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title = "{DREAM}: A Challenge Data Set and Models for Dialogue-Based Reading Comprehension",
author = "Sun, Kai and
Yu, Dian and
Chen, Jianshu and
Yu, Dong and
Choi, Yejin and
Cardie, Claire",
editor = "Lee, Lillian and
Johnson, Mark and
Roark, Brian and
Nenkova, Ani",
journal = "Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
volume = "7",
year = "2019",
address = "Cambridge, MA",
publisher = "MIT Press",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/Q19-1014",
doi = "10.1162/tacl_a_00264",
pages = "217--231",
abstract = "We present DREAM, the first dialogue-based multiple-choice reading comprehension data set. Collected from English as a Foreign Language examinations designed by human experts to evaluate the comprehension level of Chinese learners of English, our data set contains 10,197 multiple-choice questions for 6,444 dialogues. In contrast to existing reading comprehension data sets, DREAM is the first to focus on in-depth multi-turn multi-party dialogue understanding. DREAM is likely to present significant challenges for existing reading comprehension systems: 84{\%} of answers are non-extractive, 85{\%} of questions require reasoning beyond a single sentence, and 34{\%} of questions also involve commonsense knowledge. We apply several popular neural reading comprehension models that primarily exploit surface information within the text and find them to, at best, just barely outperform a rule-based approach. We next investigate the effects of incorporating dialogue structure and different kinds of general world knowledge into both rule-based and (neural and non-neural) machine learning-based reading comprehension models. Experimental results on the DREAM data set show the effectiveness of dialogue structure and general world knowledge. DREAM is available at \url{https://dataset.org/dream/}.",
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%0 Journal Article
%T DREAM: A Challenge Data Set and Models for Dialogue-Based Reading Comprehension
%A Sun, Kai
%A Yu, Dian
%A Chen, Jianshu
%A Yu, Dong
%A Choi, Yejin
%A Cardie, Claire
%J Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
%D 2019
%V 7
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%F sun-etal-2019-dream
%X We present DREAM, the first dialogue-based multiple-choice reading comprehension data set. Collected from English as a Foreign Language examinations designed by human experts to evaluate the comprehension level of Chinese learners of English, our data set contains 10,197 multiple-choice questions for 6,444 dialogues. In contrast to existing reading comprehension data sets, DREAM is the first to focus on in-depth multi-turn multi-party dialogue understanding. DREAM is likely to present significant challenges for existing reading comprehension systems: 84% of answers are non-extractive, 85% of questions require reasoning beyond a single sentence, and 34% of questions also involve commonsense knowledge. We apply several popular neural reading comprehension models that primarily exploit surface information within the text and find them to, at best, just barely outperform a rule-based approach. We next investigate the effects of incorporating dialogue structure and different kinds of general world knowledge into both rule-based and (neural and non-neural) machine learning-based reading comprehension models. Experimental results on the DREAM data set show the effectiveness of dialogue structure and general world knowledge. DREAM is available at https://dataset.org/dream/.
%R 10.1162/tacl_a_00264
%U https://aclanthology.org/Q19-1014
%U https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00264
%P 217-231
Markdown (Informal)
[DREAM: A Challenge Data Set and Models for Dialogue-Based Reading Comprehension](https://aclanthology.org/Q19-1014) (Sun et al., TACL 2019)
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