QuestMasterAi / questiongenerator.py
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import en_core_web_sm
import json
import numpy as np
import random
import re
import torch
from transformers import (
AutoTokenizer,
AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM,
AutoModelForSequenceClassification,
)
from typing import Any, List, Mapping, Tuple
class QuestionGenerator:
"""A transformer-based NLP system for generating reading comprehension-style questions from
texts. It can generate full sentence questions, multiple choice questions, or a mix of the
two styles.
To filter out low quality questions, questions are assigned a score and ranked once they have
been generated. Only the top k questions will be returned. This behaviour can be turned off
by setting use_evaluator=False.
"""
def __init__(self) -> None:
QG_PRETRAINED = "iarfmoose/t5-base-question-generator"
self.ANSWER_TOKEN = "<answer>"
self.CONTEXT_TOKEN = "<context>"
self.SEQ_LENGTH = 512
self.device = torch.device(
"cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
self.qg_tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
QG_PRETRAINED, use_fast=False)
self.qg_model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(QG_PRETRAINED)
self.qg_model.to(self.device)
self.qg_model.eval()
self.qa_evaluator = QAEvaluator()
def generate(
self,
article: str,
use_evaluator: bool = True,
num_questions: bool = None,
answer_style: str = "all"
) -> List:
"""Takes an article and generates a set of question and answer pairs. If use_evaluator
is True then QA pairs will be ranked and filtered based on their quality. answer_style
should selected from ["all", "sentences", "multiple_choice"].
"""
print("Generating questions...\n")
qg_inputs, qg_answers = self.generate_qg_inputs(article, answer_style)
generated_questions = self.generate_questions_from_inputs(qg_inputs)
message = "{} questions doesn't match {} answers".format(
len(generated_questions), len(qg_answers)
)
assert len(generated_questions) == len(qg_answers), message
if use_evaluator:
print("Evaluating QA pairs...\n")
encoded_qa_pairs = self.qa_evaluator.encode_qa_pairs(
generated_questions, qg_answers
)
scores = self.qa_evaluator.get_scores(encoded_qa_pairs)
if num_questions:
qa_list = self._get_ranked_qa_pairs(
generated_questions, qg_answers, scores, num_questions
)
else:
qa_list = self._get_ranked_qa_pairs(
generated_questions, qg_answers, scores
)
else:
print("Skipping evaluation step.\n")
qa_list = self._get_all_qa_pairs(generated_questions, qg_answers)
return qa_list
def generate_qg_inputs(self, text: str, answer_style: str) -> Tuple[List[str], List[str]]:
"""Given a text, returns a list of model inputs and a list of corresponding answers.
Model inputs take the form "answer_token <answer text> context_token <context text>" where
the answer is a string extracted from the text, and the context is the wider text surrounding
the context.
"""
VALID_ANSWER_STYLES = ["all", "sentences", "multiple_choice"]
if answer_style not in VALID_ANSWER_STYLES:
raise ValueError(
"Invalid answer style {}. Please choose from {}".format(
answer_style, VALID_ANSWER_STYLES
)
)
inputs = []
answers = []
if answer_style == "sentences" or answer_style == "all":
segments = self._split_into_segments(text)
for segment in segments:
sentences = self._split_text(segment)
prepped_inputs, prepped_answers = self._prepare_qg_inputs(
sentences, segment
)
inputs.extend(prepped_inputs)
answers.extend(prepped_answers)
if answer_style == "multiple_choice" or answer_style == "all":
sentences = self._split_text(text)
prepped_inputs, prepped_answers = self._prepare_qg_inputs_MC(
sentences
)
inputs.extend(prepped_inputs)
answers.extend(prepped_answers)
return inputs, answers
def generate_questions_from_inputs(self, qg_inputs: List) -> List[str]:
"""Given a list of concatenated answers and contexts, with the form:
"answer_token <answer text> context_token <context text>", generates a list of
questions.
"""
generated_questions = []
for qg_input in qg_inputs:
question = self._generate_question(qg_input)
generated_questions.append(question)
return generated_questions
def _split_text(self, text: str) -> List[str]:
"""Splits the text into sentences, and attempts to split or truncate long sentences."""
