NumNet: Machine reading comprehension with numerical reasoning

Q Ran, Y Lin, P Li, J Zhou, Z Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.06701, 2019 - arxiv.org
Q Ran, Y Lin, P Li, J Zhou, Z Liu
arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.06701, 2019arxiv.org
Numerical reasoning, such as addition, subtraction, sorting and counting is a critical skill in
human's reading comprehension, which has not been well considered in existing machine
reading comprehension (MRC) systems. To address this issue, we propose a numerical
MRC model named as NumNet, which utilizes a numerically-aware graph neural network to
consider the comparing information and performs numerical reasoning over numbers in the
question and passage. Our system achieves an EM-score of 64.56% on the DROP dataset …
Numerical reasoning, such as addition, subtraction, sorting and counting is a critical skill in human's reading comprehension, which has not been well considered in existing machine reading comprehension (MRC) systems. To address this issue, we propose a numerical MRC model named as NumNet, which utilizes a numerically-aware graph neural network to consider the comparing information and performs numerical reasoning over numbers in the question and passage. Our system achieves an EM-score of 64.56% on the DROP dataset, outperforming all existing machine reading comprehension models by considering the numerical relations among numbers.
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