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This paper proposes dynamic chunk reader (DCR), an end-to-end neural reading comprehension (RC) model that is able to extract and rank a set of answer candidates from a given document to answer questions. DCR is able to predict answers of…

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To provide a survey on the existing tasks and models in Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC), this report reviews: 1) the dataset collection and performance evaluation of some representative simple-reasoning and complex-reasoning MRC tasks;…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Chao Wang

Scientific literature serves as a high-quality corpus, supporting a lot of Natural Language Processing (NLP) research. However, existing datasets are centered around the English language, which restricts the development of Chinese…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Yudong Li , Yuqing Zhang , Zhe Zhao , Linlin Shen , Weijie Liu , Weiquan Mao , Hui Zhang

Though the community has made great progress on Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) task, most of the previous works are solving English-based MRC problems, and there are few efforts on other languages mainly due to the lack of large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Yiming Cui , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu , Bing Qin , Shijin Wang , Guoping Hu

Over 97 million people speak Vietnamese as their native language in the world. However, there are few research studies on machine reading comprehension (MRC) for Vietnamese, the task of understanding a text and answering questions related…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Kiet Van Nguyen , Duc-Vu Nguyen , Anh Gia-Tuan Nguyen , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen

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

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

Deep learning based natural language processing model is proven powerful, but need large-scale dataset. Due to the significant gap between the real-world tasks and existing Chinese corpus, in this paper, we introduce a large-scale corpus of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Jianyu Zhao , Zhuoran Ji

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) is a task that requires machine to understand natural language and answer questions by reading a document. It is the core of automatic response technology such as chatbots and automatized customer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Seungyoung Lim , Myungji Kim , Jooyoul Lee

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

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

Vietnamese, the 20th most spoken language with over 102 million native speakers, lacks robust resources for key natural language processing tasks such as text segmentation and machine reading comprehension (MRC). To address this gap, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Toan Nguyen Hai , Ha Nguyen Viet , Truong Quan Xuan , Duc Do Minh

In this paper, we present DuReader_retrieval, a large-scale Chinese dataset for passage retrieval. DuReader_retrieval contains more than 90K queries and over 8M unique passages from a commercial search engine. To alleviate the shortcomings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Yifu Qiu , Hongyu Li , Yingqi Qu , Ying Chen , Qiaoqiao She , Jing Liu , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

We present a new dataset for machine comprehension in the medical domain. Our dataset uses clinical case reports with around 100,000 gap-filling queries about these cases. We apply several baselines and state-of-the-art neural readers to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Simon Šuster , Walter Daelemans

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

We present XCMRC, the first public cross-lingual language understanding (XLU) benchmark which aims to test machines on their cross-lingual reading comprehension ability. To be specific, XCMRC is a Cross-lingual Cloze-style Machine Reading…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Pengyuan Liu , Yuning Deng , Chenghao Zhu , Han Hu

Ancient Chinese character recognition is a core capability for cultural heritage digitization, yet real-world workflows are inherently non-stationary: newly excavated materials are continuously onboarded, bringing new classes in different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuchuan Wu , Yinglian Zhu , Haiyang Yu , Ke Niu , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Chinese ancient documents, invaluable carriers of millennia of Chinese history and culture, hold rich knowledge across diverse fields but face challenges in digitization and understanding, i.e., traditional methods only scan images, while…

Measuring advances in retrieval requires test collections with relevance judgments that can faithfully distinguish systems. This paper presents NeuCLIRTech, an evaluation collection for cross-language retrieval over technical information.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Dawn Lawrie , James Mayfield , Eugene Yang , Andrew Yates , Sean MacAvaney , Ronak Pradeep , Scott Miller , Paul McNamee , Luca Soldaini

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