Challenge: Existing datasets for machine reading comprehension tasks in Vietnamese focus on written documents, such as Wikipedia articles, online newspapers, or textbooks.
Approach: They propose to capture Vietnamese spoken language in natural settings and use it to create a machine-learning corpus for machine reading comprehension tasks.
Outcome: The proposed corpus consists of 10,076 question-answer pairs based on 1,230 transcript documents sourced from YouTube .

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