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Machine Comprehension (MC) is a challenging task in Natural Language Processing field, which aims to guide the machine to comprehend a passage and answer the given question. Many existing approaches on MC task are suffering the inefficiency…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Zheqian Chen , Rongqin Yang , Bin Cao , Zhou Zhao , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He

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

We present the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD), a new reading comprehension dataset consisting of 100,000+ questions posed by crowdworkers on a set of Wikipedia articles, where the answer to each question is a segment of text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Pranav Rajpurkar , Jian Zhang , Konstantin Lopyrev , Percy Liang

Web question answering (QA) has become an indispensable component in modern search systems, which can significantly improve users' search experience by providing a direct answer to users' information need. This could be achieved by applying…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Lixin Su , Jiafeng Guo , Yixing Fan , Yanyan Lan , Xueqi Cheng

This study considers the task of machine reading at scale (MRS) wherein, given a question, a system first performs the information retrieval (IR) task of finding relevant passages in a knowledge source and then carries out the reading…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Kyosuke Nishida , Itsumi Saito , Atsushi Otsuka , Hisako Asano , Junji Tomita

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) is the task that asks a machine to answer questions based on a given context. For Chinese MRC, due to the non-literal and non-compositional semantic characteristics, Chinese idioms pose unique challenges…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Siyu Long , Ran Wang , Kun Tao , Jiali Zeng , Xin-Yu Dai

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

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) is the task of answering a question over a paragraph of text. While neural MRC systems gain popularity and achieve noticeable performance, issues are being raised with the methodology used to establish…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Viktor Schlegel , Marco Valentino , André Freitas , Goran Nenadic , Riza Batista-Navarro

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) holds a pivotal role in shaping Medical Question Answering Systems (QAS) and transforming the landscape of accessing and applying medical information. However, the inherent challenges in the medical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Jimenez Eladio , Hao Wu

This paper presents the ReCO, a human-curated ChineseReading Comprehension dataset on Opinion. The questions in ReCO are opinion based queries issued to the commercial search engine. The passages are provided by the crowdworkers who extract…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-23 BingningWang , Ting Yao , Qi Zhang , Jingfang Xu , Xiaochuan Wang

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) is a crucial task in natural language processing and has achieved remarkable advancements. However, most of the neural MRC models are still far from robust and fail to generalize well in real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Hongxuan Tang , Hongyu Li , Jing Liu , Yu Hong , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Humans often have to read multiple documents to address their information needs. However, most existing reading comprehension (RC) tasks only focus on questions for which the contexts provide all the information required to answer them,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 James Ferguson , Matt Gardner , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Tushar Khot , Pradeep Dasigi

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) on real web data usually requires the machine to answer a question by analyzing multiple passages retrieved by search engine. Compared with MRC on a single passage, multi-passage MRC is more challenging,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Yizhong Wang , Kai Liu , Jing Liu , Wei He , Yajuan Lyu , Hua Wu , Sujian Li , Haifeng Wang

Humans gather information by engaging in conversations involving a series of interconnected questions and answers. For machines to assist in information gathering, it is therefore essential to enable them to answer conversational questions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Siva Reddy , Danqi Chen , Christopher D. Manning

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

We present the results of the Machine Reading for Question Answering (MRQA) 2019 shared task on evaluating the generalization capabilities of reading comprehension systems. In this task, we adapted and unified 18 distinct question answering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Adam Fisch , Alon Talmor , Robin Jia , Minjoon Seo , Eunsol Choi , Danqi Chen

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) aims to teach machines to read and comprehend human languages, which is a long-standing goal of natural language processing (NLP). With the burst of deep neural networks and the evolution of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao , Rui Wang

Open-domain Question Answering (OpenQA) is an important task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), which aims to answer a question in the form of natural language based on large-scale unstructured documents. Recently, there has been a surge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Fengbin Zhu , Wenqiang Lei , Chao Wang , Jianming Zheng , Soujanya Poria , Tat-Seng Chua

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) is a long-standing topic in natural language processing (NLP). The MRC task aims to answer a question based on the given context. Recently studies focus on multi-hop MRC which is a more challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Azade Mohammadi , Reza Ramezani , Ahmad Baraani

A challenge in creating a dataset for machine reading comprehension (MRC) is to collect questions that require a sophisticated understanding of language to answer beyond using superficial cues. In this work, we investigate what makes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Saku Sugawara , Kentaro Inui , Satoshi Sekine , Akiko Aizawa