def normalize_answer()

in utils/evaluate_qa.py [0:0]

• 12 lines of code
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def normalize_answer(s: str) -> str:
    """Lower text and remove punctuation, articles and extra whitespace."""

    def remove_articles(text):
        regex = re.compile(r'\b(a|an|the)\b', re.UNICODE)
        return re.sub(regex, ' ', text)

    def white_space_fix(text):
        return ' '.join(text.split())

    def remove_punc(text):
        exclude = set(string.punctuation)
        return ''.join(ch for ch in text if ch not in exclude)

    def lower(text):
        return text.lower()

    return white_space_fix(remove_articles(remove_punc(lower(s))))