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MRQA 2019 Shared Task: Evaluating Generalization in Reading Comprehension [PDF]

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2019
We present the results of the Machine Reading for Question Answering (MRQA) 2019 shared task on evaluating the generalization capabilities of reading comprehension systems. In this task, we adapted and unified 18 distinct question answering datasets into
Adam Fisch, Alon Talmor, Robin Jia, Minjoon Seo, Eunsol Choi, Danqi Chen   +5 more
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Cognitive flexibility predicts early reading skills [PDF]

, 2014
International audienceAn important aspect of learning to read is efficiency in accessing different kinds of linguistic information (orthographic, phonological, and semantic) about written words.
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DREAM: A Challenge Data Set and Models for Dialogue-Based Reading Comprehension [PDF]

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019
We present DREAM, the first dialogue-based multiple-choice reading comprehension data set. Collected from English as a Foreign Language examinations designed by human experts to evaluate the comprehension level of Chinese learners of English, our data ...
Kai Sun, Dian Yu, Jianshu Chen, Dong Yu, Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie   +5 more
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How executive functions contribute to reading comprehension

British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Background Executive functions have been proposed to account for individual variation in reading comprehension beyond the contributions of decoding skills and language skills.
S. Nouwens, Margriet A. Groen, Tijs Kleemans, L. Verhoeven   +3 more
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Optimizing Odia Braille Literacy: The Influence of Speed on Error Reduction and Enhanced Comprehension [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
This study aims to conduct an extensive detailed analysis of the Odia Braille reading comprehension among students with visual disability. Specifically, the study explores their reading speed and hand or finger movements. The study also aims to investigate any comprehension difficulties and reading errors they may encounter.
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Considering the Role of Executive Function in Reading Comprehension: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Scientific Studies of Reading, 2020
In the present study, we used latent variable structural equation modeling to investigate relations between oral language, decoding, and two components of executive function (cognitive flexibility and working memory) and reading comprehension in a sample
Mercedes Spencer, Miranda C. Richmond, L. Cutting   +2 more
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Learning to Ask: Neural Question Generation for Reading Comprehension [PDF]

Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017
We study automatic question generation for sentences from text passages in reading comprehension. We introduce an attention-based sequence learning model for the task and investigate the effect of encoding sentence- vs. paragraph-level information.
Xinya Du, Junru Shao, Claire Cardie
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Prosodic reading and reading comprehension in university

EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture, 2020
This study was aimed at investigating the students’ English reading comprehension on the basis of the importance of prosodic reading in university level by first, measuring the levels of reading prosody and reading comprehension, characterizing the acoustic characteristics produced by the students, and at last associating the first variable to the ...
Ida Rosmalina, Hesti Wahyuni Anggraini, Aulia Rahmawati   +2 more
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Cognitive Graph for Multi-Hop Reading Comprehension at Scale [PDF]

Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019
We propose a new CogQA framework for multi-hop reading comprehension question answering in web-scale documents. Founded on the dual process theory in cognitive science, the framework gradually builds a cognitive graph in an iterative process by ...
Ming Ding, Chang Zhou, Qibin Chen, Hongxia Yang, Jie Tang   +4 more
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The correlations among English language exposure, learning motivation, and reading comprehension achievement of high school students in Palembang

English Review: Journal of English Education, 2020
Language exposure and learning motivation are two of the most essential aspects in learning any language. In English language acquisition, the development of these two components facilitates the development of other language skills, such as reading ...
Galiansa, Bambang A Loeneto, Mgrt. Dinar Sitinjak   +2 more
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