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Existing question answering systems can only predict answers without explicit reasoning processes, which hinder their explainability and make us overestimate their ability of understanding and reasoning over natural language. In this work,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Ran Wang , Kun Tao , Dingjie Song , Zhilong Zhang , Xiao Ma , Xi'ao Su , Xinyu Dai

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

Multi-hop Machine reading comprehension is a challenging task with aim of answering a question based on disjoint pieces of information across the different passages. The evaluation metrics and datasets are a vital part of multi-hop MRC…

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

Reading comprehension (RC)---in contrast to information retrieval---requires integrating information and reasoning about events, entities, and their relations across a full document. Question answering is conventionally used to assess RC…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Tomáš Kočiský , Jonathan Schwarz , Phil Blunsom , Chris Dyer , Karl Moritz Hermann , Gábor Melis , Edward Grefenstette

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

Reading comprehension is one of the crucial tasks for furthering research in natural language understanding. A lot of diverse reading comprehension datasets have recently been introduced to study various phenomena in natural language,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Dheeru Dua , Ananth Gottumukkala , Alon Talmor , Sameer Singh , Matt Gardner

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

Reading strategies have been shown to improve comprehension levels, especially for readers lacking adequate prior knowledge. Just as the process of knowledge accumulation is time-consuming for human readers, it is resource-demanding to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Kai Sun , Dian Yu , Dong Yu , Claire Cardie

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

We present an accurate and interpretable method for answer extraction in machine reading comprehension that is reminiscent of case-based reasoning (CBR) from classical AI. Our method (CBR-MRC) builds upon the hypothesis that contextualized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Dung Thai , Dhruv Agarwal , Mudit Chaudhary , Wenlong Zhao , Rajarshi Das , Manzil Zaheer , Jay-Yoon Lee , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Andrew McCallum

Machine reading comprehension have been intensively studied in recent years, and neural network-based models have shown dominant performances. In this paper, we present a Sogou Machine Reading Comprehension (SMRC) toolkit that can be used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Jindou Wu , Yunlun Yang , Chao Deng , Hongyi Tang , Bingning Wang , Haoze Sun , Ting Yao , Qi Zhang

Inspired by conversational reading comprehension (CRC), this paper studies a novel task of leveraging reviews as a source to build an agent that can answer multi-turn questions from potential consumers of online businesses. We first build a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Hu Xu , Bing Liu , Lei Shu , Philip S. Yu

Multiple-Choice Reading Comprehension (MCRC) requires the model to read the passage and question, and select the correct answer among the given options. Recent state-of-the-art models have achieved impressive performance on multiple MCRC…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Chenglei Si , Shuohang Wang , Min-Yen Kan , Jing Jiang

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

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

Enabling a machine to read and comprehend the natural language documents so that it can answer some questions remains an elusive challenge. In recent years, the popularity of deep learning and the establishment of large-scale datasets have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Boyu Qiu , Xu Chen , Jungang Xu , Yingfei Sun

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

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is a popular multimodal task that aims to accurately detect target objects within a single image based on a given textual expression. However, due to the limitations of earlier models, traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Guanghao Jin , Jingpei Wu , Tianpei Guo , Yiyi Niu , Weidong Zhou , Guoyang Liu

Teaching machines to read natural language documents remains an elusive challenge. Machine reading systems can be tested on their ability to answer questions posed on the contents of documents that they have seen, but until now large scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Karl Moritz Hermann , Tomáš Kočiský , Edward Grefenstette , Lasse Espeholt , Will Kay , Mustafa Suleyman , Phil Blunsom

Multi-choice Machine Reading Comprehension (MMRC) aims to select the correct answer from a set of options based on a given passage and question. Due to task specific of MMRC, it is non-trivial to transfer knowledge from other MRC tasks such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Yufan Jiang , Shuangzhi Wu , Jing Gong , Yahui Cheng , Peng Meng , Weiliang Lin , Zhibo Chen , Mu li