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Recently, many attention-based deep neural networks have emerged and achieved state-of-the-art performance in environmental sound classification. The essence of attention mechanism is assigning contribution weights on different parts of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-06 You Wang , Chuyao Feng , David V. Anderson

Answer validation in machine reading comprehension (MRC) consists of verifying an extracted answer against an input context and question pair. Previous work has looked at re-assessing the "answerability" of the question given the extracted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Revanth Gangi Reddy , Md Arafat Sultan , Efsun Sarioglu Kayi , Rong Zhang , Vittorio Castelli , Avirup Sil

Generative machine reading comprehension (MRC) requires a model to generate well-formed answers. For this type of MRC, answer generation method is crucial to the model performance. However, generative models, which are supposed to be the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Junjie Yang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

Despite recent work in Reading Comprehension (RC), progress has been mostly limited to English due to the lack of large-scale datasets in other languages. In this work, we introduce the first RC system for languages without RC training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Akari Asai , Akiko Eriguchi , Kazuma Hashimoto , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

Convolutional Neural Networks have achieved impressive results in various tasks, but interpreting the internal mechanism is a challenging problem. To tackle this problem, we exploit a multi-channel attention mechanism in feature space. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Masanari Kimura , Masayuki Tanaka

Multimodal features play a key role in wearable sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR). Selecting the most salient features adaptively is a promising way to maximize the effectiveness of multimodal sensor data. In this regard, we…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Kaixuan Chen , Lina Yao , Xianzhi Wang , Dalin Zhang , Tao Gu , Zhiwen Yu , Zheng Yang

Video summarization is among challenging tasks in computer vision, which aims at identifying highlight frames or shots over a lengthy video input. In this paper, we propose an novel attention-based framework for video summarization with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Yen-Ting Liu , Yu-Jhe Li , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Due to the severe lack of labeled data, existing methods of medical visual question answering usually rely on transfer learning to obtain effective image feature representation and use cross-modal fusion of visual and linguistic features to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Haifan Gong , Guanqi Chen , Sishuo Liu , Yizhou Yu , Guanbin Li

The attention mechanism plays an important role in the machine reading comprehension (MRC) model. Here, we describe a pipeline for building an MRC model with a pretrained language model and visualizing the effect of each attention zone in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yiming Cui , Wei-Nan Zhang , Ting Liu

We propose a novel neural attention architecture to tackle machine comprehension tasks, such as answering Cloze-style queries with respect to a document. Unlike previous models, we do not collapse the query into a single vector, instead we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-10 Alessandro Sordoni , Philip Bachman , Adam Trischler , Yoshua Bengio

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

Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR) remains a significant yet challenging research problem in the realm of visual reasoning. A VCR model generally aims at answering a textual question regarding an image, followed by the rationale prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhenyang Li , Yangyang Guo , Kejie Wang , Fan Liu , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

In this paper, we investigate the tendency of end-to-end neural Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) models to match shallow patterns rather than perform inference-oriented reasoning on RC benchmarks. We aim to test the ability of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Soumya Wadhwa , Varsha Embar , Matthias Grabmair , Eric Nyberg

Multi-choice reading comprehension is a challenging task that requires complex reasoning procedure. Given passage and question, a correct answer need to be selected from a set of candidate answers. In this paper, we propose \textbf{D}ual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Shuailiang Zhang , Hai Zhao , Yuwei Wu , Zhuosheng Zhang , Xi Zhou , Xiang Zhou

Self-attention network (SAN) has recently attracted increasing interest due to its fully parallelized computation and flexibility in modeling dependencies. It can be further enhanced with multi-headed attention mechanism by allowing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Baosong Yang , Longyue Wang , Derek F. Wong , Lidia S. Chao , Zhaopeng Tu

Given a question-image input, the Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR) model can predict an answer with the corresponding rationale, which requires inference ability from the real world. The VCR task, which calls for exploiting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Xuejiao Tang , Wenbin Zhang

Understanding open-domain text is one of the primary challenges in natural language processing (NLP). Machine comprehension benchmarks evaluate the system's ability to understand text based on the text content only. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Wenpeng Yin , Sebastian Ebert , Hinrich Schütze

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

In this paper we propose a neural network model with a novel Sequential Attention layer that extends soft attention by assigning weights to words in an input sequence in a way that takes into account not just how well that word matches a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Sebastian Brarda , Philip Yeres , Samuel R. Bowman

Multi-view learning can cover all features of data samples more comprehensively, so multi-view learning has attracted widespread attention. Traditional subspace clustering methods, such as sparse subspace clustering (SSC) and low-ranking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Jian-wei Liu , Hao-jie Xie , Run-kun Lu , Xiong-lin Luo