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Hypothesis testing is an important cognitive process that supports human reasoning. In this paper, we introduce a computational hypothesis testing approach based on memory augmented neural networks. Our approach involves a hypothesis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Tsendsuren Munkhdalai , Hong Yu

Multi-choice Machine Reading Comprehension (MMRC) aims to select the correct answer from a set of options based on a given passage and question. The existing methods employ the pre-trained language model as the encoder, share and transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Chenhao Cui , Yufan Jiang , Shuangzhi Wu , Zhoujun Li

Machine comprehension, answering a question depending on a given context paragraph is a typical task of Natural Language Understanding. It requires to model complex dependencies existing between the question and the context paragraph. There…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Anna Aniol , Marcin Pietron

Multiple-choice (MC) tests are an efficient method to assess English learners. It is useful for test creators to rank candidate MC questions by difficulty during exam curation. Typically, the difficulty is determined by having human test…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Vatsal Raina , Mark Gales

Understanding the meaning of a text is a fundamental challenge of natural language understanding (NLU) research. An ideal NLU system should process a language in a way that is not exclusive to a single task or a dataset. Keeping this in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Kinjal Basu , Sarat Varanasi , Farhad Shakerin , Joaquin Arias , Gopal Gupta

Students often do not fully understand the code they have written. This sometimes does not become evident until later in their education, which can mean it is harder to fix their incorrect knowledge or misunderstandings. In addition, being…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Martin Goodfellow , Robbie Booth , Andrew Fagan , Alasdair Lambert

Building machines that can understand text like humans is an AI-complete problem. A great deal of research has already gone into this, with astounding results, allowing everyday people to discuss with their telephones, or have their reading…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Christina Lioma

In this paper, we aim to extract commonsense knowledge to improve machine reading comprehension. We propose to represent relations implicitly by situating structured knowledge in a context instead of relying on a pre-defined set of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Kai Sun , Dian Yu , Jianshu Chen , Dong Yu , Claire Cardie

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) has become a core component in a variety of natural language processing (NLP) applications such as question answering and dialogue systems. It becomes a practical challenge that an MRC model needs to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Lixin Su , Jiafeng Guo , Ruqing Zhang , Yixing Fan , Yanyan Lan , Xueqi Cheng

Pre-trained language models achieves high performance on machine reading comprehension (MRC) tasks but the results are hard to explain. An appealing approach to make models explainable is to provide rationales for its decision. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Jiajie Zou , Yuran Zhang , Peiqing Jin , Cheng Luo , Xunyi Pan , Nai Ding

Mechanistic interpretability aims to reverse engineer the computation performed by a neural network in terms of its internal components. Although there is a growing body of research on mechanistic interpretation of neural networks, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Nils Palumbo , Ravi Mangal , Zifan Wang , Saranya Vijayakumar , Corina S. Pasareanu , Somesh Jha

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) has become enormously popular recently and has attracted a lot of attention. However, the existing reading comprehension datasets are mostly in English. In this paper, we introduce a Span-Extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Yiming Cui , Ting Liu , Wanxiang Che , Li Xiao , Zhipeng Chen , Wentao Ma , Shijin Wang , Guoping Hu

Understanding how events are semantically related to each other is the essence of reading comprehension. Recent event-centric reading comprehension datasets focus mostly on event arguments or temporal relations. While these tasks partially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Rujun Han , I-Hung Hsu , Jiao Sun , Julia Baylon , Qiang Ning , Dan Roth , Nanyun Peng

Multilingual semantic parsing aims to leverage the knowledge from the high-resource languages to improve low-resource semantic parsing, yet commonly suffers from the data imbalance problem. Prior works propose to utilize the translations by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Zhuang Li , Lizhen Qu , Philip R. Cohen , Raj V. Tumuluri , Gholamreza Haffari

Machine Reading Comprehension with Unanswerable Questions is a difficult NLP task, challenged by the questions which can not be answered from passages. It is observed that subtle literal changes often make an answerable question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Yunjie Ji , Liangyu Chen , Chenxiao Dou , Baochang Ma , Xiangang Li

In this work we present a Mixture of Task-Aware Experts Network for Machine Reading Comprehension on a relatively small dataset. We particularly focus on the issue of common-sense learning, enforcing the common ground knowledge by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Anirudha Rayasam , Anusha Kamath , Gabriel Bayomi Tinoco Kalejaiye

Current speech translation systems, while having achieved impressive accuracies, are rather static in their behavior and do not adapt to real-world situations in ways human interpreters do. In order to improve their practical usefulness and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Matthias Sperber , Maureen de Seyssel , Jiajun Bao , Matthias Paulik

Reading and understanding text is one important component in computer aided diagnosis in clinical medicine, also being a major research problem in the field of NLP. In this work, we introduce a question-answering task called MedQA to study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Xiao Zhang , Ji Wu , Zhiyang He , Xien Liu , Ying Su

Understanding AI systems' inner workings is critical for ensuring value alignment and safety. This review explores mechanistic interpretability: reverse engineering the computational mechanisms and representations learned by neural networks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Leonard Bereska , Efstratios Gavves

Supervised machine learning provides the learner with a set of input-output examples of the target task. Humans, however, can also learn to perform new tasks from instructions in natural language. Can machines learn to understand…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Avia Efrat , Omer Levy