MAX_SENTENCE_LEN = 128
sentences = re.findall(".*?[.!\?]", text)
cut_sentences = []
for sentence in sentences:
if len(sentence) > MAX_SENTENCE_LEN:
cut_sentences.extend(re.split("[,;:)]", sentence))
# remove useless post-quote sentence fragments
cut_sentences = [s for s in sentences if len(s.split(" ")) > 5]
sentences = sentences + cut_sentences
return list(set([s.strip(" ") for s in sentences]))
def _split_into_segments(self, text: str) -> List[str]:
"""Splits a long text into segments short enough to be input into the transformer network.
Segments are used as context for question generation.
"""
MAX_TOKENS = 490
paragraphs = text.split("\n")
tokenized_paragraphs = [
self.qg_tokenizer(p)["input_ids"] for p in paragraphs if len(p) > 0
]
segments = []
while len(tokenized_paragraphs) > 0:
segment = []
while len(segment) < MAX_TOKENS and len(tokenized_paragraphs) > 0:
paragraph = tokenized_paragraphs.pop(0)
segment.extend(paragraph)
segments.append(segment)
return [self.qg_tokenizer.decode(s, skip_special_tokens=True) for s in segments]
def _prepare_qg_inputs(
self,
sentences: List[str],
text: str
) -> Tuple[List[str], List[str]]:
"""Uses sentences as answers and the text as context. Returns a tuple of (model inputs, answers).
Model inputs are "answer_token <answer text> context_token <context text>"
"""
inputs = []
answers = []
for sentence in sentences:
qg_input = f"{self.ANSWER_TOKEN} {sentence} {self.CONTEXT_TOKEN} {text}"
inputs.append(qg_input)
answers.append(sentence)
return inputs, answers
def _prepare_qg_inputs_MC(self, sentences: List[str]) -> Tuple[List[str], List[str]]:
"""Performs NER on the text, and uses extracted entities are candidate answers for multiple-choice
questions. Sentences are used as context, and entities as answers. Returns a tuple of (model inputs, answers).
Model inputs are "answer_token <answer text> context_token <context text>"
"""
spacy_nlp = en_core_web_sm.load()
docs = list(spacy_nlp.pipe(sentences, disable=["parser"]))
inputs_from_text = []
answers_from_text = []
for doc, sentence in zip(docs, sentences):
entities = doc.ents
if entities:
for entity in entities:
qg_input = f"{self.ANSWER_TOKEN} {entity} {self.CONTEXT_TOKEN} {sentence}"
answers = self._get_MC_answers(entity, docs)
inputs_from_text.append(qg_input)
answers_from_text.append(answers)
return inputs_from_text, answers_from_text
def _get_MC_answers(self, correct_answer: Any, docs: Any) -> List[Mapping[str, Any]]:
"""Finds a set of alternative answers for a multiple-choice question. Will attempt to find
alternatives of the same entity type as correct_answer if possible.
"""
entities = []
for doc in docs:
entities.extend([{"text": e.text, "label_": e.label_}
for e in doc.ents])
# remove duplicate elements
entities_json = [json.dumps(kv) for kv in entities]
pool = set(entities_json)
num_choices = (
min(4, len(pool)) - 1
) # -1 because we already have the correct answer
# add the correct answer
final_choices = []
correct_label = correct_answer.label_
final_choices.append({"answer": correct_answer.text, "correct": True})
pool.remove(
json.dumps({"text": correct_answer.text,
"label_": correct_answer.label_})
)
# find answers with the same NER label
matches = [e for e in pool if correct_label in e]
# if we don't have enough then add some other random answers
if len(matches) < num_choices:
choices = matches
pool = pool.difference(set(choices))
choices.extend(random.sample(pool, num_choices - len(choices)))
else:
choices = random.sample(matches, num_choices)
choices = [json.loads(s) for s in choices]
for choice in choices:
final_choices.append({"answer": choice["text"], "correct": False})
random.shuffle(final_choices)
return final_choices
@torch.no_grad()
def _generate_question(self, qg_input: str) -> str:
"""Takes qg_input which is the concatenated answer and context, and uses it to generate
a question sentence. The generated question is decoded and then returned.
"""
encoded_input = self._encode_qg_input(qg_input)
output = self.qg_model.generate(input_ids=encoded_input["input_ids"])
question = self.qg_tokenizer.decode(
output[0],
skip_special_tokens=True
)
return question
def _encode_qg_input(self, qg_input: str) -> torch.tensor:
"""Tokenizes a string and returns a tensor of input ids corresponding to indices of tokens in
the vocab.
