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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

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

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) aims to extract answers to questions given a passage. It has been widely studied recently, especially in open domains. However, few efforts have been made on closed-domain MRC, mainly due to the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Taolin Zhang , Chengyu Wang , Minghui Qiu , Bite Yang , Xiaofeng He , Jun Huang

Machine reading comprehension tasks require a machine reader to answer questions relevant to the given document. In this paper, we present the first free-form multiple-Choice Chinese machine reading Comprehension dataset (C^3), containing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Kai Sun , Dian Yu , Dong Yu , Claire Cardie

In spite of much recent research in the area, it is still unclear whether subject-area question-answering data is useful for machine reading comprehension (MRC) tasks. In this paper, we investigate this question. We collect a large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Dian Yu , Kai Sun , Dong Yu , Claire Cardie

Reading Comprehension (RC) is a task of answering a question from a given passage or a set of passages. In the case of multiple passages, the task is to find the best possible answer to the question. Recent trials and experiments in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Avi Chawla

Although many large-scale knowledge bases (KBs) claim to contain multilingual information, their support for many non-English languages is often incomplete. This incompleteness gives birth to the task of cross-lingual question answering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Chen Zhang , Yuxuan Lai , Yansong Feng , Xingyu Shen , Haowei Du , Dongyan Zhao

To bridge the gap between Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) models and human beings, which is mainly reflected in the hunger for data and the robustness to noise, in this paper, we explore how to integrate the neural networks of MRC…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Chao Wang , Hui Jiang

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

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

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) is an AI challenge that requires machine to determine the correct answers to questions based on a given passage. MRC systems must not only answer question when necessary but also distinguish when no…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Zhuosheng Zhang , Junjie Yang , Hai Zhao

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

We introduce a neural reading comprehension model that integrates external commonsense knowledge, encoded as a key-value memory, in a cloze-style setting. Instead of relying only on document-to-question interaction or discrete features as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Todor Mihaylov , Anette Frank

Machine comprehension of texts longer than a single sentence often requires coreference resolution. However, most current reading comprehension benchmarks do not contain complex coreferential phenomena and hence fail to evaluate the ability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Pradeep Dasigi , Nelson F. Liu , Ana Marasović , Noah A. Smith , Matt Gardner

This paper introduces DuReader, a new large-scale, open-domain Chinese ma- chine reading comprehension (MRC) dataset, designed to address real-world MRC. DuReader has three advantages over previous MRC datasets: (1) data sources: questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Wei He , Kai Liu , Jing Liu , Yajuan Lyu , Shiqi Zhao , Xinyan Xiao , Yuan Liu , Yizhong Wang , Hua Wu , Qiaoqiao She , Xuan Liu , Tian Wu , Haifeng Wang

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

Multilingual pre-trained models could leverage the training data from a rich source language (such as English) to improve performance on low resource languages. However, the transfer quality for multilingual Machine Reading Comprehension…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Fei Yuan , Linjun Shou , Xuanyu Bai , Ming Gong , Yaobo Liang , Nan Duan , Yan Fu , Daxin Jiang

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) has become enormously popular recently and has attracted a lot of attention. However, existing reading comprehension datasets are mostly in English. To add diversity in reading comprehension datasets, in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Yiming Cui , Ting Liu , Zhipeng Chen , Wentao Ma , Shijin Wang , Guoping Hu

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

Reading comprehension (RC) is a challenging task that requires synthesis of information across sentences and multiple turns of reasoning. Using a state-of-the-art RC model, we empirically investigate the performance of single-turn and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Yelong Shen , Xiaodong Liu , Kevin Duh , Jianfeng Gao