sotawhat

This script runs using Python 3.

First, install the project using pip3. This script only requires nltk and six. Optionally, you can install the [full] version, which includes PyEnchant for spelling checks.

There are two ways to install it :

$ pip3 install .

$ pip3 install .[full]

If you run the error that the package punkt doesn't exist, this script will automatically download it for you.

On Windows, due to encoding errors, the script may cause issues when run on the command line. It is recommended to use pip install win-unicode-console --upgrade prior to launching the script. If you get UnicodeEncodingError, you must install the above.

In MacOS, you can get the SSL error

[nltk_data] Error loading punkt: <urlopen error [SSL:
[nltk_data]     CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed:
[nltk_data]     unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1045)>

this will be fixed by reinstalling certificates

$ /Applications/Python\ 3.x/Install\ Certificates.command

Usage

This project adds the sotawhat script for you to run globally on Terminal or commandline.

To query for a certain keyword, run:

$ sotawhat "[keyword]"

It also supports choosing the number of returned samples via arguments :

$ sotawhat "[keyword]" -c 10
$ sotawhat "[keyword]" --count 10  # same as above

You can also force exact name matches (if you are sure about spelling) by using the --exact flag.

$ sotawhat "[keyword]" -e
$ sotawhat "[keyword]" --exact

For example:

$ sotawhat "perplexity" --count 10 --exact

If you don't specify the number of results, by default, the script returns 5 results and doesnt perform exact matching. Each result contains the title of the paper with author and published date, a summary of the abstract, and link to the paper.

We've found that this script works well with keywords that are:

• a model (e.g. transformer, wavenet, ...)
• a dataset (e.g. wikitext, imagenet, ...)
• a task (e.g. 'language model', 'machine translation', 'fuzzing', ...)
• a metric (e.g. BLEU, perplexity, ...)
• random stuff