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This study aims at solving the Machine Reading Comprehension problem where questions have to be answered given a context passage. The challenge is to develop a computationally faster model which will have improved inference time. State of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Debajyoti Chatterjee

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

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) is a challenging Natural Language Processing(NLP) research field with wide real-world applications. The great progress of this field in recent years is mainly due to the emergence of large-scale datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Changchang Zeng , Shaobo Li , Qin Li , Jie Hu , Jianjun Hu

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 has been an interesting and challenging task in recent years, with the purpose of extracting useful information from texts. To attain the computer ability to understand the reading text and answer relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Son T. Luu , Khoi Trong Hoang , Tuong Quang Pham , Kiet Van Nguyen , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen

Although Vietnamese is the 17th most popular native-speaker language in the world, there are not many research studies on Vietnamese machine reading comprehension (MRC), the task of understanding a text and answering questions about it. One…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Kiet Van Nguyen , Khiem Vinh Tran , Son T. Luu , Anh Gia-Tuan Nguyen , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen

Understanding narratives requires reading between the lines, which in turn, requires interpreting the likely causes and effects of events, even when they are not mentioned explicitly. In this paper, we introduce Cosmos QA, a large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Lifu Huang , Ronan Le Bras , Chandra Bhagavatula , Yejin Choi

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

We present NewsQA, a challenging machine comprehension dataset of over 100,000 human-generated question-answer pairs. Crowdworkers supply questions and answers based on a set of over 10,000 news articles from CNN, with answers consisting of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-08 Adam Trischler , Tong Wang , Xingdi Yuan , Justin Harris , Alessandro Sordoni , Philip Bachman , Kaheer Suleman

The rapid development of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) raises the question of how they compare to human performance. While existing datasets often feature synthetic or overly simplistic tasks, some models have already surpassed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zichen Zhu , Yang Xu , Lu Chen , Jingkai Yang , Yichuan Ma , Yiming Sun , Hailin Wen , Jiaqi Liu , Jinyu Cai , Yingzi Ma , Situo Zhang , Zihan Zhao , Liangtai Sun , Kai Yu

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) is a challenging natural language processing (NLP) task. Recently, the emergence of pre-trained models (PTM) has brought this research field into a new era, in which the training objective plays a key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Changchang. Zeng , Shaobo. Li

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

We present XCMRC, the first public cross-lingual language understanding (XLU) benchmark which aims to test machines on their cross-lingual reading comprehension ability. To be specific, XCMRC is a Cross-lingual Cloze-style Machine Reading…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Pengyuan Liu , Yuning Deng , Chenghao Zhu , Han Hu

Conversational Machine Comprehension (CMC), a research track in conversational AI, expects the machine to understand an open-domain natural language text and thereafter engage in a multi-turn conversation to answer questions related to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Somil Gupta , Bhanu Pratap Singh Rawat , Hong Yu

Multimodal machine translation (MMT) is a challenging task that seeks to improve translation quality by incorporating visual information. However, recent studies have indicated that the visual information provided by existing MMT datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Xinyu Ma , Xuebo Liu , Derek F. Wong , Jun Rao , Bei Li , Liang Ding , Lidia S. Chao , Dacheng Tao , Min Zhang

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) is a sub-field in natural language processing that aims to assist computers understand unstructured texts and then answer questions related to them. In practice, the conversation is an essential way to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Son T. Luu , Mao Nguyen Bui , Loi Duc Nguyen , Khiem Vinh Tran , Kiet Van Nguyen , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen

Most existing multi-document machine reading comprehension models mainly focus on understanding the interactions between the input question and documents, but ignore following two kinds of understandings. First, to understand the semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Feiliang Ren , Yongkang Liu , Bochao Li , Zhibo Wang , Yu Guo , Shilei Liu , Huimin Wu , Jiaqi Wang , Chunchao Liu , Bingchao Wang

Recent studies on machine reading comprehension have focused on text-level understanding but have not yet reached the level of human understanding of the visual layout and content of real-world documents. In this study, we introduce a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Ryota Tanaka , Kyosuke Nishida , Sen Yoshida

As the capabilities of large multimodal models (LMMs) continue to advance, evaluating the performance of LMMs emerges as an increasing need. Additionally, there is an even larger gap in evaluating the advanced knowledge and reasoning…