Towards Inference-Oriented Reading Comprehension: ParallelQA

05/10/2018

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by   Soumya Wadhwa, et al.

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Carnegie Mellon University

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In this paper, we investigate the tendency of end-to-end neural Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) models to match shallow patterns rather than perform inference-oriented reasoning on RC benchmarks. We aim to test the ability of these systems to answer questions which focus on referential inference. We propose ParallelQA, a strategy to formulate such questions using parallel passages. We also demonstrate that existing neural models fail to generalize well to this setting.