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DuoRC

Introduced by Amrita Saha et al. in DuoRC: Towards Complex Language Understanding with Paraphrased Reading Comprehension21 Apr 2018 archive 2025-07-28

DuoRC contains 186,089 unique question-answer pairs created from a collection of 7680 pairs of movie plots where each pair in the collection reflects two versions of the same movie.

Why another RC dataset?

DuoRC pushes the NLP community to address challenges on incorporating knowledge and reasoning in neural architectures for reading comprehension. It poses several interesting challenges such as:

  • DuoRC using parallel plots is especially designed to contain a large number of questions with low lexical overlap between questions and their corresponding passages
  • It requires models to go beyond the content of the given passage itself and incorporate world-knowledge, background knowledge, and common-sense knowledge to arrive at the answer
  • It revolves around narrative passages from movie plots describing complex events and therefore naturally require complex reasoning (e.g. temporal reasoning, entailment, long-distance anaphoras, etc.) across multiple sentences to infer the answer to questions
  • Several of the questions in DuoRC, while seeming relevant, cannot actually be answered from the given passage. This requires the model to detect the unanswerability of questions. This aspect is important for machines to achieve in industrial settings in particular

Source: DuoRC

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 1 leaderboard whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.

First row (archive order)PaperCode
Question Answering DuoRC Vector Database (ChromaDB) Accuracy 55.71 RecallM: An Adaptable Memory Mechanism with Temporal... cisco-open/DeepVision 3 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

1 shown of 1 paper 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 42. 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
RecallM: An Adaptable Memory Mechanism with Temporal Understanding for Large Language Models 1 3 6 Jul 2023 not harvested

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

7 loaders as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

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Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • DuoRC

1 variant name, as the archive lists them.

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