Using Natural Language Relations between Answer Choices for Machine Comprehension (N19-1)
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| Challenge: | Current approaches to the reading comprehension task quantify the relationship between each question and answer choice independently and pick the highest scoring option. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to leverage natural language relations between answer choices to improve machine comprehension. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves the performance of a reading comprehension task by leveraging natural language relations between answer choices. |
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