the working example code to use BertForQuestionAnswering and get an answer...

the working example code to use BertForQuestionAnswering and get an answer from a text and a question

transformers/modeling_bert.py

@@ -1095,12 +1095,16 @@ class BertForQuestionAnswering(BertPreTrainedModel):
     Examples::
 
         tokenizer = BertTokenizer.from_pretrained('bert-base-uncased')
-        model = BertForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained('bert-base-uncased')
-        input_ids = torch.tensor(tokenizer.encode("Hello, my dog is cute")).unsqueeze(0)  # Batch size 1
-        start_positions = torch.tensor([1])
-        end_positions = torch.tensor([3])
-        outputs = model(input_ids, start_positions=start_positions, end_positions=end_positions)
-        loss, start_scores, end_scores = outputs[:2]
+        model = BertForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained('bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-finetuned-squad')
+        question, text = "Who was Jim Henson?", "Jim Henson was a nice puppet"
+        input_text = "[CLS] " + question + " [SEP] " + text + " [SEP]"
+        input_ids = tokenizer.encode(input_text)
+        token_type_ids = [0 if i <= input_ids.index(102) else 1 for i in range(len(input_ids))] 
+        start_scores, end_scores = model(torch.tensor([input_ids]), token_type_ids=torch.tensor([token_type_ids]))
+        all_tokens = tokenizer.convert_ids_to_tokens(input_ids)  
+        print(' '.join(all_tokens[torch.argmax(start_scores) : torch.argmax(end_scores)+1]))
+        # a nice puppet
+
 
     """
     def __init__(self, config):