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Chinese Reading Comprehension DatasetsDescribe public Chinese RC datasets
State-of-the-art SystemsState-of-the-art systems and results
Chinese Reading Comprehension Evaluations and CompetitionsIntroductions to Chinese RC competitions

Chinese Reading Comprehension Datasets

Here I list several Chinese reading comprehension datasets that are PUBLICLY available (with appropriate technical report or paper). If I missed something, feel free to inform me. Unless indicated, the datasets are in simplified Chinese.

DatasetGenreQuery TypeAnswer TypeDocument #Query #Download
People Daily & Children's Fairy Tale [1]news & taleClozeword28K100Klink
WebQA [2]WebUser logentity-42Klink
CMRC 2017 [3]newsCloze & Queryword-364Klink
DuReader [4]WebUser logfree form1M200Klink
CMRC 2018 [5]WikiQuerySpan-18Klink
DRCD [6]<sup>(tranditional Chinese)</sup>WikiQuerySpan-34Klink
C^3 [7]mixedQuerychoice14K24Klink
CMRC 2019 [8]StoryclozeSentence1K100Klink
ChID [9]variesclozeidiom580K729Klink

[1] (Cui et al., 2016) Consensus Attention-based Neural Networks for Chinese Reading Comprehension. In COLING 2016. https://aclanthology.info/papers/C16-1167/c16-1167

[2] (Li et al., 2016) Dataset and Neural Recurrent Sequence Labeling Model for Open-Domain Factoid Question Answering. In arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.06275

[3] (Cui et al., 2018) Dataset for the First Evaluation on Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension. In LREC 2018. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2018/summaries/32.html

[4] (He et al., 2018) DuReader: a Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension Dataset from Real-world Applications. In ACL 2018 MRQA Workshop. https://aclanthology.info/papers/W18-2605/w18-2605

[5] (Cui et al., 2018) A Span-Extraction Dataset for Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension. In arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07366

[6] (Shao et al., 2018) DRCD: a Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension Dataset. In arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.00920

[7] (Sun et al., 2019) Probing Prior Knowledge Needed in Challenging Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension. https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09679

[8] (Cui et al., 2019) https://github.com/ymcui/cmrc2019

[9] (Zheng et al., 2019) ChID: A Large-scale Chinese IDiom Dataset for Cloze Test. https://aclweb.org/anthology/papers/P/P19/P19-1075/

State-of-the-art Systems

Here I list several state-of-the-art systems (published / unpublished) for these datasets. There is a big chance that I missed something. So feel free to inform me new entries on Issue tab.

People Daily & Children's Fairy Tale

SystemPD-DEVPD-TESTCFT-TEST-AUTOCFT-TEST-HUMANNote
SAW Reader (Zhang et al., 2018)72.875.1-43.8-
CAW Reader (Zhang et al., 2018)69.470.5-39.7-
CAS Reader (Cui et al., 2016)65.268.141.335.0-
AS Reader (Cui et al., 2016)64.167.240.933.1-

CMRC 2017

Leaderboard: https://hfl-rc.github.io/cmrc2017/leaderboard/

Cloze Track

SystemDEVTESTNote
6ESTATES PTE LTD (ensemble)81.8581.90-
SJTU BCMI-NLP (ensemble)78.3580.67-
YunSiChuangZhi (ensemble)79.2080.27-
SAW Reader (Zhang et al., 2018)78.9578.80-
CAW Reader (Zhang et al., 2018)77.9578.50-
Word + Char + BPE-FRQ (Zhang et al., 2018)79.0578.83-

User Query Track

SystemDEVTESTNote
ECNU (ensemble)90.4569.53-
SXU-3 (single model)47.8049.07-
ZZU (single model)31.1032.53-

DuReader

Leaderboard: http://ai.baidu.com/broad/leaderboard?dataset=dureader

SystemROUGE-LBLEU-4Note
AliReader63.4861.54-
NI-Reader (ensemble)63.3859.23-
mrc_try_mingyan (single model)62.2059.72-
(Yan et al., 2018)50.7149.39-
(Li et al., 2018)44.9542.68-
(Wang et al., 2018)44.1840.97-
(Xu et al., 2018)39.6034.76-
Match-LSTM (He et al., 2018)39.231.9-
BiDAF (He et al., 2018)39.031.8-

CMRC 2018

Leaderboard: https://hfl-rc.github.io/cmrc2018/open_challenge/

SystemDEV-EMDEV-F1TEST-EMTEST-F1CHALLENGE-EMCHALLENGE-F1Note
P-Reader (single model)59.89481.49965.18984.38615.07939.583-
GM-Reader (ensemble)58.93180.06964.04583.04615.67537.315-
MCA-Reader (ensemble)66.69885.53871.17588.09015.47637.104-
Z-Reader (single model)79.77692.69674.17888.14513.88937.422-
SRC->DS(±) (Yang et al., 2019)49.265.4-----

More detailed results can be obtained in CMRC 2018 Overview. Note that, some of the submission are using development set for training as well.

DRCD

SystemDEV-EMDEV-F1TEST-EMTEST-EMNote
SRC + DS(±) (Yang et al., 2019)55.467.7---
r-net (single model)--29.144.4-

C^3

SystemDEV-1ATEST-1ADEV-1BTEST-1BDEV-2ATEST-2ADEV-2BTEST-2BNote
BERT_CN (Sun et al., 2019)63.062.662.362.136.726.234.731.3-

Chinese Reading Comprehension Evaluations and Competitions

Along with the release of these datasets, there are also several Chinese Reading Comprehension evaluation workshops or competitions which further accelerate the research on this topic.

  1. The First Evaluation Workshop on Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension (CMRC 2017)
    Host: CIPS-CL, Joint Laboratory of HIT and iFLYTEK Research (HFL), iFLYTEK Co. Ltd
    Competition Type: Cloze-style RC, User Query RC
  1. The Second Evaluation Workshop on Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension (CMRC 2018)
    Host: CIPS-CL, Joint Laboratory of HIT and iFLYTEK Research (HFL), iFLYTEK Co. Ltd
    Competition Type: Span-Extraction RC
  1. 2018 NLP Challenge on Machine Reading Comprehension
    Host: CCF, CIPSC, Baidu Inc.
    Competition Type: Open-Domain RC
  1. CIPS-SOGOU QA Competition
    Host: CIPSC, SOGOU
    Competition Type: Factoid QA, Non-Factoid QA
  1. The Third Evaluation Workshop on Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension (CMRC 2019)
    Host: CIPS-CL, Joint Laboratory of HIT and iFLYTEK Research (HFL), iFLYTEK Co. Ltd
    Competition Type: Sentence Cloze
  1. 2019 NLP Language and Intelligence Challenge
    Host: CCF, CIPSC, Baidu Inc.
    Competition Type: Open-Domain RC
  1. Chinese Idiom Understanding Contest
    Host: CCF, Tsinghua University
    Competition Type: Cloze Test

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