FelisCatus Zero-multilingual

This system answers world history essay questions in Japanese and/or English and evaluate the answers.

(past version: FelisCatus Zero.)

Trial

1. Install Scala and Simple Build Tool (SBT).
2. Git-clone or download this repository.
3. Run trial.sh

$ bash trial.sh

Quick Start Guide

(1) Software Installation for FelisCatus Zero Running

Install the following softwares before running (non-trial) FelisCatus Zero

• Scala
• Simple Build Tool (SBT)
• Indri search engine. See here
• Japanese language analyzer (MeCab). See here

Note: I am planning to make remote services to enable to run without local Indri and MeCab.

(2) Knowledge Source Installation

See Knowledge Source Installation

Note: Knowledge source accessible people are currently limited because of a license issue.
Note: I am planning to make remote services to enable to run without local knowledge sources.

(3) Download FelisCatus Zero

Git-clone or download this repository

Git-clone via HTTPS

cd (directory for downloading this repository)
git clone https://github.com/ktr-skmt/FelisCatusZero-multilingual.git

Git-clone via SSH

cd (directory for downloading this repository)
git clone [email protected]:ktr-skmt/FelisCatusZero-multilingual.git

Download

cd (directory for downloading this repository)
wget https://github.com/ktr-skmt/FelisCatusZero-multilingual/archive/master.zip

(4) Question-and-gold-standard Pair Installation

Sample questions have already been installed in this repository.

If you want to Install other pairs of question and gold standard, do the following 1. and/or 2.

1. Put QA Lab-3 essay subtask datasets into src/main/resources/qalab_dataset
2. Put QA Corpus into src/main/resources/qa_courpus

Note: I am planning to make remote services to enable to download training data and test data without installing them locally.

(5) How to Run

Run through SBT Shell (Recommended)

See How to Run through SBT Shell

Run through SBT Batch Mode

See Run.ipynb

Libraries

FelisCatusZero-multilingual has three libraries as sub-projects:

• FelisCatus Zero-Libraries
• FelisCatus Zero-Libraries4UIMA
• FelisCatus Zero-Libraries4JCas

FelisCatusZero-multilingual is dependent on FelisCatus Zero-Libraries4JCas, FelisCatus Zero-Libraries4UIMA and JCas generated from FelisCatusZero's type system by JCasGen. FelisCatus Zero-Libraries4JCas is dependent on FelisCatus Zero-Libraries and FelisCatus Zero-Libraries4UIMA. The three libraries' dependencies are shown in the following table.

LIBRARY	DEPENDENT on UIMA	DEPENDENT on JCas generated from FelisCatusZero's type system
FelisCatus Zero-Libraries	NO	NO
FelisCatus Zero-Libraries4UIMA	YES	NO
FelisCatus Zero-Libraries4JCas	YES	YES

See build.sbt if you want to look in more detail.