Retrieval Question Answering with Sources #
This notebook goes over how to do question-answering with sources over an Index. It does this by using the
RetrievalQAWithSourcesChain
, which does the lookup of the documents from an Index.
from langchain.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddings
from langchain.embeddings.cohere import CohereEmbeddings
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
from langchain.vectorstores.elastic_vector_search import ElasticVectorSearch
from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
with open("../../state_of_the_union.txt") as f:
state_of_the_union = f.read()
text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=0)
texts = text_splitter.split_text(state_of_the_union)
embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
docsearch = Chroma.from_texts(texts, embeddings, metadatas=[{"source": f"{i}-pl"} for i in range(len(texts))])
Running Chroma using direct local API.
Using DuckDB in-memory for database. Data will be transient.
from langchain.chains import RetrievalQAWithSourcesChain
from langchain import OpenAI
chain = RetrievalQAWithSourcesChain.from_chain_type(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff", retriever=docsearch.as_retriever())
chain({"question": "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'answer': ' The president honored Justice Breyer for his service and mentioned his legacy of excellence.\n',
'sources': '31-pl'}
Chain Type #
You can easily specify different chain types to load and use in the RetrievalQAWithSourcesChain chain. For a more detailed walkthrough of these types, please see this notebook .
There are two ways to load different chain types. First, you can specify the chain type argument in the
from_chain_type
method. This allows you to pass in the name of the chain type you want to use. For example, in the below we change the chain type to
map_reduce
.
chain = RetrievalQAWithSourcesChain.from_chain_type(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="map_reduce", retriever=docsearch.as_retriever())
chain({"question": "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'answer': ' The president said "Justice Breyer—an Army veteran, Constitutional scholar, and retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Justice Breyer, thank you for your service."\n',
'sources': '31-pl'}
The above way allows you to really simply change the chain_type, but it does provide a ton of flexibility over parameters to that chain type. If you want to control those parameters, you can load the chain directly (as you did in
this notebook
) and then pass that directly to the the RetrievalQAWithSourcesChain chain with the
combine_documents_chain
parameter. For example:
from langchain.chains.qa_with_sources import load_qa_with_sources_chain
qa_chain = load_qa_with_sources_chain(OpenAI(temperature=0), chain_type="stuff")
qa = RetrievalQAWithSourcesChain(combine_documents_chain=qa_chain, retriever=docsearch.as_retriever())
qa({"question": "What did the president say about Justice Breyer"}, return_only_outputs=True)
{'answer': ' The president honored Justice Breyer for his service and mentioned his legacy of excellence.\n',
'sources': '31-pl'}