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Commonsense Reading Comprehension (CRC) is a significantly challenging task, aiming at choosing the right answer for the question referring to a narrative passage, which may require commonsense knowledge inference. Most of the existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Chunhua Liu , Yan Zhao , Qingyi Si , Haiou Zhang , Bohan Li , Dong Yu

Multiple-choice Reading Comprehension (MCRC) models aim to select the correct answer from a set of candidate options for a given question. However, they typically lack the ability to explain the reasoning behind their choices. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Trung Tien Cao , Lam Minh Thai , Nghia Hieu Nguyen , Duc-Vu Nguyen , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen

Effective recommender systems play a crucial role in accurately capturing user and item attributes that mirror individual preferences. Some existing recommendation techniques have started to shift their focus towards modeling various types…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Xiang Li , Chaofan Fu , Zhongying Zhao , Guanjie Zheng , Chao Huang , Yanwei Yu , Junyu Dong

This paper focuses on how to take advantage of external relational knowledge to improve machine reading comprehension (MRC) with multi-task learning. Most of the traditional methods in MRC assume that the knowledge used to get the correct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Jiangnan Xia , Chen Wu , Ming Yan

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

Multi-choice Machine Reading Comprehension (MMRC) aims to select the correct answer from a set of options based on a given passage and question. The existing methods employ the pre-trained language model as the encoder, share and transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Chenhao Cui , Yufan Jiang , Shuangzhi Wu , Zhoujun Li

In this paper, we present a novel approach to machine reading comprehension for the MS-MARCO dataset. Unlike the SQuAD dataset that aims to answer a question with exact text spans in a passage, the MS-MARCO dataset defines the task as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Chuanqi Tan , Furu Wei , Nan Yang , Bowen Du , Weifeng Lv , Ming Zhou

Question answering is one of the most important and difficult applications at the border of information retrieval and natural language processing, especially when we talk about complex science questions which require some form of inference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-08 George-Sebastian Pirtoaca , Traian Rebedea , Stefan Ruseti

While sophisticated neural-based techniques have been developed in reading comprehension, most approaches model the answer in an independent manner, ignoring its relations with other answer candidates. This problem can be even worse in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Zhen Wang , Jiachen Liu , Xinyan Xiao , Yajuan Lyu , Tian Wu

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

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

We propose a novel, path-based reasoning approach for the multi-hop reading comprehension task where a system needs to combine facts from multiple passages to answer a question. Although inspired by multi-hop reasoning over knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Souvik Kundu , Tushar Khot , Ashish Sabharwal , Peter Clark

When evaluating an answer choice for Reading Comprehension task, other answer choices available for the question and the answers of related questions about the same paragraph often provide valuable information. In this paper, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Rajkumar Pujari , Dan Goldwasser

We propose a novel memory network model named Read-Write Memory Network (RWMN) to perform question and answering tasks for large-scale, multimodal movie story understanding. The key focus of our RWMN model is to design the read network and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Seil Na , Sangho Lee , Jisung Kim , Gunhee Kim

Visual question answering (VQA) requires joint comprehension of images and natural language questions, where many questions can't be directly or clearly answered from visual content but require reasoning from structured human knowledge with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Zhou Su , Chen Zhu , Yinpeng Dong , Dongqi Cai , Yurong Chen , Jianguo Li

Multi-hop reading comprehension across multiple documents attracts much attention recently. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to tackle this multi-hop reading comprehension problem. Inspired by human reasoning processing, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Zeyun Tang , Yongliang Shen , Xinyin Ma , Wei Xu , Jiale Yu , Weiming Lu

This paper presents a novel method to generate answers for non-extraction machine reading comprehension (MRC) tasks whose answers cannot be simply extracted as one span from the given passages. Using a pointer network-style extractive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Zhuosheng Zhang , Yiqing Zhang , Hai Zhao , Xi Zhou , Xiang Zhou

Multiple choice exams are widely used to assess candidates across a diverse range of domains and tasks. To moderate question quality, newly proposed questions often pass through pre-test evaluation stages before being deployed into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Adian Liusie , Vatsal Raina , Andrew Mullooly , Kate Knill , Mark J. F. Gales

Reading comprehension is a challenging task, especially when executed across longer or across multiple evidence documents, where the answer is likely to reoccur. Existing neural architectures typically do not scale to the entire evidence,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Swabha Swayamdipta , Ankur P. Parikh , Tom Kwiatkowski

SemEval task 4 aims to find a proper option from multiple candidates to resolve the task of machine reading comprehension. Most existing approaches propose to concat question and option together to form a context-aware model. However, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Zhixiang Chen , Yikun Lei , Pai Liu , Guibing Guo