⚙️ Configuration

The EvidenceSeeker pipeline has three main components: a preprocessor, a retriever, and a confirmation analysis component. These components are only loosely coupled and can be configured independently. This allows you to adapt the EvidenceSeeker pipeline to your specific needs and use cases. You can configure, for instance,

• the language models used for preprocessing and confirmation analysis,
• the embedding model used for creating and searching the index of your knowledge base,
• the knowledge base used for fact-checking and
• the used prompts for the different components.

There are two ways to configure your EvidenceSeeker instance: Initialising configuration objects or via YAML configuration files. If you use the EvidenceSeeker client (see “Getting Started”) to set up your EvidenceSeeker instance, you will find the configuration files in the config/ directory of your EvidenceSeeker instance.

If you initialise your EvidenceSeeker instance programmatically, you can pass config files:

from evidence_seeker import EvidenceSeeker
import asyncio

pipeline = EvidenceSeeker(
    retrieval_config_file="path/to/retrieval_config.yaml",
    confirmation_analysis_config_file="path/to/confirmation_analysis_config.yaml",
    preprocessing_config_file="path/to/preprocessing_config.yaml",
)
# run the pipeline
results = asyncio.run(pipeline("your statement to fact-check"))

or config objects:

from evidence_seeker import (
    EvidenceSeeker,
    RetrievalConfig,
    ConfirmationAnalysisConfig,
    PreprocessingConfig,
)
import asyncio

preprocessing_config = PreprocessingConfig(
    # passing config params ... 
)
retrieval_config = RetrievalConfig(
    # passing config params ...
)
confirmation_analysis_config = ConfirmationAnalysisConfig(
    # passing config params ... 
)

pipeline = EvidenceSeeker(
    preprocessing_config=preprocessing_config,
    retrieval_config=retrieval_config,
    confirmation_analysis_config=confirmation_analysis_config,
)
# run the pipeline
results = asyncio.run(pipeline("your statement to fact-check"))