A survey on machine reading comprehension—tasks, evaluation metrics and benchmark datasets

C Zeng, S Li, Q Li, J Hu, J Hu - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
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 …

A survey on machine reading comprehension systems

R Baradaran, R Ghiasi, H Amirkhani - Natural Language Engineering, 2022 - cambridge.org
Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) is a challenging task and hot topic in Natural
Language Processing. The goal of this field is to develop systems for answering the …

Flamingo: a visual language model for few-shot learning

JB Alayrac, J Donahue, P Luc… - Advances in neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Building models that can be rapidly adapted to novel tasks using only a handful of annotated
examples is an open challenge for multimodal machine learning research. We introduce …

mplug: Effective and efficient vision-language learning by cross-modal skip-connections

C Li, H Xu, J Tian, W Wang, M Yan, B Bi, J Ye… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Large-scale pretrained foundation models have been an emerging paradigm for building
artificial intelligence (AI) systems, which can be quickly adapted to a wide range of …

Multi-hop paragraph retrieval for open-domain question answering

Y Feldman, R El-Yaniv - arxiv preprint arxiv:1906.06606, 2019 - arxiv.org
This paper is concerned with the task of multi-hop open-domain Question Answering (QA).
This task is particularly challenging since it requires the simultaneous performance of textual …

Machine reading comprehension: The role of contextualized language models and beyond

Z Zhang, H Zhao, R Wang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2005.06249, 2020 - arxiv.org
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) …

Reason first, then respond: Modular generation for knowledge-infused dialogue

L Adolphs, K Shuster, J Urbanek, A Szlam… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Large language models can produce fluent dialogue but often hallucinate factual
inaccuracies. While retrieval-augmented models help alleviate this issue, they still face a …

Multi-style generative reading comprehension

K Nishida, I Saito, K Nishida, K Shinoda… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
This study tackles generative reading comprehension (RC), which consists of answering
questions based on textual evidence and natural language generation (NLG). We propose a …

Question difficulty prediction for multiple choice problems in medical exams

Z Qiu, X Wu, W Fan - Proceedings of the 28th acm international …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
In the ITS (Intelligent Tutoring System) services, personalized question recommendation is a
critical function in which the key challenge is to predict the difficulty of each question. Given …

DUMA: Reading comprehension with transposition thinking

P Zhu, Z Zhang, H Zhao, X Li - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-choice Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) requires models to decide the correct
answer from a set of answer options when given a passage and a question. Thus, in …