A machine learning approach to answering questions for reading comprehension tests

  • Authors:
  • Hwee Tou Ng;Leong Hwee Teo;Jennifer Lai Pheng Kwan

  • Affiliations:
  • DSO National Laboratories, Singapore;DSO National Laboratories, Singapore;DSO National Laboratories, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • EMNLP '00 Proceedings of the 2000 Joint SIGDAT conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing and very large corpora: held in conjunction with the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 13
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In this paper, we report results on answering questions for the reading comprehension task, using a machine learning approach. We evaluated our approach on the Remedia data set, a common data set used in several recent papers on the reading comprehension task. Our learning approach achieves accuracy competitive to previous approaches that rely on hand-crafted, deterministic rules and algorithms. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that reports that the use of a machine learning approach achieves competitive results on answering questions for reading comprehension tests.