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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

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

In spite of much recent research in the area, it is still unclear whether subject-area question-answering data is useful for machine reading comprehension (MRC) tasks. In this paper, we investigate this question. We collect a large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Dian Yu , Kai Sun , Dong Yu , Claire Cardie

Conversational Machine Reading (CMR) aims at answering questions in a complicated manner. Machine needs to answer questions through interactions with users based on given rule document, user scenario and dialogue history, and ask questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Siru Ouyang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) aims to extract answers to questions given a passage. It has been widely studied recently, especially in open domains. However, few efforts have been made on closed-domain MRC, mainly due to the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Taolin Zhang , Chengyu Wang , Minghui Qiu , Bite Yang , Xiaofeng He , Jun Huang

This paper presents a systematic review of benchmarks and approaches for explainability in Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC). We present how the representation and inference challenges evolved and the steps which were taken to tackle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Mokanarangan Thayaparan , Marco Valentino , André Freitas

Conversational context understanding aims to recognize the real intention of user from the conversation history, which is critical for building the dialogue system. However, the multi-turn conversation understanding in open domain is still…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Shuangyong Song , Chao Wang , Qianqian Xie , Xinxing Zu , Huan Chen , Haiqing Chen

Conversational machine comprehension requires deep understanding of the dialogue flow, and the prior work proposed FlowQA to implicitly model the context representations in reasoning for better understanding. This paper proposes to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Yi-Ting Yeh , Yun-Nung Chen

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

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) has become enormously popular recently and has attracted a lot of attention. However, existing reading comprehension datasets are mostly in English. To add diversity in reading comprehension datasets, in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Yiming Cui , Ting Liu , Zhipeng Chen , Wentao Ma , Shijin Wang , Guoping Hu

Understanding open-domain text is one of the primary challenges in natural language processing (NLP). Machine comprehension benchmarks evaluate the system's ability to understand text based on the text content only. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Wenpeng Yin , Sebastian Ebert , Hinrich Schütze

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

In recent years, cross-modal reasoning (CMR), the process of understanding and reasoning across different modalities, has emerged as a pivotal area with applications spanning from multimedia analysis to healthcare diagnostics. As the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Dizhan Xue , Shengsheng Qian , Zuyi Zhou , Changsheng Xu

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

Dialogue related Machine Reading Comprehension requires language models to effectively decouple and model multi-turn dialogue passages. As a dialogue development goes after the intentions of participants, its topic may not keep constant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xinbei Ma , Yi Xu , Hai Zhao , Zhuosheng Zhang

Recently, various neural models for multi-party conversation (MPC) have achieved impressive improvements on a variety of tasks such as addressee recognition, speaker identification and response prediction. However, these existing methods on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Jia-Chen Gu , Chongyang Tao , Zhen-Hua Ling , Can Xu , Xiubo Geng , Daxin Jiang

Reading comprehension (RC) is a challenging task that requires synthesis of information across sentences and multiple turns of reasoning. Using a state-of-the-art RC model, we empirically investigate the performance of single-turn and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Yelong Shen , Xiaodong Liu , Kevin Duh , Jianfeng Gao

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) is an AI challenge that requires machine to determine the correct answers to questions based on a given passage. MRC systems must not only answer question when necessary but also distinguish when no…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Zhuosheng Zhang , Junjie Yang , Hai Zhao

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

Query understanding in Conversational Information Seeking (CIS) involves accurately interpreting user intent through context-aware interactions. This includes resolving ambiguities, refining queries, and adapting to evolving information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yifei Yuan , Zahra Abbasiantaeb , Yang Deng , Mohammad Aliannejadi