Title
CFO: A Framework for Building Production NLP Systems
Abstract
This paper introduces a novel orchestration framework, called CFO (COMPUTATION FLOW ORCHESTRATOR), for building, experimenting with, and deploying interactive NLP (Natural Language Processing) and IR (Information Retrieval) systems to production environments. We then demonstrate a question answering system built using this framework which incorporates state-of-the-art BERT based MRC (Machine Reading Comprehension) with IR components to enable end-to-end answer retrieval. Results from the demo system are shown to be high quality in both academic and industry domain specific settings. Finally, we discuss best practices when (pre-)training BERT based MRC models for production systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.18653/v1/D19-3006
EMNLP/IJCNLP (3)
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rishav Chakravarti101.69
Cezar Pendus200.34
Andrzej Sakrajda300.34
Anthony Ferritto401.69
Lin Pan502.03
Michael Glass600.34
Vittorio Castelli7928129.71
J. W. Murdock816212.22
Radu Florian992491.44
Salim Roukos106248845.50
Avi Sil1111.83