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Multi-hop reading comprehension (MHRC) requires not only to predict the correct answer span in the given passage, but also to provide a chain of supporting evidences for reasoning interpretability. It is natural to model such a process into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Bohong Wu , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

Answer validation in machine reading comprehension (MRC) consists of verifying an extracted answer against an input context and question pair. Previous work has looked at re-assessing the "answerability" of the question given the extracted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Revanth Gangi Reddy , Md Arafat Sultan , Efsun Sarioglu Kayi , Rong Zhang , Vittorio Castelli , Avirup Sil

Generating high-quality MCQs, especially those targeting diverse cognitive levels and incorporating common misconceptions into distractor design, is time-consuming and expertise-intensive, making manual creation impractical at scale.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Nicy Scaria , Silvester John Joseph Kennedy , Diksha Seth , Ananya Thakur , Deepak Subramani

Both humans and machines learn the meaning of unknown words through contextual information in a sentence, but not all contexts are equally helpful for learning. We introduce an effective method for capturing the level of contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Sungjin Nam , David Jurgens , Gwen Frishkoff , Kevyn Collins-Thompson

Intelligent personal assistant systems with either text-based or voice-based conversational interfaces are becoming increasingly popular around the world. Retrieval-based conversation models have the advantages of returning fluent and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Liu Yang , Minghui Qiu , Chen Qu , Jiafeng Guo , Yongfeng Zhang , W. Bruce Croft , Jun Huang , Haiqing Chen

As opaque decision systems are being increasingly adopted in almost any application field, issues about their lack of transparency and human readability are a concrete concern for end-users. Amongst existing proposals to associate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Federico Sabbatini , Roberta Calegari

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) aims to teach machines to read and comprehend human languages, which is a long-standing goal of natural language processing (NLP). With the burst of deep neural networks and the evolution of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao , Rui Wang

The recent work of Clark et al. introduces the AI2 Reasoning Challenge (ARC) and the associated ARC dataset that partitions open domain, complex science questions into an Easy Set and a Challenge Set. That paper includes an analysis of 100…

Multiple-choice question answering (MCQA) is often used to evaluate large language models (LLMs). To see if MCQA assesses LLMs as intended, we probe if LLMs can perform MCQA with choices-only prompts, where models must select the correct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Nishant Balepur , Abhilasha Ravichander , Rachel Rudinger

Understanding unstructured text is a major goal within natural language processing. Comprehension tests pose questions based on short text passages to evaluate such understanding. In this work, we investigate machine comprehension on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Adam Trischler , Zheng Ye , Xingdi Yuan , Jing He , Phillip Bachman , Kaheer Suleman

With the rapid evolution of multimodal large language models, the capacity to deeply understand and interpret human intentions has emerged as a critical capability, which demands detailed and thoughtful reasoning. In recent studies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Qize Yang , Shimin Yao , Weixuan Chen , Shenghao Fu , Detao Bai , Jiaxing Zhao , Boyuan Sun , Bowen Yin , Xihan Wei , Jingren Zhou

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), which requires a machine to answer questions based on a given context, has attracted increasing attention with the incorporation of various deep-learning techniques over the past few years. Although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Shanshan Liu , Xin Zhang , Sheng Zhang , Hui Wang , Weiming Zhang

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) is a challenging Natural Language Processing(NLP) research field with wide real-world applications. The great progress of this field in recent years is mainly due to the emergence of large-scale datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Changchang Zeng , Shaobo Li , Qin Li , Jie Hu , Jianjun Hu

Despite the recent success of automatic metrics for assessing translation quality, their application in evaluating the quality of machine-translated chats has been limited. Unlike more structured texts like news, chat conversations are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Sweta Agrawal , Amin Farajian , Patrick Fernandes , Ricardo Rei , André F. T. Martins

Knowledge-based recommendation models effectively alleviate the data sparsity issue leveraging the side information in the knowledge graph, and have achieved considerable performance. Nevertheless, the knowledge graphs used in previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Shenghao Yang , Weizhi Ma , Peijie Sun , Min Zhang , Qingyao Ai , Yiqun Liu , Mingchen Cai

A fundamental ability of humans is to utilize commonsense knowledge in language understanding and question answering. In recent years, many knowledge-enhanced Commonsense Question Answering (CQA) approaches have been proposed. However, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Ning Bian , Xianpei Han , Bo Chen , Le Sun

Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) has become enormously popular recently and has attracted a lot of attention. However, the existing reading comprehension datasets are mostly in English. In this paper, we introduce a Span-Extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Yiming Cui , Ting Liu , Wanxiang Che , Li Xiao , Zhipeng Chen , Wentao Ma , Shijin Wang , Guoping Hu

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

Commonsense reasoning deals with the implicit knowledge that is well understood by humans and typically acquired via interactions with the world. In recent times, commonsense reasoning and understanding of various LLMs have been evaluated…

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