Comprehensive Multi-Dataset Evaluation of Reading Comprehension

Dheeru Dua, Ananth Gottumukkala, Alon Talmor, Sameer Singh, Matt Gardner


Abstract
Reading comprehension is one of the crucial tasks for furthering research in natural language understanding. A lot of diverse reading comprehension datasets have recently been introduced to study various phenomena in natural language, ranging from simple paraphrase matching and entity typing to entity tracking and understanding the implications of the context. Given the availability of many such datasets, comprehensive and reliable evaluation is tedious and time-consuming for researchers working on this problem. We present an evaluation server, ORB, that reports performance on seven diverse reading comprehension datasets, encouraging and facilitating testing a single model’s capability in understanding a wide variety of reading phenomena. The evaluation server places no restrictions on how models are trained, so it is a suitable test bed for exploring training paradigms and representation learning for general reading facility. As more suitable datasets are released, they will be added to the evaluation server. We also collect and include synthetic augmentations for these datasets, testing how well models can handle out-of-domain questions.
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D19-5820
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Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Machine Reading for Question Answering
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November
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2019
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Hong Kong, China
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Adam Fisch, Alon Talmor, Robin Jia, Minjoon Seo, Eunsol Choi, Danqi Chen
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WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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147–153
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https://aclanthology.org/D19-5820
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D19-5820
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Dheeru Dua, Ananth Gottumukkala, Alon Talmor, Sameer Singh, and Matt Gardner. 2019. Comprehensive Multi-Dataset Evaluation of Reading Comprehension. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Machine Reading for Question Answering, pages 147–153, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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