task_categories:question-answering task_ids:multiple-choice-qa annotations_creators:expert-generated language_creators:found multilinguality:monolingual size_categories:1K<n<10K language:en license:other explanations-in-question-answering region:us
MCTest requires machines to answer multiple-choice reading comprehension questions about fictional stories, directly tackling the high-level goal of open-domain machine comprehension.
@inproceedings{richardson-etal-2013-mctest,
    title = "{MCT}est: A Challenge Dataset for the Open-Domain Machine Comprehension of Text",
    author = "Richardson, Matthew  and
      Burges, Christopher J.C.  and
      Renshaw, Erin",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2013",
    address = "Seattle, Washington, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D13-1020",
    pages = "193--203",
}
---
annotations_creators:
- expert-generated
language_creators:
- found
language:
- en
license:
- other
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
source_datasets: []
task_categories:
- question-answering
task_ids:
- multiple-choice-qa
paperswithcode_id: mctest
language_bcp47:
- en-US
tags:
- explanations-in-question-answering
---

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## Table of Contents
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
  - [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
  - [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
  - [Data Fields](#data-fields)
  - [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
  - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
  - [Source Data](#source-data)
  - [Annotations](#annotations)
  - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
  - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
  - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
  - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
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