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Evaluation Metrics for Machine Reading Comprehension: Prerequisite Skills and Readability

• Saku Sugawara, Yusuke Kido, Hikaru Yokono, Akiko Aizawa
• ACL
• 2017

Knowing the quality of reading comprehension (RC) datasets is important for the development of natural-language understanding systems. In this study, two classes of metrics were adopted for… (More)

Prerequisite Skills for Reading Comprehension: Multi-Perspective Analysis of MCTest Datasets and Systems

• Saku Sugawara, Hikaru Yokono, Akiko Aizawa
• AAAI
• 2017

One of the main goals of natural language processing (NLP) is synthetic understanding of natural language documents, especially reading comprehension (RC). An obstacle to the further development of… (More)

What Makes Reading Comprehension Questions Easier?

• Saku Sugawara, Kentaro Inui, Satoshi Sekine, Akiko Aizawa
• EMNLP
• 2018

A challenge in creating a dataset for machine reading comprehension (MRC) is to collect questions that require a sophisticated understanding of language to answer beyond using superficial cues. In… (More)

On Dialogue Breakdown : Annotation and Detection A report from the dialogue breakdown detection challenge

• Kotaro Funakoshi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, +6 authors Mayumi Bono
• 2016

We organized the dialogue breakdown challenge, which is an evaluation workshop dedicated to the detection of breakdowns in Japanese human-machine chat-oriented dialogues. This paper reports analyses… (More)

Annotation and Analysis of Discourse Relations, Temporal Relations and Multi-Layered Situational Relations in Japanese Texts

• Kimi Kaneko, Saku Sugawara, Koji Mineshima, Daisuke Bekki
• ALR@COLING
• 2016

This paper proposes a methodology for building a specialized Japanese data set for recognizing temporal relations and discourse relations. In addition to temporal and discourse relations,… (More)

An Analysis of Prerequisite Skills for Reading Comprehension

• Saku Sugawara
• 2016

MCTest accuracy RC skills ( ∗ : “understanding of”) 1. Baseline SW+D 2. Smith No RTE 3. Smith RTE MCTest Frequency SQuAD Frequency Description or Examples List/Enumeration 51.1% 65.1% 61.9% 14.7%… (More)

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