Challenge: Existing methods for machine reading comprehension rely on manually defined features and are difficult to generalize to other tasks.
Approach: They propose a Syntax and Frame Semantics model for Machine Reading Comprehension which takes full advantage of syntax and frame semantics to get richer text representation.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms ten state-of-the-art models on machine reading comprehension tasks.

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Challenge: Recent advances in machine reading comprehension rely heavily on large-scale annotated corpora, which are timeconsuming and costly to collect.
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