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ReCoRD: Bridging the Gap between Human and Machine Commonsense Reading Comprehension

30 Oct 2018arXiv:1810.12885archive 2025-07-28

Sheng Zhang, Xiaodong Liu, Jingjing Liu, Jianfeng Gao, Kevin Duh, Benjamin Van Durme

We present a large-scale dataset, ReCoRD, for machine reading comprehension requiring commonsense reasoning. Experiments on this dataset demonstrate that the performance of state-of-the-art MRC systems fall far behind human performance. ReCoRD represents a challenge for future research to bridge the gap between human and machine commonsense reading comprehension. ReCoRD is available at http://nlp.jhu.edu/record.

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Common Sense ReasoningMachine Reading ComprehensionReading Comprehension

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Common Sense Reasoning ReCoRD DocQA + ELMo EM 45.4 #34 of 45 Archive leaderboard report
Common Sense Reasoning ReCoRD DocQA + ELMo F1 46.7 #34 of 45 Archive leaderboard report

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