---
language: en
tags:
- tapas
license: apache-2.0
---

This model contains the converted PyTorch checkpoint of the original Tensorflow model available in the [TaPas repository](https://github.com/google-research/tapas/blob/master/DENSE_TABLE_RETRIEVER.md#reader-models).
It is described in Herzig et al.'s (2021) [paper](https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.43/) _Open Domain Question Answering over Tables via Dense Retrieval_.


# Usage
## In Haystack
If you want to use this model for question-answering over tables, you can load it in [Haystack](https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/):
```python
from haystack.nodes import TableReader

table_reader = TableReader(model_name_or_path="deepset/tapas-large-nq-hn-reader")
```