articleJan 1, 2017GOLD OA

RACE: Large-scale ReAding Comprehension Dataset From Examinations

GLGuokun LaiQXQizhe XieHLHanxiao LiuYYYiming YangEHEduard Hovy

Carnegie Mellon University

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Abstract

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 and near 100,000 questions generated by human experts (English instructors), and covers a variety of topics which are carefully designed for evaluating the students' ability in understanding and reasoning. In particular, the proportion of questions that requires reasoning is much larger in RACE than that in other benchmark datasets for reading comprehension, and there is a significant gap between the performance of the state-of-the-art models (43%) and the…

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  • Computer science
  • Race (biology)
  • Comprehension
  • Benchmark (surveying)
  • Reading comprehension
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  • Artificial intelligence
  • Natural language processing
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