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Reading Comprehension

Answering questions about a text passage, testing understanding.

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  1. Natural Language Processing ✓ understood

    The field of AI that lets computers read, interpret, translate and generate human language, from spam filters and search to chatbots.

  2. Question Answering ✓ understood

    Systems that automatically answer questions posed in natural language, often by reading and comprehending text passages.

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Answering questions about a text passage, testing understanding.

This concept is essential for understanding natural language processing and forms a key part of modern AI systems.

  • Question Answering
  • NLP
  • SQuAD

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