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Machine reading comprehension aims to teach machines to understand a text like a human and is a new challenging direction in Artificial Intelligence. This article summarizes recent advances in MRC, mainly focusing on two aspects (i.e.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Xin Zhang , An Yang , Sujian Li , Yizhong Wang

To provide a survey on the existing tasks and models in Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC), this report reviews: 1) the dataset collection and performance evaluation of some representative simple-reasoning and complex-reasoning MRC tasks;…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Chao Wang

Multimedia or spoken content presents more attractive information than plain text content, but it's more difficult to display on a screen and be selected by a user. As a result, accessing large collections of the former is much more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Bo-Hsiang Tseng , Sheng-Syun Shen , Hung-Yi Lee , Lin-Shan Lee

Understanding open-domain text is one of the primary challenges in natural language processing (NLP). Machine comprehension benchmarks evaluate the system's ability to understand text based on the text content only. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Wenpeng Yin , Sebastian Ebert , Hinrich Schütze

Typically, machine learning systems solve new tasks by training on thousands of examples. In contrast, humans can solve new tasks by reading some instructions, with perhaps an example or two. To take a step toward closing this gap, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Orion Weller , Nicholas Lourie , Matt Gardner , Matthew E. Peters

Achieving human-level performance on some of the Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) datasets is no longer challenging with the help of powerful Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs). However, the internal mechanism of these artifacts remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yiming Cui , Wei-Nan Zhang , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu , Zhigang Chen , Shijin Wang

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) has received considerable attention as a benchmark for natural language understanding. However, the conventional task design of MRC lacks explainability beyond the model interpretation, i.e., reading…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Saku Sugawara , Pontus Stenetorp , Akiko Aizawa

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) is a long-standing topic in natural language processing (NLP). The MRC task aims to answer a question based on the given context. Recently studies focus on multi-hop MRC which is a more challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Azade Mohammadi , Reza Ramezani , Ahmad Baraani

Understanding unstructured text is a major goal within natural language processing. Comprehension tests pose questions based on short text passages to evaluate such understanding. In this work, we investigate machine comprehension on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Adam Trischler , Zheng Ye , Xingdi Yuan , Jing He , Phillip Bachman , Kaheer Suleman

Machine Comprehension (MC) is a challenging task in Natural Language Processing field, which aims to guide the machine to comprehend a passage and answer the given question. Many existing approaches on MC task are suffering the inefficiency…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Zheqian Chen , Rongqin Yang , Bin Cao , Zhou Zhao , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He

In this study, we propose a structured methodology that utilizes large language models (LLMs) in a cost-efficient and parsimonious manner, integrating the strengths of scholars and machines while offsetting their respective weaknesses. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Navid Asgari , Benjamin M. Cole

Breakthroughs in deep learning and memory networks have made major advances in natural language understanding. Language is sequential and information carried through the sequence can be captured through memory networks. Learning the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Anupiya Nugaliyadde

The issue of shortcut learning is widely known in NLP and has been an important research focus in recent years. Unintended correlations in the data enable models to easily solve tasks that were meant to exhibit advanced language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Xanh Ho , Johannes Mario Meissner , Saku Sugawara , Akiko Aizawa

Estimating the cognitive complexity of reading comprehension (RC) items is crucial for assessing item difficulty before it is administered to learners. Unlike syntactic and semantic features, such as passage length or semantic similarity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Seonjeong Hwang , Hyounghun Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

Reading comprehension is a challenging task in natural language processing and requires a set of skills to be solved. While current approaches focus on solving the task as a whole, in this paper, we propose to use a neural network `skill'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Todor Mihaylov , Zornitsa Kozareva , Anette Frank

Natural language processing (NLP) enables the understanding and generation of meaningful human language, typically using a pre-trained complex architecture on a large dataset to learn the language and next fine-tune its weights to implement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Yarden Tzach , Ronit D. Gross , Ella Koresh , Shalom Rosner , Or Shpringer , Tal Halevi , Ido Kanter

Human evaluation plays a crucial role in Natural Language Processing (NLP) as it assesses the quality and relevance of developed systems, thereby facilitating their enhancement. However, the absence of widely accepted human evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Iva Bojic , Jessica Chen , Si Yuan Chang , Qi Chwen Ong , Shafiq Joty , Josip Car

Performance of NLP systems is typically evaluated by collecting a large-scale dataset by means of crowd-sourcing to train a data-driven model and evaluate it on a held-out portion of the data. This approach has been shown to suffer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Viktor Schlegel , Goran Nenadic , Riza Batista-Navarro

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are widely used in the field of natural language processing (NLP), ranging from text categorization to question answering and machine translation. However, RNNs generally read the whole text from beginning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Ting Huang , Gehui Shen , Zhi-Hong Deng

Recent advances in deep neural networks, language modeling and language generation have introduced new ideas to the field of conversational agents. As a result, deep neural models such as sequence-to-sequence, Memory Networks, and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Momchil Hardalov , Ivan Koychev , Preslav Nakov