Download the following Transformers repo https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/v4.1.1/examples/seq2seq

Place the content of Yahoo-CHQ-Summ into transformers/examples/seq2seq

The code requires Python 3 and please install the Python dependencies with the command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

1. Download the CHQ-Summ dataset from OSF repository and place train.json/val.json/test.json in data/dataset/CHQ-Summ directory
2. Download the Yahoo L6 dataset from here and place the xml file in data/dataset/Yahoo-L6
3. Run the following code to extract the subject and content from the Yahoo L6 dataset.

   python read_yahoo_data.py --Yahoo_data_path /path/to/the/Yahoo-L6/dataset  --CHQ_summ_path data/dataset/CHQ-Summ
   

1. Update the CURRENT_DIR path in run_4_chq_sum.sh

2. Train and evalaute the models on CHQ-Summ dataset.

   bash run_4_chq_sum.sh