A Multiple-Choice Machine Reading Comprehension Model with Multi-Granularity Semantic Reasoning

• Published in: Applied sciences Vol. 11; no. 17; p. 7945
• Main Authors: Dai, Yu, Fu, Yufan, Yang, Lei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.09.2021
• Subjects: Accuracy; Artificial intelligence; Candidates; Datasets; Deep learning; Information processing; Language; Machine learning; machine reading comprehension; Natural language; natural language processing; Neural networks; pre-training model; Reading comprehension; Reasoning; semantic reasoning; Semantics
• ISSN: 2076-3417; 2076-3417
• DOI: 10.3390/app11177945

To address the problem of poor semantic reasoning of models in multiple-choice Chinese machine reading comprehension (MRC), this paper proposes an MRC model incorporating multi-granularity semantic reasoning. In this work, we firstly encode articles, questions and candidates to extract global reasoning information; secondly, we use multiple convolution kernels of different sizes to convolve and maximize pooling of the BERT-encoded articles, questions and candidates to extract local semantic reasoning information of different granularities; we then fuse the global information with the local multi-granularity information and use it to make an answer selection. The proposed model can combine the learned multi-granularity semantic information for reasoning, solving the problem of poor semantic reasoning ability of the model, and thus can improve the reasoning ability of machine reading comprehension. The experiments show that the proposed model achieves better performance on the C3 dataset than the benchmark model in semantic reasoning, which verifies the effectiveness of the proposed model in semantic reasoning.