Answering questions from product descriptions

An online retailer wants to improve its customer support by automatically answering common questions about products using their descriptions. Your task is to use a Hugging Face pipeline to extract precise answers from a product description based on customer queries.

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Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python

Exercise instructions

Create a qa_pipeline using the "distilbert/distilbert-base-cased-distilled-squad" model for question answering.
Use the provided context (product description) and question to get an answer.

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from transformers import pipeline

# Create the question-answering pipeline
qa_pipeline = pipeline(
    task="____",
    model="____"
)

context = """This smartphone features a 6.5-inch OLED display, 128GB of storage, and a 48MP camera with night mode. It supports 5G connectivity and has a battery life of up to 24 hours."""

question = "What is the size of the smartphone's display?"

# Get the answer
result = ____
print(result)

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Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python

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