MemoReader: Large-Scale Reading Comprehension through Neural Memory Controller
Seohyun Back, Seunghak Yu, Sathish Reddy Indurthi, Jihie Kim, Jaegul Choo
Abstract
Machine reading comprehension helps machines learn to utilize most of the human knowledge written in the form of text. Existing approaches made a significant progress comparable to human-level performance, but they are still limited in understanding, up to a few paragraphs, failing to properly comprehend lengthy document. In this paper, we propose a novel deep neural network architecture to handle a long-range dependency in RC tasks. In detail, our method has two novel aspects: (1) an advanced memory-augmented architecture and (2) an expanded gated recurrent unit with dense connections that mitigate potential information distortion occurring in the memory. Our proposed architecture is widely applicable to other models. We have performed extensive experiments with well-known benchmark datasets such as TriviaQA, QUASAR-T, and SQuAD. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms existing methods, especially for lengthy documents.- Anthology ID:
- D18-1237
- 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:
- 2131–2140
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D18-1237
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/D18-1237
- Cite (ACL):
- Seohyun Back, Seunghak Yu, Sathish Reddy Indurthi, Jihie Kim, and Jaegul Choo. 2018. MemoReader: Large-Scale Reading Comprehension through Neural Memory Controller. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 2131–2140, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- MemoReader: Large-Scale Reading Comprehension through Neural Memory Controller (Back et al., EMNLP 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/proper-vol2-ingestion/D18-1237.pdf
- Data
- SQuAD, TriviaQA