BiPaR: A Bilingual Parallel Dataset for Multilingual and Cross-lingual Reading Comprehension on Novels (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Using BiPaR, we build monolingual, multilingual and cross-lingual MRC on novels. |
| Approach: | They propose a bilingual parallel novel-style machine reading comprehension dataset BiPaR . they collect 3,667 bilingual parallel paragraphs from Chinese and English novels . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset supports multilingual and cross-lingual reading comprehension. |
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