{"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/molweni-a-challenge-multiparty-dialogues","title":"Molweni: A Challenge Multiparty Dialogues-based Machine Reading Comprehension Dataset with Discourse Structure","arxiv_id":"2004.05080","date":"2020-04-10","proceeding":"COLING 2020 8","authors":["Jiaqi Li","Ming Liu","Min-Yen Kan","Zihao Zheng","Zekun Wang","Wenqiang Lei","Ting Liu","Bing Qin"],"abstract":"Research into the area of multiparty dialog has grown considerably over recent years. We present the Molweni dataset, a machine reading comprehension (MRC) dataset with discourse structure built over multiparty dialog. Molweni's source samples from the Ubuntu Chat Corpus, including 10,000 dialogs comprising 88,303 utterances. We annotate 30,066 questions on this corpus, including both answerable and unanswerable questions. Molweni also uniquely contributes discourse dependency annotations in a modified Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT; Asher et al., 2016) style for all of its multiparty dialogs, contributing large-scale (78,245 annotated discourse relations) data to bear on the task of multiparty dialog discourse parsing. Our experiments show that Molweni is a challenging dataset for current MRC models: BERT-wwm, a current, strong SQuAD 2.0 performer, achieves only 67.7% F1 on Molweni's questions, a 20+% significant drop as compared against its SQuAD 2.0 performance.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05080v3","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.05080v3.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":"molweni-a-challenge-multiparty-dialogues","repo_url":"https://github.com/HIT-SCIR/Molweni","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":{"status":"ok","spdx":"NOASSERTION"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"dialogue-understanding","task_name":"Dialogue Understanding"},{"task_slug":"discourse-parsing","task_name":"Discourse Parsing"},{"task_slug":"machine-reading-comprehension","task_name":"Machine Reading Comprehension"},{"task_slug":"reading-comprehension","task_name":"Reading Comprehension"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[{"slug":"molweni","name":"Molweni","full_name":""}],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/discourse-parsing-on-molweni","task":"Discourse Parsing","dataset":"Molweni","model":"Deep Sequential","rank_in_archive_order":7,"of":7,"metrics":{"Link & Rel F1":"54.8","Link F1":"78.1"},"uses_additional_data":false}],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2004.05080","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}