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ExpMRC: explainability evaluation for machine reading comprehension

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Yiming Cui *
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Ting Liu
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Wanxiang Che
陈志刚 (Zhigang Chen)
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王世进 (Shijin Wang)
DOI:10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09290delete
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Achieving human-level performance on some Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) datasets is no longer challenging with the help of powerful Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs). However, it is necessary to provide both answer prediction and its explanation to further improve the MRC system's reliability, especially for real-life applications. In this paper, we propose a new benchmark called ExpMRC for evaluating the textual explainability of the MRC systems. ExpMRC contains four subsets, including SQuAD, CMRC 2018, RACE(+), and C3, with additional annotations of the answer's evidence. The MRC systems are required to give not only the correct answer but also its explanation. We use state-of-the-art PLMs to build baseline systems and adopt various unsupervised approaches to extract both answer and evidence spans without human-annotated evidence spans. The experimental results show that these models are still far from human performance, suggesting that the ExpMRC is challenging. Resources (data and baselines) are available through https://github .com /ymcui /expmrc.
Keywords:
Machine reading comprehension
Explainable artificial intelligence
Natural language processing
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harbin institute of technology
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