A Span-Extraction Dataset for Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension [PDF]
EMNLP 2019 5886-5891, 2018 Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) has become enormously popular recently and has attracted a lot of attention. However, the existing reading comprehension datasets are mostly in English. In this paper, we introduce a Span-Extraction dataset for Chinese machine reading comprehension to add language diversities in this area.
Che, Wanxiang +7 more
arxiv +5 more sources
STARC: Structured Annotations for Reading Comprehension [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 We present STARC (Structured Annotations for Reading Comprehension), a new annotation framework for assessing reading comprehension with multiple choice questions. Our framework introduces a principled structure for the answer choices and ties them to textual span annotations.
Berzak, Yevgeni +2 more
arxiv +3 more sources
Development of reading fluency and metacognitive knowledge of reading strategies during reciprocal teaching: do these changes actually contribute to reading comprehension? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The study examined the effect of reciprocal teaching on students’ reading comprehension, reading fluency, and metacognitive knowledge of reading strategies, especially among students with learning difficulties.
Maris Juhkam +3 more
doaj +2 more sources
Reading comprehension improvement in autism [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryIntroductionA subset of autistic children excel at word decoding but have difficulty with reading comprehension (i.e., the discrepant poor comprehender reading profile).
Meagan Beckerson +7 more
doaj +2 more sources
Reading fluency as the bridge between decoding and reading comprehension in Chinese children [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 PurposeReading fluency has been considered an essential component of reading comprehension, but it is yet to be examined in a reading model in a non-alphabetic writing system.
Lucy Shih-Ju Hsu +2 more
doaj +2 more sources
Reading Comprehension and Reading Comprehension Difficulties [PDF]
, 2019 The Simple View of Reading indicates that reading comprehension is based upon two broad skills, language comprehension and word reading. This chapter explores the many factors that directly impact language comprehension and reading comprehension apart from word reading skills. Vocabulary, inferencing, background knowledge, comprehension monitoring, and
Oakhill, Jane V. +2 more
openaire +5 more sources
DREAM: A Challenge Dataset and Models for Dialogue-Based Reading Comprehension [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 We present DREAM, the first dialogue-based multiple-choice reading comprehension dataset. Collected from English-as-a-foreign-language examinations designed by human experts to evaluate the comprehension level of Chinese learners of English, our dataset contains 10,197 multiple-choice questions for 6,444 dialogues.
Kai Sun +5 more
arxiv +3 more sources
Reading Comprehension Ability Test-A Turing Test for Reading Comprehension [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Reading comprehension is an important ability of human intelligence. Literacy and numeracy are two most essential foundation for people to succeed at study, at work and in life. Reading comprehension ability is a core component of literacy. In most of the education systems, developing reading comprehension ability is compulsory in the curriculum from ...
Miao, Yuan +3 more
arxiv +3 more sources
Predictors of reading comprehension and profiling of poor readers in Croatian: educational and clinical perspectives [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionReading is an important academic skill. Children who exhibit reading difficulties are more likely to experience various negative professional and personal consequences.
Jelena Kuvač Kraljević +5 more
doaj +2 more sources
Reading theories and reading comprehension
Journal on English as a Foreign Language, 2015 In this article several reading theories in their relations to reading comprehension teachers and lecturers of English need to know are reviewed.
Maria Novary Ngabut
doaj +3 more sources