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Remarkable success has been achieved in the last few years on some limited machine reading comprehension (MRC) tasks. However, it is still difficult to interpret the predictions of existing MRC models. In this paper, we focus on extracting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Hai Wang , Dian Yu , Kai Sun , Jianshu Chen , Dong Yu , David McAllester , Dan Roth

Cross-lingual Machine Reading Comprehension (CLMRC) remains a challenging problem due to the lack of large-scale annotated datasets in low-source languages, such as Arabic, Hindi, and Vietnamese. Many previous approaches use translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Junhao Liu , Linjun Shou , Jian Pei , Ming Gong , Min Yang , Daxin Jiang

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

The development of natural language processing (NLP) in general and machine reading comprehension in particular has attracted the great attention of the research community. In recent years, there are a few datasets for machine reading…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Phong Nguyen-Thuan Do , Nhat Duy Nguyen , Tin Van Huynh , Kiet Van Nguyen , Anh Gia-Tuan Nguyen , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen

Machine reading comprehension (MRC), which requires a machine to answer questions based on a given context, has attracted increasing attention with the incorporation of various deep-learning techniques over the past few years. Although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Shanshan Liu , Xin Zhang , Sheng Zhang , Hui Wang , Weiming Zhang

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) has become one of the essential tasks in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) as it is often included in several NLU benchmarks (Liang et al., 2020; Wilie et al., 2020). However, most MRC datasets only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Rifki Afina Putri , Alice Oh

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

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

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

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

Recent studies report that many machine reading comprehension (MRC) models can perform closely to or even better than humans on benchmark datasets. However, existing works indicate that many MRC models may learn shortcuts to outwit these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Yuxuan Lai , Chen Zhang , Yansong Feng , Quzhe Huang , Dongyan Zhao

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) has received considerable attention as a benchmark for natural language understanding. However, the conventional task design of MRC lacks explainability beyond the model interpretation, i.e., reading…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Saku Sugawara , Pontus Stenetorp , Akiko Aizawa

With the blooming of various Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs), Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) has embraced significant improvements on various benchmarks and even surpass human performances. However, the existing works only target on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Yiming Cui , Ting Liu , Shijin Wang , Guoping Hu

Web search is an essential way for humans to obtain information, but it's still a great challenge for machines to understand the contents of web pages. In this paper, we introduce the task of structural reading comprehension (SRC) on web.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Xingyu Chen , Zihan Zhao , Lu Chen , Danyang Zhang , Jiabao Ji , Ao Luo , Yuxuan Xiong , Kai Yu

Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction for Chinese literature text is regarded as the highly difficult problem, partially because of the lack of tagging sets. In this paper, we build a discourse-level dataset from hundreds of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Jingjing Xu , Ji Wen , Xu Sun , Qi Su

One of the emerging research trends in natural language understanding is machine reading comprehension (MRC) which is the task to find answers to human questions based on textual data. Existing Vietnamese datasets for MRC research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Kiet Van Nguyen , Son Quoc Tran , Luan Thanh Nguyen , Tin Van Huynh , Son T. Luu , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen

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

We introduce MCScript2.0, a machine comprehension corpus for the end-to-end evaluation of script knowledge. MCScript2.0 contains approx. 20,000 questions on approx. 3,500 texts, crowdsourced based on a new collection process that results in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Simon Ostermann , Michael Roth , Manfred Pinkal

Chinese Spelling Correction (CSC) is gaining increasing attention due to its promise of automatically detecting and correcting spelling errors in Chinese texts. Despite its extensive use in many applications, like search engines and optical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Wangjie Jiang , Zhihao Ye , Zijing Ou , Ruihui Zhao , Jianguang Zheng , Yi Liu , Siheng Li , Bang Liu , Yujiu Yang , Yefeng Zheng

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…

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