阅读理解（RC）是从给定的段落或一组段落回答问题的任务。在多个段落的情况下，任务是找到问题的最佳答案。最近在自然语言处理领域（NLP）的试验和实验证明，机器可以提供不仅可以在文章中处理文本的能力，并了解其含义来回答该段落的问题，而且可以超越在许多数据集中的人类性能，例如Standford的问题应答数据集（班德）。本文在过去几十年中提出了对自然语言处理的阅读理解及其演变的研究。我们还应研究单一文件阅读理解的任务如何作为我们的多文件阅读理解系统的构建块。在本文的后半部分中，我们将研究最近提出的多文件阅读理解模型 - Re3Q，由读者，检索器和基于RA-Ranker的网络组成，以获取最佳答案给定的一组段落。

过去十年互联网上可用的信息和信息量增加。该数字化导致自动应答系统需要从冗余和过渡知识源中提取富有成效的信息。这些系统旨在利用自然语言理解（NLU）从此巨型知识源到用户查询中最突出的答案，从而取决于问题答案（QA）字段。问题答案涉及但不限于用户问题映射的步骤，以获取相关查询，检索相关信息，从检索到的信息等找到最佳合适的答案等。当前对深度学习模型的当前改进估计所有这些任务的令人信服的性能改进。在本综述工作中，根据问题的类型，答案类型，证据答案来源和建模方法进行分析QA场的研究方向。此细节随后是自动问题生成，相似性检测和语言的低资源可用性等领域的开放挑战。最后，提出了对可用数据集和评估措施的调查。

自动问题应答（QA）系统的目的是以时间有效的方式向用户查询提供答案。通常在数据库（或知识库）或通常被称为语料库的文件集合中找到答案。在过去的几十年里，收购知识的扩散，因此生物医学领域的新科学文章一直是指数增长。因此，即使对于领域专家，也难以跟踪域中的所有信息。随着商业搜索引擎的改进，用户可以在某些情况下键入其查询并获得最相关的一小组文档，以及在某些情况下从文档中的相关片段。但是，手动查找所需信息或答案可能仍然令人疑惑和耗时。这需要开发高效的QA系统，该系统旨在为用户提供精确和精确的答案提供了生物医学领域的自然语言问题。在本文中，我们介绍了用于开发普通域QA系统的基本方法，然后彻底调查生物医学QA系统的不同方面，包括使用结构化数据库和文本集合的基准数据集和几种提出的方​​法。我们还探讨了当前系统的局限性，并探索潜在的途径以获得进一步的进步。

问题答案（QA）是自然语言处理中最具挑战性的最具挑战性的问题之一（NLP）。问答（QA）系统试图为给定问题产生答案。这些答案可以从非结构化或结构化文本生成。因此，QA被认为是可以用于评估文本了解系统的重要研究区域。大量的QA研究致力于英语语言，调查最先进的技术和实现最先进的结果。然而，由于阿拉伯QA中的研究努力和缺乏大型基准数据集，在阿拉伯语问答进展中的研究努力得到了很大速度的速度。最近许多预先接受的语言模型在许多阿拉伯语NLP问题中提供了高性能。在这项工作中，我们使用四个阅读理解数据集来评估阿拉伯QA的最先进的接种变压器模型，它是阿拉伯语 - 队，ArcD，AQAD和TYDIQA-GoldP数据集。我们微调并比较了Arabertv2基础模型，ArabertV0.2大型型号和ARAElectra模型的性能。在最后，我们提供了一个分析，了解和解释某些型号获得的低绩效结果。

This paper proposes to tackle opendomain question answering using Wikipedia as the unique knowledge source: the answer to any factoid question is a text span in a Wikipedia article. This task of machine reading at scale combines the challenges of document retrieval (finding the relevant articles) with that of machine comprehension of text (identifying the answer spans from those articles). Our approach combines a search component based on bigram hashing and TF-IDF matching with a multi-layer recurrent neural network model trained to detect answers in Wikipedia paragraphs. Our experiments on multiple existing QA datasets indicate that (1) both modules are highly competitive with respect to existing counterparts and (2) multitask learning using distant supervision on their combination is an effective complete system on this challenging task.

问题回答（QA）是信息检索和信息提取领域内的一项自然理解任务，由于基于机器阅读理解的模型的强劲发展，近年来，近年来，近年来的计算语言学和人工智能研究社区引起了很多关注。基于读者的质量检查系统是一种高级搜索引擎，可以使用机器阅读理解（MRC）技术在开放域或特定领域特定文本中找到正确的查询或问题的答案。 MRC和QA系统中的数据资源和机器学习方法的大多数进步尤其是在两种资源丰富的语言中显着开发的，例如英语和中文。像越南人这样的低资源语言见证了关于质量检查系统的稀缺研究。本文介绍了XLMRQA，这是第一个在基于Wikipedia的文本知识源（使用UIT-Viquad语料库）上使用基于变压器的读取器的越南质量检查系统，使用深​​层神经网络模型优于DRQA和BERTSERINI，优于两个可靠的QA系统分别为24.46％和6.28％。从三个系统获得的结果中，我们分析了问题类型对质量检查系统性能的影响。

