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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

To build a satisfying chatbot that has the ability of managing a goal-oriented multi-turn dialogue, accurate modeling of human conversation is crucial. In this paper we concentrate on the task of response selection for multi-turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Guozhen An , Mehrnoosh Shafiee , Davood Shamsi

Conversation is a subject of increasing interest in the social, cognitive, and computational sciences. Yet as conversational datasets continue to increase in size and complexity, researchers lack scalable methods to segment speech-to-text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Gus Cooney , Andrew Reece

Achieving human-level performance on some of the Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) datasets is no longer challenging with the help of powerful Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs). However, the internal mechanism of these artifacts remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yiming Cui , Wei-Nan Zhang , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu , Zhigang Chen , Shijin Wang

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

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

Conversational question answering (CQA) is a novel QA task that requires understanding of dialogue context. Different from traditional single-turn machine reading comprehension (MRC) tasks, CQA includes passage comprehension, coreference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Chenguang Zhu , Michael Zeng , Xuedong Huang

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) is an essential task in evaluating natural language understanding. Existing MRC datasets primarily assess specific aspects of reading comprehension (RC), lacking a comprehensive MRC benchmark. To fill…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Shengkun Ma , Hao Peng , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

In an attempt to improve overall translation quality, there has been an increasing focus on integrating more linguistic elements into Machine Translation (MT). While significant progress has been achieved, especially recently with neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Karin Sim Smith , Lucia Specia

Scientific machine reading comprehension (SMRC) aims to understand scientific texts through interactions with humans by given questions. As far as we know, there is only one dataset focused on exploring full-text scientific machine reading…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Xiao Zhang , Heqi Zheng , Yuxiang Nie , Heyan Huang , Xian-Ling Mao

This article proposes a new integration of linguistic anthropology and machine learning (ML) around convergent interests in both the underpinnings of language and making language technologies more socially responsible. While linguistic…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Graham M. Jones , Shai Satran , Arvind Satyanarayan

While text-based emotion recognition methods have achieved notable success, real-world dialogue systems often demand a more nuanced emotional understanding than any single modality can offer. Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Chengyan Wu , Yiqiang Cai , Yang Liu , Pengxu Zhu , Yun Xue , Ziwei Gong , Julia Hirschberg , Bolei Ma

Conversational Machine Reading (CMR) requires answering a user's initial question through multi-turn dialogue interactions based on a given document. Although there exist many effective methods, they largely neglected the alignment between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Yangyang Luo , Shiyu Tian , Caixia Yuan , Xiaojie Wang

Multi-turn dialogue reading comprehension aims to teach machines to read dialogue contexts and solve tasks such as response selection and answering questions. The major challenges involve noisy history contexts and especial prerequisites of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Zhuosheng Zhang , Junlong Li , Hai Zhao

As humans, we experience the world with all our senses or modalities (sound, sight, touch, smell, and taste). We use these modalities, particularly sight and touch, to convey and interpret specific meanings. Multimodal expressions are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Anirudh Sundar , Larry Heck

As a cornerstone of modern information access, search engines have become indispensable in everyday life. With the rapid advancements in AI and natural language processing (NLP) technologies, particularly large language models (LLMs),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Fengran Mo , Kelong Mao , Ziliang Zhao , Hongjin Qian , Haonan Chen , Yiruo Cheng , Xiaoxi Li , Yutao Zhu , Zhicheng Dou , Jian-Yun Nie

Conversational query clarification enables users to refine their search queries through interactive dialogue, improving search effectiveness. Traditional approaches rely on text-based clarifying questions, which often fail to capture…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Kimia Ramezan , Alireza Amiri Bavandpour , Yifei Yuan , Clemencia Siro , Mohammad Aliannejadi

Machine Comprehension (MC) is one of the core problems in natural language processing, requiring both understanding of the natural language and knowledge about the world. Rapid progress has been made since the release of several benchmark…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Boyuan Pan , Yazheng Yang , Hao Li , Zhou Zhao , Yueting Zhuang , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He

Achieving human-level performance on some of Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) datasets is no longer challenging with the help of powerful Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs). However, it is necessary to provide both answer prediction and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Yiming Cui , Ting Liu , Wanxiang Che , Zhigang Chen , Shijin Wang

Conversational modeling is an important task in natural language understanding and machine intelligence. Although previous approaches exist, they are often restricted to specific domains (e.g., booking an airline ticket) and require…

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