Natural Language Comprehension with the EpiReader

Understand

We present the EpiReader, a novel model for machine comprehension of text.

• Machine comprehension of unstructured, real-world text is a major research goal for natural language processing.
• Current tests of machine comprehension pose questions whose answers can be inferred from some supporting text, and evaluate a model's response to the questions.
• The EpiReader is an end-to-end neural model comprising two components: the first component proposes a small set of candidate answers after comparing a question to its supporting text, and the second component formulates hypotheses using the proposed candidates and the question, then reranks the hypotheses based on their estimated concordance with the supporting text.