Abstract
Recent work has improved on modeling for reading comprehension tasks with simple approaches such as the Attention Sum-Reader; however, automatic systems still significantly trail human performance. Analysis suggests that many of the remaining hard instances are related to the inability to track entity-references throughout documents. This work focuses on these hard entity tracking cases with two extensions: (1) additional entity features, and (2) training with a multi-task tracking objective. We show that these simple modifications improve performance both independently and in combination, and we outperform the previous state of the art on the LAMBADA dataset by 8 pts, particularly on difficult entity examples. We also effectively match the performance of more complicated models on the named entity portion of the CBT dataset.- Anthology ID:
- D18-1130
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- October-November
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Brussels, Belgium
- Editors:
- Ellen Riloff, David Chiang, Julia Hockenmaier, Jun’ichi Tsujii
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- SIGDAT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1049–1055
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D18-1130
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/D18-1130
- Cite (ACL):
- Luong Hoang, Sam Wiseman, and Alexander Rush. 2018. Entity Tracking Improves Cloze-style Reading Comprehension. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1049–1055, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Entity Tracking Improves Cloze-style Reading Comprehension (Hoang et al., EMNLP 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/proper-vol2-ingestion/D18-1130.pdf
- Code
- harvardnlp/readcomp
- Data
- CBT, LAMBADA