"""
return self.qg_tokenizer(
qg_input,
padding='max_length',
max_length=self.SEQ_LENGTH,
truncation=True,
return_tensors="pt",
).to(self.device)
def _get_ranked_qa_pairs(
self, generated_questions: List[str], qg_answers: List[str], scores, num_questions: int = 10
) -> List[Mapping[str, str]]:
"""Ranks generated questions according to scores, and returns the top num_questions examples.
"""
if num_questions > len(scores):
num_questions = len(scores)
print((
f"\nWas only able to generate {num_questions} questions.",
"For more questions, please input a longer text.")
)
qa_list = []
for i in range(num_questions):
index = scores[i]
qa = {
"question": generated_questions[index].split("?")[0] + "?",
"answer": qg_answers[index]
}
qa_list.append(qa)
return qa_list
def _get_all_qa_pairs(self, generated_questions: List[str], qg_answers: List[str]):
"""Formats question and answer pairs without ranking or filtering."""
qa_list = []
for question, answer in zip(generated_questions, qg_answers):
qa = {
"question": question.split("?")[0] + "?",
"answer": answer
}
qa_list.append(qa)
return qa_list
class QAEvaluator:
"""Wrapper for a transformer model which evaluates the quality of question-answer pairs.
Given a QA pair, the model will generate a score. Scores can be used to rank and filter
QA pairs.
"""
def __init__(self) -> None:
QAE_PRETRAINED = "iarfmoose/bert-base-cased-qa-evaluator"
self.SEQ_LENGTH = 512
self.device = torch.device(
"cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
self.qae_tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(QAE_PRETRAINED)
self.qae_model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(
QAE_PRETRAINED
)
self.qae_model.to(self.device)
self.qae_model.eval()
def encode_qa_pairs(self, questions: List[str], answers: List[str]) -> List[torch.tensor]:
"""Takes a list of questions and a list of answers and encodes them as a list of tensors."""
encoded_pairs = []
for question, answer in zip(questions, answers):
encoded_qa = self._encode_qa(question, answer)
encoded_pairs.append(encoded_qa.to(self.device))
return encoded_pairs
def get_scores(self, encoded_qa_pairs: List[torch.tensor]) -> List[float]:
"""Generates scores for a list of encoded QA pairs."""
scores = {}
for i in range(len(encoded_qa_pairs)):
scores[i] = self._evaluate_qa(encoded_qa_pairs[i])
return [
k for k, v in sorted(scores.items(), key=lambda item: item[1], reverse=True)
]
def _encode_qa(self, question: str, answer: str) -> torch.tensor:
"""Concatenates a question and answer, and then tokenizes them. Returns a tensor of
input ids corresponding to indices in the vocab.
"""
if type(answer) is list:
for a in answer:
if a["correct"]:
correct_answer = a["answer"]
else:
correct_answer = answer
return self.qae_tokenizer(
text=question,
text_pair=correct_answer,
padding="max_length",
max_length=self.SEQ_LENGTH,
truncation=True,
return_tensors="pt",
)
@torch.no_grad()
def _evaluate_qa(self, encoded_qa_pair: torch.tensor) -> float:
"""Takes an encoded QA pair and returns a score."""
output = self.qae_model(**encoded_qa_pair)
return output[0][0][1]
def print_qa(qa_list: List[Mapping[str, str]], show_answers: bool = True) -> None:
"""Formats and prints a list of generated questions and answers."""
for i in range(len(qa_list)):
# wider space for 2 digit q nums
space = " " * int(np.where(i < 9, 3, 4))
print(f"{i + 1}) Q: {qa_list[i]['question']}")
answer = qa_list[i]["answer"]
# print a list of multiple choice answers
if type(answer) is list:
if show_answers:
print(
f"{space}A: 1. {answer[0]['answer']} "
f"{np.where(answer[0]['correct'], '(correct)', '')}"
)
for j in range(1, len(answer)):
print(
f"{space + ' '}{j + 1}. {answer[j]['answer']} "
f"{np.where(answer[j]['correct']==True,'(correct)', '')}"
)
else:
print(f"{space}A: 1. {answer[0]['answer']}")
for j in range(1, len(answer)):
print(f"{space + ' '}{j + 1}. {answer[j]['answer']}")
print("")
# print full sentence answers
else:
if show_answers:
print(f"{space}A: {answer}\n")