{"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/memoreader-large-scale-reading-comprehension","title":"MemoReader: Large-Scale Reading Comprehension through Neural Memory Controller","arxiv_id":null,"date":"2018-10-01","proceeding":"EMNLP 2018 10","authors":["Seohyun Back","Seunghak Yu","Sathish Reddy Indurthi","Jihie Kim","Jaegul Choo"],"abstract":"Machine reading comprehension helps machines learn to utilize most of the human knowledge written in the form of text. Existing approaches made a significant progress comparable to human-level performance, but they are still limited in understanding, up to a few paragraphs, failing to properly comprehend lengthy document. In this paper, we propose a novel deep neural network architecture to handle a long-range dependency in RC tasks. In detail, our method has two novel aspects: (1) an advanced memory-augmented architecture and (2) an expanded gated recurrent unit with dense connections that mitigate potential information distortion occurring in the memory. Our proposed architecture is widely applicable to other models. We have performed extensive experiments with well-known benchmark datasets such as TriviaQA, QUASAR-T, and SQuAD. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms existing methods, especially for lengthy documents.","url_abs":"https://aclanthology.org/D18-1237","url_pdf":"https://aclanthology.org/D18-1237.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":"machine-reading-comprehension","task_name":"Machine Reading Comprehension"},{"task_slug":"question-answering","task_name":"Question Answering"},{"task_slug":"reading-comprehension","task_name":"Reading Comprehension"},{"task_slug":"triviaqa","task_name":"TriviaQA"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"dense-connections","method_name":"Dense Connections"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/question-answering-on-triviaqa","task":"Question Answering","dataset":"TriviaQA","model":"MemoReader","rank_in_archive_order":36,"of":56,"metrics":{"EM":"67.21","F1":"73.26"},"uses_additional_data":true}],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}