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 An End-To-End Closed Domain Question Answering System. Built on top of the HuggingFace [transformers](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers) library.
 
+**⛔ [NOT MAINTAINED] This repository is no longer maintained, but is being kept around for educational purposes. If you want a maintained alternative to cdQA check out: https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack**
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 ## cdQA in details
 
 If you are interested in understanding how the system works and its implementation, we wrote an [article on Medium](https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-create-your-own-question-answering-system-easily-with-python-2ef8abc8eb5) with a high-level explanation.