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  1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    RACE: Large-scale ReAding Comprehension Dataset From Examinations

    Lai, Xie, Liu, Yang and Hovy · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2017

    The authors present RACE, a dataset of about 28,000 passages and 100,000 questions from English exams for Chinese school students, built to test machine reading comprehension.

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    1. UncheckedIn RACE, more questions need reasoning than in other reading-comprehension benchmarks, and the best models (43%) trail human performance (95%).“In particular, the proportion of questions that requires reasoning is much larger in RACE than that in other benchmark datasets for reading comprehension, and there is a significant gap between the performance of the state-of-the-art models (43%) and the ceiling human performance (95%).”

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