Knowledgeable Reader: Enhancing Cloze-Style Reading Comprehension with External Commonsense Knowledge (P18-1)
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| Challenge: | a new model for reading comprehension integrates external commonsense knowledge . cloze-style reading comprehension is a language understanding task similar to question answering . |
| Approach: | They propose a reading comprehension model that integrates external commonsense knowledge in a cloze-style setting. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves results over a very strong baseline on a hard Common Nouns dataset, making it a strong competitor of more complex models. |
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