在本报告中，我们展示了ICDAR 2021版文档视觉问题挑战的结果。此版本在单个文档VQA和Document Collection VQA上补充了以前的任务，并在Infographics VQA上进行了新引入的。信息图表VQA基于超过5,000个信息图表图像和30,000个问题答案对的新数据集。获胜者方法在Infographics VQA任务中获得了0.6120个ANL，0.7743 anlsl在文档集中的VQA任务和单个文档VQA中的0.8705 ANL中。我们展示了用于每个任务的数据集的摘要，每个提交的方法的描述以及它们的性能的结果和分析。由于还提出了自从第一版DocVQA 2020挑战以来在单个文档VQA上取得的摘要。

We introduce a large scale MAchine Reading COmprehension dataset, which we name MS MARCO. The dataset comprises of 1,010,916 anonymized questionssampled from Bing's search query logs-each with a human generated answer and 182,669 completely human rewritten generated answers. In addition, the dataset contains 8,841,823 passages-extracted from 3,563,535 web documents retrieved by Bing-that provide the information necessary for curating the natural language answers. A question in the MS MARCO dataset may have multiple answers or no answers at all. Using this dataset, we propose three different tasks with varying levels of difficulty: (i) predict if a question is answerable given a set of context passages, and extract and synthesize the answer as a human would (ii) generate a well-formed answer (if possible) based on the context passages that can be understood with the question and passage context, and finally (iii) rank a set of retrieved passages given a question. The size of the dataset and the fact that the questions are derived from real user search queries distinguishes MS MARCO from other well-known publicly available datasets for machine reading comprehension and question-answering. We believe that the scale and the real-world nature of this dataset makes it attractive for benchmarking machine reading comprehension and question-answering models.

We present SpaceQA, to the best of our knowledge the first open-domain QA system in Space mission design. SpaceQA is part of an initiative by the European Space Agency (ESA) to facilitate the access, sharing and reuse of information about Space mission design within the agency and with the public. We adopt a state-of-the-art architecture consisting of a dense retriever and a neural reader and opt for an approach based on transfer learning rather than fine-tuning due to the lack of domain-specific annotated data. Our evaluation on a test set produced by ESA is largely consistent with the results originally reported by the evaluated retrievers and confirms the need of fine tuning for reading comprehension. As of writing this paper, ESA is piloting SpaceQA internally.

有关应答数据集和模型的研究在研究界中获得了很多关注。其中许多人释放了自己的问题应答数据集以及模型。我们在该研究领域看到了巨大的进展。本调查的目的是识别，总结和分析许多研究人员释放的现有数据集，尤其是在非英语数据集以及研究代码和评估指标等资源中。在本文中，我们审查了问题应答数据集，这些数据集可以以法语，德语，日语，中文，阿拉伯语，俄语以及多语言和交叉的问答数据集进行英语。

问答系统被认为是流行且经常有效的信息在网络上寻求信息的手段。在这样的系统中，寻求信息者可以通过自然语言提出问题来获得对他们的查询的简短回应。交互式问题回答是一种最近提出且日益流行的解决方案，它位于问答和对话系统的交集。一方面，用户可以以普通语言提出问题，并找到对她的询问的实际回答；另一方面，如果在初始请求中有多个可能的答复，很少或歧义，则系统可以将问题交通会话延长到对话中。通过允许用户提出更多问题，交互式问题回答使用户能够与系统动态互动并获得更精确的结果。这项调查提供了有关当前文献中普遍存在的交互式提问方法的详细概述。它首先要解释提问系统的基本原理，从而定义新的符号和分类法，以将所有已确定的作品结合在统一框架内。然后，根据提出的方法，评估方法和数据集/应用程序域来介绍和检查有关交互式问题解答系统的审查已发表的工作。我们还描述了围绕社区提出的特定任务和问题的趋势，从而阐明了学者的未来利益。 GitHub页面的综合综合了本文献研究中涵盖的所有主要主题，我们的工作得到了进一步的支持。 https://sisinflab.github.io/interactive-question-answering-systems-survey/

Humans gather information through conversations involving a series of interconnected questions and answers. For machines to assist in information gathering, it is therefore essential to enable them to answer conversational questions. We introduce CoQA, a novel dataset for building Conversational Question Answering systems. 1 Our dataset contains 127k questions with answers, obtained from 8k conversations about text passages from seven diverse domains. The questions are conversational, and the answers are free-form text with their corresponding evidence highlighted in the passage. We analyze CoQA in depth and show that conversational questions have challenging phenomena not present in existing reading comprehension datasets, e.g., coreference and pragmatic reasoning. We evaluate strong dialogue and reading comprehension models on CoQA. The best system obtains an F1 score of 65.4%, which is 23.4 points behind human performance (88.8%), indicating there is ample room for improvement. We present CoQA as a challenge to the community at https://stanfordnlp. github.io/coqa.

