BIOMRC: A Dataset for Biomedical Machine Reading Comprehension

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We introduce BIOMRC, a large-scale cloze-style biomedical MRC dataset.

• Care was taken to reduce noise, compared to the previous BIOREAD dataset of Pappas et al.
• (2018).
• Experiments show that simple heuristics do not perform well on the new dataset, and that two neural MRC models that had been tested on BIOREAD perform much better on BIOMRC, indicating that the new dataset is indeed less noisy or at least that its task is more feasible.