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Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC)

Machine reading comprehension (MRC), popularised by the SQuAD benchmark of Rajpurkar, Zhang, Lopyrev and Liang (2016), is a natural-language-processing task in which a model reads a given passage and answers multiple-choice or open-ended questions about it. It turns a passage plus a question into a machine-generated answer, supporting information retrieval, educational technology, and querying research databases.

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Sources

  1. Rajpurkar, P., Zhang, J., Lopyrev, K. & Liang, P. (2016). SQuAD: 100,000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of Text. EMNLP, 2383-2392. DOI: 10.18653/v1/D16-1264
  2. Yang, Z. et al. (2018). HotpotQA: A Dataset for Diverse, Explainable Multi-hop Question Answering. EMNLP. DOI: 10.18653/v1/D18-1259

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ScholarGateMachine Reading Comprehension (Neural Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC)). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/en/text-mining/neural-machine-reading