{"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/mcscript-a-novel-dataset-for-assessing","title":"MCScript: A Novel Dataset for Assessing Machine Comprehension Using Script Knowledge","arxiv_id":"1803.05223","date":"2018-03-14","proceeding":"LREC 2018 5","authors":["Simon Ostermann","Ashutosh Modi","Michael Roth","Stefan Thater","Manfred Pinkal"],"abstract":"We introduce a large dataset of narrative texts and questions about these\ntexts, intended to be used in a machine comprehension task that requires\nreasoning using commonsense knowledge. Our dataset complements similar datasets\nin that we focus on stories about everyday activities, such as going to the\nmovies or working in the garden, and that the questions require commonsense\nknowledge, or more specifically, script knowledge, to be answered. We show that\nour mode of data collection via crowdsourcing results in a substantial amount\nof such inference questions. The dataset forms the basis of a shared task on\ncommonsense and script knowledge organized at SemEval 2018 and provides\nchallenging test cases for the broader natural language understanding\ncommunity.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05223v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.05223v1.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":[],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"natural-language-understanding","task_name":"Natural Language Understanding"},{"task_slug":"reading-comprehension","task_name":"Reading Comprehension"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[{"slug":"mcscript","name":"MCScript","full_name":"MCScript"}],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1803.05223","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}