diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 29dd9bd..5488d44 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -120,4 +120,7 @@ glue_data/*
 *_meta_data
 
 # ouptut dir
-*_OUT/*
\ No newline at end of file
+*_OUT/*
+*_out_*/*
+# squad
+SQuAD/*
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ff72274..34e89c3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -101,6 +101,24 @@ End of sequence
 
 - WIP
 
+#### Training Data Preparation
+```bash
+export SQUAD_DIR=SQuAD
+export SQUAD_VERSION=v1.1
+export ALBERT_DIR=large
+export OUTPUT_DIR=squad_out_${SQUAD_VERSION}
+mkdir $OUTPUT_DIR
+
+python create_finetuning_data.py \
+--squad_data_file=${SQUAD_DIR}/train-${SQUAD_VERSION}.json \
+--spm_model_file=large/vocab/30k-clean.model  \
+--train_data_output_path=${OUTPUT_DIR}/squad_${SQUAD_VERSION}_train.tf_record  \
+--meta_data_file_path=${OUTPUT_DIR}/squad_${SQUAD_VERSION}_meta_data  
+--fine_tuning_task_type=squad \
+--max_seq_length=384
+```
+
+
 
 ### Multi-GPU training 
 
diff --git a/create_finetuning_data.py b/create_finetuning_data.py
index 4e3eed0..186d40b 100644
--- a/create_finetuning_data.py
+++ b/create_finetuning_data.py
@@ -14,15 +14,13 @@
 # ==============================================================================
 """BERT finetuning task dataset generator."""
 
-from __future__ import absolute_import
-from __future__ import division
-from __future__ import print_function
+from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 
 import json
 
-from absl import app
-from absl import flags
 import tensorflow as tf
+from absl import app, flags, logging
+
 import classifier_data_lib
 import squad_lib
 
@@ -127,6 +125,7 @@ def generate_squad_dataset():
 
 
 def main(_):
+  logging.set_verbosity(logging.INFO)
   if FLAGS.fine_tuning_task_type == "classification":
     input_meta_data = generate_classifier_dataset()
   else:
diff --git a/squad_lib.py b/squad_lib.py
index 7180655..292c207 100644
--- a/squad_lib.py
+++ b/squad_lib.py
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ def convert_examples_to_features(examples, tokenizer, max_seq_length,
   f = np.zeros((max_n, max_m), dtype=np.float32)
 
   for (example_index, example) in enumerate(examples):
-
+    
     if example_index % 100 == 0:
       logging.info("Converting {}/{} pos {} neg {}".format(
           example_index, len(examples), cnt_pos, cnt_neg))
@@ -254,20 +254,24 @@ def convert_examples_to_features(examples, tokenizer, max_seq_length,
             example.paragraph_text, lower=FLAGS.do_lower_case),
         return_unicode=False)
 
+    para_tokens_ = []
+    for para_token in para_tokens:
+       if type(para_token) == bytes:
+         para_token = para_token.decode("utf-8")
+       para_tokens_.append(para_token)
+    para_tokens = para_tokens_
+
     chartok_to_tok_index = []
     tok_start_to_chartok_index = []
     tok_end_to_chartok_index = []
     char_cnt = 0
     for i, token in enumerate(para_tokens):
-      new_token = six.ensure_binary(token).replace(
-          tokenization.SPIECE_UNDERLINE, b" ")
-      chartok_to_tok_index.extend([i] * len(new_token))
+      chartok_to_tok_index.extend([i] * len(token))
       tok_start_to_chartok_index.append(char_cnt)
-      char_cnt += len(new_token)
+      char_cnt += len(token)
       tok_end_to_chartok_index.append(char_cnt - 1)
 
-    tok_cat_text = "".join(para_tokens).replace(
-        tokenization.SPIECE_UNDERLINE.decode("utf-8"), " ")
+    tok_cat_text = "".join(para_tokens).replace(tokenization.SPIECE_UNDERLINE.decode("utf-8"), " ")
     n, m = len(paragraph_text), len(tok_cat_text)
 
     if n > max_n or m > max_m:
@@ -855,7 +859,7 @@ def generate_tf_record_from_json_file(input_file_path,
   train_writer.close()
 
   meta_data = {
-      "task_type": "bert_squad",
+      "task_type": "albert_squad",
       "train_data_size": number_of_examples,
       "max_seq_length": max_seq_length,
       "max_query_length": max_query_length,
diff --git a/tokenization.py b/tokenization.py
index abf6781..d0bb8a8 100644
--- a/tokenization.py
+++ b/tokenization.py
@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ def preprocess_text(inputs, remove_space=True, lower=False):
   if remove_space:
     outputs = " ".join(inputs.strip().split())
 
+  outputs = outputs.replace('``', '"').replace("''", '"')
+
   if six.PY2 and isinstance(outputs, str):
     try:
       outputs = six.ensure_text(outputs, "utf-8")
@@ -494,4 +496,4 @@ def _is_punctuation(char):
   cat = unicodedata.category(char)
   if cat.startswith("P"):
     return True
-  return False
\ No newline at end of file
+  return False