Reading Comprehension
568 papers with code • 7 benchmarks • 95 datasets
Most current question answering datasets frame the task as reading comprehension where the question is about a paragraph or document and the answer often is a span in the document.
Some specific tasks of reading comprehension include multi-modal machine reading comprehension and textual machine reading comprehension, among others. In the literature, machine reading comprehension can be divide into four categories: cloze style, multiple choice, span prediction, and free-form answer. Read more about each category here.
Benchmark datasets used for testing a model's reading comprehension abilities include MovieQA, ReCoRD, and RACE, among others.
The Machine Reading group at UCL also provides an overview of reading comprehension tasks.
Figure source: A Survey on Machine Reading Comprehension: Tasks, Evaluation Metrics and Benchmark Datasets
Benchmarks
These leaderboards are used to track progress in Reading Comprehension
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Libraries
Use these libraries to find Reading Comprehension models and implementations
SQuAD
MS MARCO
TriviaQA
HotpotQA
RACE
NewsQA
CoQA
XQuAD
QuAC
TyDiQA
Subtasks
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Machine Reading Comprehension
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Intent Recognition
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Implicit Relations
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LAMBADA
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LAMBADA
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Question Selection
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Multi-Hop Reading Comprehension
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Implicatures
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Logical Reasoning Reading Comprehension
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English Proverbs
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Fantasy Reasoning
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Figure Of Speech Detection
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Formal Fallacies Syllogisms Negation
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GRE Reading Comprehension
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Hyperbaton
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Movie Dialog Same Or Different
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Nonsense Words Grammar
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Phrase Relatedness
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RACE-h
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RACE-m
Most implemented papers
RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach
pytorch/fairseq
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Language model pretraining has led to significant performance gains but careful comparison between different approaches is challenging.
Language Models are Few-Shot Learners
By contrast, humans can generally perform a new language task from only a few examples or from simple instructions - something which current NLP systems still largely struggle to do.
Listen, Attend and Spell
Alexander-H-Liu/End-to-end-ASR-Pytorch
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Unlike traditional DNN-HMM models, this model learns all the components of a speech recognizer jointly.
Bidirectional Attention Flow for Machine Comprehension
Machine comprehension (MC), answering a query about a given context paragraph, requires modeling complex interactions between the context and the query.
XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding
zihangdai/xlnet
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NeurIPS 2019
With the capability of modeling bidirectional contexts, denoising autoencoding based pretraining like BERT achieves better performance than pretraining approaches based on autoregressive language modeling.
Towards AI-Complete Question Answering: A Set of Prerequisite Toy Tasks
One long-term goal of machine learning research is to produce methods that are applicable to reasoning and natural language, in particular building an intelligent dialogue agent.
SQuAD: 100,000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of Text
We present the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD), a new reading comprehension dataset consisting of 100, 000+ questions posed by crowdworkers on a set of Wikipedia articles, where the answer to each question is a segment of text from the corresponding reading passage.
QANet: Combining Local Convolution with Global Self-Attention for Reading Comprehension
BangLiu/QANet-PyTorch
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ICLR 2018
On the SQuAD dataset, our model is 3x to 13x faster in training and 4x to 9x faster in inference, while achieving equivalent accuracy to recurrent models.
Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners
openai/gpt-2
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Preprint 2019
Natural language processing tasks, such as question answering, machine translation, reading comprehension, and summarization, are typically approached with supervised learning on taskspecific datasets.
MS MARCO: A Human Generated MAchine Reading COmprehension Dataset
The size of the dataset and the fact that the questions are derived from real user search queries distinguishes MS MARCO from other well-known publicly available datasets for machine reading comprehension and question-answering.