近年来，低资源机器阅读理解（MRC）取得了重大进展，模型在各种语言数据集中获得了显着性能。但是，这些模型都没有为URDU语言定制。这项工作探讨了通过将机器翻译的队伍与来自剑桥O级书籍的Wikipedia文章和Urdu RC工作表组合的人生成的样本组合了机器翻译的小队，探讨了乌尔通题的半自动创建了数据集（UQuad1.0）。 UQuad1.0是一个大型URDU数据集，用于提取机器阅读理解任务，由49K问题答案成对组成，段落和回答格式。在UQuad1.0中，通过众包的原始SquAd1.0和大约4000对的机器翻译产生45000对QA。在本研究中，我们使用了两种类型的MRC型号：基于规则的基线和基于先进的变换器的模型。但是，我们发现后者优于其他人;因此，我们已经决定专注于基于变压器的架构。使用XLMroberta和多语言伯特，我们分别获得0.66和0.63的F1得分。

Deep Learning and Machine Learning based models have become extremely popular in text processing and information retrieval. However, the non-linear structures present inside the networks make these models largely inscrutable. A significant body of research has focused on increasing the transparency of these models. This article provides a broad overview of research on the explainability and interpretability of natural language processing and information retrieval methods. More specifically, we survey approaches that have been applied to explain word embeddings, sequence modeling, attention modules, transformers, BERT, and document ranking. The concluding section suggests some possible directions for future research on this topic.

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) is a long-standing topic in natural language processing (NLP). The MRC task aims to answer a question based on the given context. Recently studies focus on multi-hop MRC which is a more challenging extension of MRC, which to answer a question some disjoint pieces of information across the context are required. Due to the complexity and importance of multi-hop MRC, a large number of studies have been focused on this topic in recent years, therefore, it is necessary and worth reviewing the related literature. This study aims to investigate recent advances in the multi-hop MRC approaches based on 31 studies from 2018 to 2022. In this regard, first, the multi-hop MRC problem definition will be introduced, then 31 models will be reviewed in detail with a strong focus on their multi-hop aspects. They also will be categorized based on their main techniques. Finally, a fine-grain comprehensive comparison of the models and techniques will be presented.

Recent work on open domain question answering (QA) assumes strong supervision of the supporting evidence and/or assumes a blackbox information retrieval (IR) system to retrieve evidence candidates. We argue that both are suboptimal, since gold evidence is not always available, and QA is fundamentally different from IR. We show for the first time that it is possible to jointly learn the retriever and reader from question-answer string pairs and without any IR system. In this setting, evidence retrieval from all of Wikipedia is treated as a latent variable. Since this is impractical to learn from scratch, we pre-train the retriever with an Inverse Cloze Task. We evaluate on open versions of five QA datasets. On datasets where the questioner already knows the answer, a traditional IR system such as BM25 is sufficient. On datasets where a user is genuinely seeking an answer, we show that learned retrieval is crucial, outperforming BM25 by up to 19 points in exact match.

问题回答（QA）是最重要的自然语言处理（NLP）任务之一。它旨在使用NLP技术根据大规模的非结构化语料库生成对给定问题的相应答案。随着深度学习的发展，正在提出越来越具有挑战性的质量检查数据集，并且许多用于解决它们的新方法也正在出现。在本文中，我们研究了在深度学习时代发布的有影响力的质量检查数据集。具体来说，我们首先引入两个最常见的质量检查任务 - 文本问题答案和视觉问题 - 分别涵盖最具代表性的数据集，然后给出质量检查研究的一些当前挑战。

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 ceiling human performance (95%). We hope this new dataset can serve as a valuable resource for research and evaluation in machine comprehension. The dataset is freely available at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/ ˜glai1/data/race/ and the code is available at https://github.com/ qizhex/RACE_AR_baselines

We present TriviaQA, a challenging reading comprehension dataset containing over 650K question-answer-evidence triples. TriviaQA includes 95K questionanswer pairs authored by trivia enthusiasts and independently gathered evidence documents, six per question on average, that provide high quality distant supervision for answering the questions. We show that, in comparison to other recently introduced large-scale datasets, TriviaQA (1) has relatively complex, compositional questions, (2) has considerable syntactic and lexical variability between questions and corresponding answer-evidence sentences, and (3) requires more cross sentence reasoning to find answers. We also present two baseline algorithms: a featurebased classifier and a state-of-the-art neural network, that performs well on SQuAD reading comprehension. Neither approach comes close to human performance (23% and 40% vs. 80%), suggesting that Trivi-aQA is a challenging testbed that is worth significant future study. 1

Open-domain question answering relies on efficient passage retrieval to select candidate contexts, where traditional sparse vector space models, such as TF-IDF or BM25, are the de facto method. In this work, we show that retrieval can be practically implemented using dense representations alone, where embeddings are learned from a small number of questions and passages by a simple dualencoder framework. When evaluated on a wide range of open-domain QA datasets, our dense retriever outperforms a strong Lucene-BM25 system greatly by 9%-19% absolute in terms of top-20 passage retrieval accuracy, and helps our end-to-end QA system establish new state-of-the-art on multiple open-domain QA benchmarks. 1 * Equal contribution 1 The code and trained models have been released at https://github.com/facebookresearch/DPR.