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Enabling a computer to understand a document so that it can answer comprehension questions is a central, yet unsolved goal of NLP. A key factor impeding its solution by machine learned systems is the limited availability of human-annotated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Danqi Chen , Jason Bolton , Christopher D. Manning

Answering questions in the context of videos can be helpful in video indexing, video retrieval systems, video summarization, learning management systems and surveillance video analysis. Although there exists a large body of work on visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Pranay Gupta , Manish Gupta

Existing question answering (QA) datasets fail to train QA systems to perform complex reasoning and provide explanations for answers. We introduce HotpotQA, a new dataset with 113k Wikipedia-based question-answer pairs with four key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Zhilin Yang , Peng Qi , Saizheng Zhang , Yoshua Bengio , William W. Cohen , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Christopher D. Manning

The full power of human language-based communication cannot be realized without negation. All human languages have some form of negation. Despite this, negation remains a challenging phenomenon for current natural language understanding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Abhilasha Ravichander , Matt Gardner , Ana Marasović

When answering a question, people often draw upon their rich world knowledge in addition to the particular context. Recent work has focused primarily on answering questions given some relevant document or context, and required very little…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Alon Talmor , Jonathan Herzig , Nicholas Lourie , Jonathan Berant

While diverse question answering (QA) datasets have been proposed and contributed significantly to the development of deep learning models for QA tasks, the existing datasets fall short in two aspects. First, we lack QA datasets covering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Qiyuan Zhang , Lei Wang , Sicheng Yu , Shuohang Wang , Yang Wang , Jing Jiang , Ee-Peng Lim

In the last few years, open-domain question answering (ODQA) has advanced rapidly due to the development of deep learning techniques and the availability of large-scale QA datasets. However, the current datasets are essentially designed for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Jiexin Wang , Adam Jatowt , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Deep reading models for question-answering have demonstrated promising performance over the last couple of years. However current systems tend to learn how to cleverly extract a span of the source document, based on its similarity with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Quentin Grail , Julien Perez

Question answering (QA) and Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) tasks have significantly advanced in recent years due to the rapid development of deep learning techniques and, more recently, large language models. At the same time, many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Bhawna Piryani , Jamshid Mozafari , Adam Jatowt

While there has been substantial progress in text comprehension through simple factoid question answering, more holistic comprehension of a discourse still presents a major challenge (Dunietz et al., 2020). Someone critically reflecting on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Wei-Jen Ko , Cutter Dalton , Mark Simmons , Eliza Fisher , Greg Durrett , Junyi Jessy Li

Textual Question Answering (QA) aims to provide precise answers to user's questions in natural language using unstructured data. One of the most popular approaches to this goal is machine reading comprehension(MRC). In recent years, many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Yang Bai , Daisy Zhe Wang

We introduce \textsc{ComplexTempQA},\footnote{Dataset and code available at: https://github.com/DataScienceUIBK/ComplexTempQA} a large-scale dataset consisting of over 100 million question-answer pairs designed to tackle the challenges in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Raphael Gruber , Abdelrahman Abdallah , Michael Färber , Adam Jatowt

With social media becoming increasingly pop-ular on which lots of news and real-time eventsare reported, developing automated questionanswering systems is critical to the effective-ness of many applications that rely on real-time knowledge.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Wenhan Xiong , Jiawei Wu , Hong Wang , Vivek Kulkarni , Mo Yu , Shiyu Chang , Xiaoxiao Guo , William Yang Wang

We present PeerQA, a real-world, scientific, document-level Question Answering (QA) dataset. PeerQA questions have been sourced from peer reviews, which contain questions that reviewers raised while thoroughly examining the scientific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Tim Baumgärtner , Ted Briscoe , Iryna Gurevych

Humans often have to read multiple documents to address their information needs. However, most existing reading comprehension (RC) tasks only focus on questions for which the contexts provide all the information required to answer them,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 James Ferguson , Matt Gardner , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Tushar Khot , Pradeep Dasigi

We describe a Question Answering (QA) dataset that contains complex questions with conditional answers, i.e. the answers are only applicable when certain conditions apply. We call this dataset ConditionalQA. In addition to conditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Haitian Sun , William W. Cohen , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Large-scale and high-quality corpora are necessary for evaluating machine reading comprehension models on a low-resource language like Vietnamese. Besides, machine reading comprehension (MRC) for the health domain offers great potential for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Kiet Van Nguyen , Tin Van Huynh , Duc-Vu Nguyen , Anh Gia-Tuan Nguyen , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen

In this paper, we present the mQA model, which is able to answer questions about the content of an image. The answer can be a sentence, a phrase or a single word. Our model contains four components: a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-04 Haoyuan Gao , Junhua Mao , Jie Zhou , Zhiheng Huang , Lei Wang , Wei Xu

We present a new dataset for Visual Question Answering (VQA) on document images called DocVQA. The dataset consists of 50,000 questions defined on 12,000+ document images. Detailed analysis of the dataset in comparison with similar datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Minesh Mathew , Dimosthenis Karatzas , C. V. Jawahar

This paper presents a new selection-based question answering dataset, SelQA. The dataset consists of questions generated through crowdsourcing and sentence length answers that are drawn from the ten most prevalent topics in the English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Tomasz Jurczyk , Michael Zhai , Jinho D. Choi