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Machine Reading Comprehension
MRC scans documents and extracts meaning from the text, just like a human reader. You can ask MRC questions about a document and it will use different parts of the content until an answer is formed.
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The need
Machine learning models benefit from transfer learning. In computer vision, neural networks trained on a large dataset are useful for initializing models on other vision tasks. How can we leverage the transfer learning technique for text?
The idea
Suppose you have a very domain specific question and you want to get the best answer from a document. What if we could read thousands of documents and then use AI to answer that question with the best context and inference?
The solution
Using a neural network called the Reasoning Network (ReasoNet), researchers mimic the inference process of human readers. With a question in mind, ReasoNet scans a document and focuses on different parts until it gets an answer.
Machine Reading Comprehension
Using a novel neural network architecture called the Reasoning Network (ReasoNet), we were able to mimic the inference process of human readers.
Technical details of Machine Reading
MRC requires modeling complex interactions between the context and the query. Using a novel neural network architecture called the Reasoning Network (ReasoNet), researchers were able to mimic the inference process of human readers.
With a question in mind, ReasoNet reads a document repeatedly, each time focusing on different parts of the document until a satisfying answer is found or formed. Microsoft researchers today have been able to surpass human-level parity on SQuAD dataset using an unique MRC algorithm called R-NET: Machine reading comprehension with self-matching networks. R-NET applies a self-matching attention mechanism to refine the representation by matching the passage against itself, which effectively encodes information from the whole passage.
When we applied these MRC algorithms to the book, Future Computed by Brad Smith and Harry Shum, it was incredible to see that we can answer so many interesting questions. We can apply this to solve enterprise data challenges and answer enterprise domain specific questions.
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