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In this paper, we introduce the Reinforced Mnemonic Reader for machine reading comprehension tasks, which enhances previous attentive readers in two aspects. First, a reattention mechanism is proposed to refine current attentions by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Minghao Hu , Yuxing Peng , Zhen Huang , Xipeng Qiu , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou

Existing question answering systems can only predict answers without explicit reasoning processes, which hinder their explainability and make us overestimate their ability of understanding and reasoning over natural language. In this work,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Ran Wang , Kun Tao , Dingjie Song , Zhilong Zhang , Xiao Ma , Xi'ao Su , Xinyu Dai

Reading comprehension has been widely studied. One of the most representative reading comprehension tasks is Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD), on which machine is already comparable with human. On the other hand, accessing large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Chia-Hsuan Li , Szu-Lin Wu , Chi-Liang Liu , Hung-yi Lee

Question answering systems usually use keyword searches to retrieve potential passages related to a question, and then extract the answer from passages with the machine reading comprehension methods. However, many questions tend to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Wei Peng , Yue Hu , Jing Yu , Luxi Xing , Yuqiang Xie , Zihao Zhu , Yajing Sun

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 typical machine learning systems, an estimate of the probability of the prediction is used to assess the system's confidence in the prediction. This confidence measure is usually uncalibrated; i.e.\ the system's confidence in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Shehzaad Dhuliawala , Leonard Adolphs , Rajarshi Das , Mrinmaya Sachan

Enabling a machine to read and comprehend the natural language documents so that it can answer some questions remains an elusive challenge. In recent years, the popularity of deep learning and the establishment of large-scale datasets have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Boyu Qiu , Xu Chen , Jungang Xu , Yingfei Sun

We present the EpiReader, a novel model for machine comprehension of text. Machine comprehension of unstructured, real-world text is a major research goal for natural language processing. Current tests of machine comprehension pose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Adam Trischler , Zheng Ye , Xingdi Yuan , Kaheer Suleman

In this paper, we consider the problem of machine reading task when the questions are in the form of keywords, rather than natural language. In recent years, researchers have achieved significant success on machine reading comprehension…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Boyuan Pan , Hao Li , Zhou Zhao , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He

Advances in machine reading comprehension (MRC) rely heavily on the collection of large scale human-annotated examples in the form of (question, paragraph, answer) triples. In contrast, humans are typically able to generalize with only a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Qinyuan Ye , Xiao Huang , Elizabeth Boschee , Xiang Ren

Many tasks aim to measure machine reading comprehension (MRC), often focusing on question types presumed to be difficult. Rarely, however, do task designers start by considering what systems should in fact comprehend. In this paper we make…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Jesse Dunietz , Gregory Burnham , Akash Bharadwaj , Owen Rambow , Jennifer Chu-Carroll , David Ferrucci

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) is the task of answering a question over a paragraph of text. While neural MRC systems gain popularity and achieve noticeable performance, issues are being raised with the methodology used to establish…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Viktor Schlegel , Marco Valentino , André Freitas , Goran Nenadic , Riza Batista-Navarro

Question Answering, including Reading Comprehension, is one of the NLP research areas that has seen significant scientific breakthroughs over the past few years, thanks to the concomitant advances in Language Modeling. Most of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Quentin Heinrich , Gautier Viaud , Wacim Belblidia

Multi-hop QA with annotated supporting facts, which is the task of reading comprehension (RC) considering the interpretability of the answer, has been extensively studied. In this study, we define an interpretable reading comprehension…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Kosuke Nishida , Kyosuke Nishida , Itsumi Saito , Sen Yoshida

A fundamental trade-off between effectiveness and efficiency needs to be balanced when designing an online question answering system. Effectiveness comes from sophisticated functions such as extractive machine reading comprehension (MRC),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Ming Yan , Jiangnan Xia , Chen Wu , Bin Bi , Zhongzhou Zhao , Ji Zhang , Luo Si , Rui Wang , Wei Wang , Haiqing Chen

Multiple-choice machine reading comprehension is difficult task as its required machines to select the correct option from a set of candidate or possible options using the given passage and question.Reading Comprehension with Multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Vaishali Ingale , Pushpender Singh

In this paper, we present a novel approach to machine reading comprehension for the MS-MARCO dataset. Unlike the SQuAD dataset that aims to answer a question with exact text spans in a passage, the MS-MARCO dataset defines the task as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Chuanqi Tan , Furu Wei , Nan Yang , Bowen Du , Weifeng Lv , Ming Zhou

We study the problem of completely automatically verifying uninterpreted programs---programs that work over arbitrary data models that provide an interpretation for the constants, functions and relations the program uses. The verification…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Umang Mathur , P. Madhusudan , Mahesh Viswanathan

Despite recent progress on conversational systems, they still do not perform smoothly and coherently when faced with ambiguous requests. When questions are unclear, conversational systems should have the ability to ask clarifying questions,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Negar Arabzadeh , Mahsa Seifikar , Charles L. A. Clarke

We present a novel neural architecture for answering queries, designed to optimally leverage explicit support in the form of query-answer memories. Our model is able to refine and update a given query while separately accumulating evidence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Dirk Weissenborn