Qiu Ran, Yankai Lin, Peng Li, Jie zhou, Zhiyuan Liu
Numerical reasoning, such as addition, subtraction, sorting and counting is a critical skill in human's reading comprehension, which has not been well considered in existing machine reading comprehension (MRC) systems. To address this issue, we propose a numerical MRC model named as NumNet, which utilizes a numerically-aware graph neural network to consider the comparing information and performs numerical reasoning over numbers in the question and passage. Our system achieves an EM-score of 64.56% on the DROP dataset, outperforming all existing machine reading comprehension models by considering the numerical relations among numbers.
| Task | Dataset | Metric | Value | Model |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Question Answering | DROP Test | F1 | 67.97 | NumNet |