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Achieving human-level performance on some of Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) datasets is no longer challenging with the help of powerful Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs). However, it is necessary to provide both answer prediction and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Yiming Cui , Ting Liu , Wanxiang Che , Zhigang Chen , Shijin Wang

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) with multiple-choice questions requires the machine to read given passage and select the correct answer among several candidates. In this paper, we propose a novel approach called Convolutional Spatial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Zhipeng Chen , Yiming Cui , Wentao Ma , Shijin Wang , Guoping Hu

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

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

Conversational machine reading comprehension (CMRC) aims to assist computers to understand an natural language text and thereafter engage in a multi-turn conversation to answer questions related to the text. Existing methods typically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Xiao Zhang , Heyan Huang , Zewen Chi , Xian-Ling Mao

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 Reading Comprehension (MRC) is an essential task in evaluating natural language understanding. Existing MRC datasets primarily assess specific aspects of reading comprehension (RC), lacking a comprehensive MRC benchmark. To fill…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Shengkun Ma , Hao Peng , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) reveals the ability to understand a given text passage and answer questions based on it. Existing research works in MRC rely heavily on large-size models and corpus to improve the performance evaluated by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Xiaoqiang Wang , Bang Liu , Fangli Xu , Bo Long , Siliang Tang , Lingfei Wu

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) is a crucial task in natural language processing and has achieved remarkable advancements. However, most of the neural MRC models are still far from robust and fail to generalize well in real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Hongxuan Tang , Hongyu Li , Jing Liu , Yu Hong , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Multi-choice Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) as a challenge requires models to select the most appropriate answer from a set of candidates with a given passage and question. Most of the existing researches focus on the modeling of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yilin Zhao , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

Owing to the continuous efforts by the Chinese NLP community, more and more Chinese machine reading comprehension datasets become available. To add diversity in this area, in this paper, we propose a new task called Sentence Cloze-style…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Yiming Cui , Ting Liu , Ziqing Yang , Zhipeng Chen , Wentao Ma , Wanxiang Che , Shijin Wang , Guoping Hu

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) aims to teach machines to read and comprehend human languages, which is a long-standing goal of natural language processing (NLP). With the burst of deep neural networks and the evolution of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao , Rui Wang

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

While most successful approaches for machine reading comprehension rely on single training objective, it is assumed that the encoder layer can learn great representation through the loss function we define in the predict layer, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Yifeng Xie

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

Multi-hop Machine reading comprehension is a challenging task with aim of answering a question based on disjoint pieces of information across the different passages. The evaluation metrics and datasets are a vital part of multi-hop MRC…

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

Multi-choice Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) is a major and challenging task for machines to answer questions according to provided options. Answers in multi-choice MRC cannot be directly extracted in the given passages, and essentially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Yilin Zhao , Hai Zhao , Sufeng Duan

This paper provides a thorough examination of recent developments in the field of multi-choice Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC). Focused on benchmark datasets, methodologies, challenges, and future trajectories, our goal is to offer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Shima Foolad , Kourosh Kiani , Razieh Rastgoo

Machine reading comprehension is a challenging task and hot topic in natural language processing. Its goal is to develop systems to answer the questions regarding a given context. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Razieh Baradaran , Razieh Ghiasi , Hossein Amirkhani

We present an accurate and interpretable method for answer extraction in machine reading comprehension that is reminiscent of case-based reasoning (CBR) from classical AI. Our method (CBR-MRC) builds upon the hypothesis that contextualized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Dung Thai , Dhruv Agarwal , Mudit Chaudhary , Wenlong Zhao , Rajarshi Das , Manzil Zaheer , Jay-Yoon Lee , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Andrew McCallum