QA engine on bible commentaries

Bibliqal takes in natural language questions and outputs relevant answers from famous "legit" docummentaries.

Usage by Docker

1. You can either pull my docker image: sudo docker pull vinitrinh/bibliqal
   Or create a new one sudo docker build -t bibliqal .
2. Run a container: sudo docker run -p 5000:5000 bibliqal

Usage locally

1. Clone Repo
2. Replace data folder with the compressed data folder from: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Y6DeuYcr3EbzfiDE1hNQDlowyICdrmS0
3. Download the packages.
   conda create -n bibliqal
pip install -r requirements.txt
4. Run the streamlit app: streamlit run app.py and viola!

Knowledge Bases

Knowledge bases are taken from the following:
Bible hub:
- Expositor's commentary
Blue letter bible:
- John Macarthur
- Edersheim Alfred
- Headley PC
- Hocking David
- Ice Thomas
- Lightfoot JB

Other potential sources for the future:

1. https://www.tms.edu/m/tmsj15g.pdf
2. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cbb.html (Brian Bell's commentaries look straightforward)
3. https://www.preceptaustin.org/tool_commentary
4. https://www.bestcommentaries.com/series/free-bible-commentary-fbc/

Repo Structure

Notes

Note 23 Jan

1. streamlit is unable to run over a tunnel. This means that the app cannot be served. Till then, we can only wait for the fix.
2. docker can be used for the app, this will speed up the setup

Note 21 May

1. Streamlit supposedly fixed the bug in the latest version 0.56.0.
2. Docker image up on vinitrinh/bibliqal