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Approach: They propose to explicitly model the information gain through the dialogue reasoning . they propose to apply the proposed mechanism to other machine comprehension models .
Outcome: The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance in a conversational QA dataset QuAC and a sequential instruction understanding dataset SCONE.

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