Incorporating Syntax and Frame Semantics in Neural Network for Machine Reading Comprehension (2020.coling-main)
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| 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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