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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

Multiple-choice Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) is an important and challenging Natural Language Understanding (NLU) task, in which a machine must choose the answer to a question from a set of choices, with the question placed in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Hui Wan

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. (source unclear) Machine learning and deep learning are the technologies of the day for developing intelligent automatic systems. However, a key hurdle for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Fayyaz Minhas , Amina Asif , Asa Ben-Hur

We present a new dataset for machine comprehension in the medical domain. Our dataset uses clinical case reports with around 100,000 gap-filling queries about these cases. We apply several baselines and state-of-the-art neural readers to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Simon Šuster , Walter Daelemans

In this paper, we study machine reading comprehension (MRC) on long texts, where a model takes as inputs a lengthy document and a question and then extracts a text span from the document as an answer. State-of-the-art models tend to use a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Hongyu Gong , Yelong Shen , Dian Yu , Jianshu Chen , Dong Yu

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

Multi-choice machine reading comprehension (MRC) requires models to choose the correct answer from candidate options given a passage and a question. Our research focuses dialogue-based MRC, where the passages are multi-turn dialogues. It…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Junlong Li , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

Machine learning is increasingly transforming various scientific fields, enabled by advancements in computational power and access to large data sets from experiments and simulations. As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to grow in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Sebastian Johann Wetzel , Seungwoong Ha , Raban Iten , Miriam Klopotek , Ziming Liu

Achieving human-level performance on some of the Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) datasets is no longer challenging with the help of powerful Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs). However, the internal mechanism of these artifacts remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yiming Cui , Wei-Nan Zhang , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu , Zhigang Chen , Shijin Wang

Multiple-choice reading comprehension (MCRC) is the task of selecting the correct answer from multiple options given a question and an article. Existing MCRC models typically either read each option independently or compute a fixed-length…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Qiu Ran , Peng Li , Weiwei Hu , Jie Zhou

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

Adversarial training (AT) as a regularization method has proved its effectiveness in various tasks, such as image classification and text classification. Though there are successful applications of AT in many tasks of natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Ziqing Yang , Yiming Cui , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu , Shijin Wang , Guoping Hu

Machine translation (MT) is a technique that leverages computers to translate human languages automatically. Nowadays, neural machine translation (NMT) which models direct mapping between source and target languages with deep neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Current speech translation systems, while having achieved impressive accuracies, are rather static in their behavior and do not adapt to real-world situations in ways human interpreters do. In order to improve their practical usefulness and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Matthias Sperber , Maureen de Seyssel , Jiajun Bao , Matthias Paulik

In recent years, there has been an exponential growth in the number of complex documents and texts that require a deeper understanding of machine learning methods to be able to accurately classify texts in many applications. Many machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Kamran Kowsari , Kiana Jafari Meimandi , Mojtaba Heidarysafa , Sanjana Mendu , Laura E. Barnes , Donald E. Brown

One of the major objectives of Artificial Intelligence is to design learning algorithms that are executed on a general purposes computational machines such as human brain. Neural Turing Machine (NTM) is a step towards realizing such a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Soroor Malekmohammadi Faradonbeh , Faramarz Safi-Esfahani

Continual Machine Reading Comprehension aims to incrementally learn from a continuous data stream across time without access the previous seen data, which is crucial for the development of real-world MRC systems. However, it is a great…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Zhijing Wu , Hua Xu , Jingliang Fang , Kai Gao

This paper summarizes some of the technical background, research ideas, and possible development strategies for achieving machine common sense. Machine common sense has long been a critical-but-missing component of Artificial Intelligence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-18 David Gunning

We illustrate the use of machine learning techniques to analyze, structure, maintain, and evolve a large online corpus of academic literature. An emerging field of research can be identified as part of an existing corpus, permitting the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-11-10 Paul Ginsparg , Paul Houle , Thorsten Joachims , Jae-Hoon Sul

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) with multiple-choice questions requires the machine to read given passage and select the correct answer among several candidates. In this paper, we propose a novel approach called Convolutional Spatial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Zhipeng Chen , Yiming Cui , Wentao Ma , Shijin Wang , Guoping Hu