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Children's Book Test

Introduced by Felix Hill et al. in The Goldilocks Principle: Reading Children's Books with Explicit Memory Representations archive 2025-07-28

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Question Answering Children's Book Test NSE Accuracy-CN 71.9% Gated-Attention Readers for Text Comprehension AI-metrics/AI-metrics +3 8 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

5 shown of 5 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 50. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
Attention-over-Attention Neural Networks for Reading Comprehension 2 1 15 Jul 2016 not harvested
Natural Language Comprehension with the EpiReader 0 1 7 Jun 2016 not harvested
Iterative Alternating Neural Attention for Machine Reading 1 1 7 Jun 2016 not harvested
Gated-Attention Readers for Text Comprehension 4 3 5 Jun 2016 ran 1 of 3 samples (2 unverified)
Text Understanding with the Attention Sum Reader Network 2 2 4 Mar 2016 ran 0 of 10 samples (10 unverified)

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

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License archive 2025-07-28

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

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