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Approach: They propose to model text structure as answer position and syntactic dependency and propose a mask attention mechanism to make syntaktic structure of input passage accessible.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms the strong pre-trained model ProphetNet on a SQuAD dataset and achieves competitive results with the state-of-the-art model.

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