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Existing analysis work in machine reading comprehension (MRC) is largely concerned with evaluating the capabilities of systems. However, the capabilities of datasets are not assessed for benchmarking language understanding precisely. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Saku Sugawara , Pontus Stenetorp , Kentaro Inui , Akiko Aizawa

Effective conversational search demands a deep understanding of user intent across multiple dialogue turns. Users frequently use abbreviations and shift topics in the middle of conversations, posing challenges for conventional retrievers.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Seunghan Yang , Juntae Lee , Jihwan Bang , Kyuhong Shim , Minsoo Kim , Simyung Chang

Interpretable multi-hop reading comprehension (RC) over multiple documents is a challenging problem because it demands reasoning over multiple information sources and explaining the answer prediction by providing supporting evidences. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Ming Tu , Kevin Huang , Guangtao Wang , Jing Huang , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

We present DREAM, the first dialogue-based multiple-choice reading comprehension dataset. Collected from English-as-a-foreign-language examinations designed by human experts to evaluate the comprehension level of Chinese learners of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Kai Sun , Dian Yu , Jianshu Chen , Dong Yu , Yejin Choi , Claire Cardie

Multi-turn conversation understanding is a major challenge for building intelligent dialogue systems. This work focuses on retrieval-based response matching for multi-turn conversation whose related work simply concatenates the conversation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Zhuosheng Zhang , Jiangtong Li , Pengfei Zhu , Hai Zhao , Gongshen Liu

Multiturn dialogue models aim to generate human-like responses by leveraging conversational context, consisting of utterances from previous exchanges. Existing methods often neglect the interactions between these utterances or treat all of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Akanksha Mehndiratta , Krishna Asawa

We propose a multi-task learning framework to learn a joint Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) model that can be applied to a wide range of MRC tasks in different domains. Inspired by recent ideas of data selection in machine translation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Yichong Xu , Xiaodong Liu , Yelong Shen , Jingjing Liu , Jianfeng Gao

Machine reading comprehension tasks require a machine reader to answer questions relevant to the given document. In this paper, we present the first free-form multiple-Choice Chinese machine reading Comprehension dataset (C^3), containing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Kai Sun , Dian Yu , Dong Yu , Claire Cardie

Previous research on multi-party dialogue generation has predominantly leveraged structural information inherent in dialogues to directly inform the generation process. However, the prevalence of colloquial expressions and incomplete…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zhiyu Cao , Peifeng Li , Qiaoming Zhu

Multi-role dialogue understanding comprises a wide range of diverse tasks such as question answering, act classification, dialogue summarization etc. While dialogue corpora are abundantly available, labeled data, for specific learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Tianyi Wang , Yating Zhang , Xiaozhong Liu , Changlong Sun , Qiong Zhang

Cross-lingual Machine Reading Comprehension (CLMRC) remains a challenging problem due to the lack of large-scale annotated datasets in low-source languages, such as Arabic, Hindi, and Vietnamese. Many previous approaches use translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Junhao Liu , Linjun Shou , Jian Pei , Ming Gong , Min Yang , Daxin Jiang

Large language models excel at following explicit instructions, but they often struggle with ambiguous or incomplete user requests, defaulting to verbose, generic responses instead of seeking clarification. We introduce InfoQuest, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Bryan L. M. de Oliveira , Luana G. B. Martins , Bruno Brandão , Luckeciano C. Melo

Asking clarifying questions in response to ambiguous or faceted queries has been recognized as a useful technique for various information retrieval systems, especially conversational search systems with limited bandwidth interfaces.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Helia Hashemi , Hamed Zamani , W. Bruce Croft

Response ranking in dialogues plays a crucial role in retrieval-based conversational systems. In a multi-turn dialogue, to capture the gist of a conversation, contextual information serves as essential knowledge to achieve this goal. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Zihao Wang , Eugene Agichtein , Jinho Choi

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

Generative machine reading comprehension (MRC) requires a model to generate well-formed answers. For this type of MRC, answer generation method is crucial to the model performance. However, generative models, which are supposed to be the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Junjie Yang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

Recent advances in deep neural networks, language modeling and language generation have introduced new ideas to the field of conversational agents. As a result, deep neural models such as sequence-to-sequence, Memory Networks, and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Momchil Hardalov , Ivan Koychev , Preslav Nakov

We study multi-turn response generation for open-domain dialogues. The existing state-of-the-art addresses the problem with deep neural architectures. While these models improved response quality, their complexity also hinders the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yufan Zhao , Can Xu , Wei Wu , Lei Yu

Despite the success of neural dialogue systems in achieving high performance on the leader-board, they cannot meet users' requirements in practice, due to their poor reasoning skills. The underlying reason is that most neural dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Xu Wang , Hainan Zhang , Shuai Zhao , Yanyan Zou , Hongshen Chen , Zhuoye Ding , Bo Cheng , Yanyan Lan

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