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Multi-choice Machine Reading Comprehension (MMRC) aims to select the correct answer from a set of options based on a given passage and question. The existing methods employ the pre-trained language model as the encoder, share and transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Chenhao Cui , Yufan Jiang , Shuangzhi Wu , Zhoujun Li

Most Reading Comprehension methods limit themselves to queries which can be answered using a single sentence, paragraph, or document. Enabling models to combine disjoint pieces of textual evidence would extend the scope of machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Johannes Welbl , Pontus Stenetorp , Sebastian Riedel

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

In this paper, we consider the problem of machine reading task when the questions are in the form of keywords, rather than natural language. In recent years, researchers have achieved significant success on machine reading comprehension…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Boyuan Pan , Hao Li , Zhou Zhao , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He

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 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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Yang Yu , Wei Zhang , Kazi Hasan , Mo Yu , Bing Xiang , Bowen Zhou

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

Multi-choice reading comprehension is a challenging task, which involves the matching between a passage and a question-answer pair. This paper proposes a new co-matching approach to this problem, which jointly models whether a passage can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Shuohang Wang , Mo Yu , Shiyu Chang , Jing Jiang

Humans often have to read multiple documents to address their information needs. However, most existing reading comprehension (RC) tasks only focus on questions for which the contexts provide all the information required to answer them,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 James Ferguson , Matt Gardner , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Tushar Khot , Pradeep Dasigi

Reading and understanding text is one important component in computer aided diagnosis in clinical medicine, also being a major research problem in the field of NLP. In this work, we introduce a question-answering task called MedQA to study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Xiao Zhang , Ji Wu , Zhiyang He , Xien Liu , Ying Su

Multi-hop reading comprehension across multiple documents attracts much attention recently. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to tackle this multi-hop reading comprehension problem. Inspired by human reasoning processing, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Zeyun Tang , Yongliang Shen , Xinyin Ma , Wei Xu , Jiale Yu , Weiming Lu

This study tackles generative reading comprehension (RC), which consists of answering questions based on textual evidence and natural language generation (NLG). We propose a multi-style abstractive summarization model for question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Kyosuke Nishida , Itsumi Saito , Kosuke Nishida , Kazutoshi Shinoda , Atsushi Otsuka , Hisako Asano , Junji Tomita

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

Conversational Machine Comprehension (CMC), a research track in conversational AI, expects the machine to understand an open-domain natural language text and thereafter engage in a multi-turn conversation to answer questions related to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Somil Gupta , Bhanu Pratap Singh Rawat , Hong Yu

Multi-hop reading comprehension requires not only the ability to reason over raw text but also the ability to combine multiple evidence. We propose a novel learning approach that helps language models better understand difficult multi-hop…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Xiao-Yu Guo , Yuan-Fang Li , Gholamreza Haffari

A large number of reading comprehension (RC) datasets has been created recently, but little analysis has been done on whether they generalize to one another, and the extent to which existing datasets can be leveraged for improving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Alon Talmor , Jonathan Berant

Reading Comprehension has received significant attention in recent years as high quality Question Answering (QA) datasets have become available. Despite state-of-the-art methods achieving strong overall accuracy, Multi-Hop (MH) reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Alex Long , Joel Mason , Alan Blair , Wei Wang

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

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

In multi-turn dialog, utterances do not always take the full form of sentences \cite{Carbonell1983DiscoursePA}, which naturally makes understanding the dialog context more difficult. However, it is essential to fully grasp the dialog…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xiuying Chen , Zhi Cui , Jiayi Zhang , Chen Wei , Jianwei Cui , Bin Wang , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan