Question-Interlocutor Scope Realized Graph Modeling over Key Utterances for Dialogue Reading Comprehension (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Compared to standard RC tasks, dialogue reading comprehension (DRC) has raised challenges because of the complex speaker information and noisy dialogue context. |
| Approach: | They propose a new method for dialogue reading comprehension that extracts answers from dialogues by using key-utterances-extracting methods and a Question-Interlocutor Scope Realized Graph. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance against previous works. |
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