{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/a-span-extraction-dataset-for-chinese-machine","title":"A Span-Extraction Dataset for Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension","arxiv_id":"1810.07366","date":"2018-10-17","proceeding":"IJCNLP 2019 11","authors":["Yiming Cui","Ting Liu","Wanxiang Che","Li Xiao","Zhipeng Chen","Wentao Ma","Shijin Wang","Guoping Hu"],"abstract":"Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) has become enormously popular recently and has attracted a lot of attention. However, the existing reading comprehension datasets are mostly in English. In this paper, we introduce a Span-Extraction dataset for Chinese machine reading comprehension to add language diversities in this area. The dataset is composed by near 20,000 real questions annotated on Wikipedia paragraphs by human experts. We also annotated a challenge set which contains the questions that need comprehensive understanding and multi-sentence inference throughout the context. We present several baseline systems as well as anonymous submissions for demonstrating the difficulties in this dataset. With the release of the dataset, we hosted the Second Evaluation Workshop on Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension (CMRC 2018). We hope the release of the dataset could further accelerate the Chinese machine reading comprehension research. Resources are available: https://github.com/ymcui/cmrc2018","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07366v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.07366v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"a-span-extraction-dataset-for-chinese-machine","repo_url":"https://github.com/ymcui/cmrc2018","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"tf","reach":{"status":"ok","spdx":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"machine-reading-comprehension","task_name":"Machine Reading Comprehension"},{"task_slug":"reading-comprehension","task_name":"Reading Comprehension"},{"task_slug":"sentence","task_name":"Sentence"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[{"slug":"cmrc","name":"CMRC","full_name":"Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension"},{"slug":"cmrc-2018","name":"CMRC 2018","full_name":"Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension 2018"}],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/1810.07366","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1810.07366","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}