A Multi-answer Multi-task Framework for Real-world Machine Reading Comprehension (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing models of machine reading comprehension (MRC) are based on cloze style questions or crowdworkers given a short passage from well-edited sources. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-answer multi-task framework that uses multiple reference answers for multiple questions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model increases the ROUGE-L score on the DuReader dataset from 44.18, the previous state-of-the-art, to 51.09 . |
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