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This paper focuses on how to take advantage of external relational knowledge to improve machine reading comprehension (MRC) with multi-task learning. Most of the traditional methods in MRC assume that the knowledge used to get the correct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Jiangnan Xia , Chen Wu , Ming Yan

Multi-choice Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) as a challenge requires models to select the most appropriate answer from a set of candidates with a given passage and question. Most of the existing researches focus on the modeling of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yilin Zhao , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

Autoregressive language models are trained by minimizing the cross-entropy of the model distribution Q relative to the data distribution P -- that is, minimizing the forward cross-entropy, which is equivalent to maximum likelihood…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Shiyue Zhang , Shijie Wu , Ozan Irsoy , Steven Lu , Mohit Bansal , Mark Dredze , David Rosenberg

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

Repository-level code agents have shown strong promise in real-world feature addition tasks, making reliable evaluation of their capabilities increasingly important. However, existing benchmarks primarily evaluate these agents as black…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Shuhan Liu , Zhiyi Zhao , Xing Hu , Kui Liu , Xiaohu Yang , Xin Xia

Question-answering datasets require a broad set of reasoning skills. We show how to use question decompositions to teach language models these broad reasoning skills in a robust fashion. Specifically, we use widely available QDMR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Harsh Trivedi , Niranjan Balasubramanian , Tushar Khot , Ashish Sabharwal

Multi-choice reading comprehension is a challenging task that requires complex reasoning procedure. Given passage and question, a correct answer need to be selected from a set of candidate answers. In this paper, we propose \textbf{D}ual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Shuailiang Zhang , Hai Zhao , Yuwei Wu , Zhuosheng Zhang , Xi Zhou , Xiang Zhou

Large language models have recently made tremendous progress in a variety of aspects, e.g., cross-task generalization, instruction following. Comprehensively evaluating the capability of large language models in multiple tasks is of great…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Chuang Liu , Renren Jin , Yuqi Ren , Linhao Yu , Tianyu Dong , Xiaohan Peng , Shuting Zhang , Jianxiang Peng , Peiyi Zhang , Qingqing Lyu , Xiaowen Su , Qun Liu , Deyi Xiong

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) has received considerable attention as a benchmark for natural language understanding. However, the conventional task design of MRC lacks explainability beyond the model interpretation, i.e., reading…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Saku Sugawara , Pontus Stenetorp , Akiko Aizawa

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

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

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to various NLP tasks, their inherent biases are gradually disclosed. Therefore, measuring biases in LLMs is crucial to mitigate its ethical risks. However, most existing bias…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Tian Lan , Xiangdong Su , Xu Liu , Ruirui Wang , Ke Chang , Jiang Li , Guanglai Gao

To precisely evaluate a language model's capability for logical reading comprehension, we present a dataset for testing the understanding of the rationale behind critical reasoning. For questions taken from an existing multiplechoice…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Akira Kawabata , Saku Sugawara

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) integrates external knowledge to enhance Large Language Models (LLMs), yet systems remain susceptible to two critical flaws: providing correct answers without explicit grounded evidence and producing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yibo Zhao , Jiapeng Zhu , Zichen Ding , Xiang Li

Reasoning about actions and change (RAC) is essential to understand and interact with the ever-changing environment. Previous AI research has shown the importance of fundamental and indispensable knowledge of actions, i.e., preconditions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Weinan He , Canming Huang , Zhanhao Xiao , Yongmei Liu

We introduce a large scale MAchine Reading COmprehension dataset, which we name MS MARCO. The dataset comprises of 1,010,916 anonymized questions---sampled from Bing's search query logs---each with a human generated answer and 182,669…

Recent studies report that many machine reading comprehension (MRC) models can perform closely to or even better than humans on benchmark datasets. However, existing works indicate that many MRC models may learn shortcuts to outwit these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Yuxuan Lai , Chen Zhang , Yansong Feng , Quzhe Huang , Dongyan Zhao

Remarkable success has been achieved in the last few years on some limited machine reading comprehension (MRC) tasks. However, it is still difficult to interpret the predictions of existing MRC models. In this paper, we focus on extracting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Hai Wang , Dian Yu , Kai Sun , Jianshu Chen , Dong Yu , David McAllester , Dan Roth

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

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) offers an effective approach for addressing question answering (QA) tasks. However, the imperfections of the retrievers in RAG models often result in the retrieval of irrelevant information, which could…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jinyuan Fang , Zaiqiao Meng , Craig Macdonald