2.0 dataset.
The GELECTRA models are warm started on the German translation of SQuAD v1.1 and finetuned on [GermanQuAD](https://deepset.ai/germanquad).
The human baseline was computed for the 3-way test set by taking one answer as prediction and the other two as ground truth.
## Authors
**Timo Möller:** timo.moeller@deepset.ai
**Julian Risch:** julian.risch@deepset.ai
**Malte Pietsch:** malte.pietsch@deepset.ai
## About us
[deepset](http://deepset.ai/) is the company behind the production-ready open-source AI framework [Haystack](https://haystack.deepset.ai/).
Some of our other work:
- [Distilled roberta-base-squad2 (aka "tinyroberta-squad2")](https://huggingface.co/deepset/tinyroberta-squad2)
- [German BERT](https://deepset.ai/german-bert), [GermanQuAD and GermanDPR](https://deepset.ai/germanquad), [German embedding model](https://huggingface.co/mixedbread-ai/deepset-mxbai-embed-de-large-v1)
- [deepset Cloud](https://www.deepset.ai/deepset-cloud-product), [deepset Studio](https://www.deepset.ai/deepset-studio)
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