Incorporating Option and Out-of-domain Knowledge for Multi-choice Machine Reading Comprehension

Abstract

Multi-choice Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) requires the model to select the correct answer from a set of answer candidates given the corresponding passage and question. Previous studies mainly focus on complex matching networks to model the relationship among options, passage and question. However, these models obtain little improvement over the powerful Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs). In this paper, we propose a simple method to incorporate option knowledge from PLMs and introduce out-of-domain knowledge by multi-task learning skillfully. Our approach obtains state-of-the-art results on Chinese multi-choice MRC dataset ReCO and also effectively improves the performance on C3.