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MCTest
MCTest is a freely available set of stories and associated questions intended for research on the machine comprehension of text.
MCTest requires machines to answer multiple-choice reading comprehension questions about fictional stories, directly tackling the high-level goal of open-domain machine comprehension.
Source: MCTest: A Challenge Dataset for the Open-Domain Machine Comprehension of Text Image Source: Richardson et al
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
All 2 leaderboards 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) | Paper | Code | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Question Answering | MCTest-500 | Parallel-Hierarchical Accuracy 71% | A Parallel-Hierarchical Model for Machine Comprehension... | Maluuba/mctest-model | 2 | Compare |
| Question Answering | MCTest-160 | syntax, frame, coreference, and word embedding features Accuracy 75.27% | A Parallel-Hierarchical Model for Machine Comprehension... | Maluuba/mctest-model | 1 | 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 114. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Parallel-Hierarchical Model for Machine Comprehension on Sparse Data | 1 | 3 | 29 Mar 2016 | not harvested |
Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
2 loaders as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.
Tasks archive 2025-07-28
License archive 2025-07-28
Modalities archive 2025-07-28
Languages archive 2025-07-28
Variants archive 2025-07-28
- MCTest-160
- MCTest-500
- MCTest
3 variant names, as the archive lists them.
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