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The NarrativeQA Reading Comprehension Challenge [PDF]

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018
Reading comprehension (RC)—in contrast to information retrieval—requires integrating information and reasoning about events, entities, and their relations across a full document. Question answering is conventionally used to assess RC ability, in both artificial agents and children learning to read. However, existing RC datasets and tasks are dominated
Phil Blunsom, Karl Moritz Hermann, Gábor Melis, Edward Grefenstette, Chris Dyer, Jonathan Schwarz, Tomáš Kočiský   +6 more
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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
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A Span-Extraction Dataset for Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension [PDF]

EMNLP-IJCNLP, 2019
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
Che, Wanxiang, Chen, Zhipeng, Cui, Yiming, Hu, Guoping, Liu, Ting, Ma, Wentao, Wang, Shijin, Xiao, Li   +7 more
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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
A Biemiller, A Biemiller, A Protopapas, A Seigneuric, AC Crosson, AD Baddeley, AD Baddeley, AD Baddeley, AE Cunningham, AH Paris, AH Paris, AS Gellert, AS Palinscar, B Rosenshine, BJ Meyer, BK Shapiro, BM Taylor, BS Weekes, C Chomsky, C Elbro, C Elbro, C Mehegan, C Peterson, C Peterson, CA Perfetti, CC Pappas, Charles Perfetti, CS Englert, CS Englert, DL Share, DS McNamara, DVM Bishop, DVM Bishop, E Florit, E Geva, E Skarakis-Doyle, EE Smith, EM Markman, FB Davis, FB Davis, GM Pressley, GP Ouellette, H Megherbi, H Scarborough, Henry L. Roediger, HJ Song, HJ Walberg, HW Catts, HW Catts, I Beck, I Sousa de, IL Beck, IL Beck, J Bast, J Broek van den, J Connolly, J Gallini, J Lepola, J Reid, James Deese, JANE OAKHILL, JB Carroll, JD Bransford, JE Arnold, JF Whaley, JJ Carney, JM Keenan, JM Keenan, JM Leach, JM Mandler, JP Williams, JP Williams, JS Chall, JS Lynch, JS Lynch, JS Sachs, JV Oakhill, JV Oakhill, JV Oakhill, JV Oakhill, JV Oakhill, JV Oakhill, JV Oakhill, JV Oakhill, JW Irwin, JW Pichert, K Cain, K Cain, K Cain, K Cain, K Cain, K Cain, K Cain, K Cain, K Cain, K Cain, K Cain, K Cain, K Cain, K Cain, K Cain, K Nation, K Nation, K Nation, K Nation, Kate Cain, KE Stanovich, KL McMaster, KM Hall, KR Tannenbaum, L Baker, L Bloom, LB Gambrell, LE Cutting, LJ Chapman, LK Tyler, LM Dunn, M Daneman, M Kail, M Mayer, M Pressley, M Snowling, M Tomesen, MA Barnes, MA Barnes, MA Gernsbacher, MA Medo, Macarena Silva, MAK Halliday, Maria Earman Stetter, MC Levorato, MC Levorato, MD Coyne, MD Neale, MF Ehrlich, Michèle Kail, MJ Snowling, MM Gernsbacher, MM Pike, Monica Melby-Lervåg, N Spörer, Nell K. Duke, NM Yuill, NM Yuill, NM Yuill, P Blewitt, P Kendeou, P Kendeou, P Pyykkonen, PB Gough, PB Gough, PF Jong de, PHK Seymour, PN Bowers, PN Bowers, PN Johnson-Laird, PW Broek van den, PW Broek van den, R Venezky, RA Zwaan, RC Anderson, RL Thorndike, RM Best, S Pinker, SA Stahl, SG Paris, SG Paris, T Shanahan, V Muter, W Kintsch, W Spooren, WE Nagy, WE Nagy, WE Nagy, WE Tunmer, X Tong, YC Chien   +176 more
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Exploring How Skimming and Scanning Fosters EFL Students’ Reading Comprehension at an English Club Senior High School in Indonesia

Tamaddun, 2023
This study aimed to examine the effect of skimming and scanning strategies on improving reading comprehension among students attending the English club at Senior High School Zainul Hasan 1 Genggong.
Lilis Agustin, Endah Tri Wisudaningsih, Ririn Fatmawati   +2 more
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TriviaQA: A Large Scale Distantly Supervised Challenge Dataset for Reading Comprehension [PDF]

Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017
We present TriviaQA, a challenging reading comprehension dataset containing over 650K question-answer-evidence triples. TriviaQA includes 95K question-answer pairs authored by trivia enthusiasts and independently gathered evidence documents, six per ...
Mandar Joshi, Eunsol Choi, Daniel S. Weld, Luke Zettlemoyer   +3 more
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Retrospective Reader for Machine Reading Comprehension [PDF]

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020
Machine reading comprehension (MRC) is an AI challenge that requires machines to determine the correct answers to questions based on a given passage. MRC systems must not only answer questions when necessary but also tactfully abstain from answering when
Zhuosheng Zhang, Junjie Yang, Hai Zhao
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SQuAD: 100,000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of Text [PDF]

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2016
We present the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD), a new reading comprehension dataset consisting of 100,000+ questions posed by crowdworkers on a set of Wikipedia articles, where the answer to each question is a segment of text from the ...
Pranav Rajpurkar, Jian Zhang, Konstantin Lopyrev, Percy Liang   +3 more
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RACE: Large-scale ReAding Comprehension Dataset From Examinations [PDF]

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2017
We present RACE, a new dataset for benchmark evaluation of methods in the reading comprehension task. Collected from the English exams for middle and high school Chinese students in the age range between 12 to 18, RACE consists of near 28,000 passages ...
Guokun Lai, Qizhe Xie, Hanxiao Liu, Yiming Yang, E. Hovy   +4 more
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The Role of Background Knowledge in Reading Comprehension: A Critical Review

Reading Psychology, 2021
A critical review was conducted to determine the influence background knowledge has on the reading comprehension of primary school-aged children. We identified twenty-three studies that met our criteria and focused on the links between background ...
Reid Smith, P. Snow, T. Serry, L. Hammond   +3 more
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