readme: ---
  license: mit
  ---
  
  # Romanian Covid Question Answering
  
  This repository contains the a Romanian question answering for Covid-19 related queries. We used as the base model the [Romanian DistilBERT](https://huggingface.co/racai/distilbert-base-romanian-uncased).
  
  The model was introduced in [this paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08046).
  
  ## Usage
  
  **Important Note:** Currently, the model is not available for usage through the HuggingFace library.
   
  Please install the following package:
  
  ```
  pip install git+https://github.com/racai-ai/BERT-SQuAD
  ```
  
  Then you can use the model with the following code sample:
  
  ```python
  from bert import QA
  
  model = QA("racai/e4a-covid-question-answering")
  
  context = "Reacțiile adverse frecvente la tratamentul cu paxlovid sunt diaree, vărsături, mioartralgii, astenie fizică, erupții, inclusiv sindrom Stevens-Johnson."
  question = "La ce reacții adverse să mă aștept dacă iau paxlovid?"
  
  out = model.predict(context, question)
  print(out)
  # {'answer': 'diaree, vărsături, mioartralgii, astenie fizică, erupții, inclusiv sindrom Stevens-Johnson.', 'start': 8, 'end': 16, 'confidence': 0.999903004533245, 'document': [...]}
  ```
  
  ### Citation
  ```bibtex
  @article{ion2022open,
    title={An Open-Domain QA System for e-Governance},
    author={Ion, Radu and Avram, Andrei-Marius and P{\u{a}}i{\c{s}}, Vasile and Mitrofan, Maria and Mititelu, Verginica Barbu and Irimia, Elena and Badea, Valentin},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.08046},
    year={2022}
  }
  ```