With the recent acceleration in global competition to develop AI technologies, contests are widespread in areas of computer vision (technologies to analyze characters and images) and visual Q&A to solve problems using recognized images of characters as well as machine reading comprehension."We are developing an AI algorithm to provide answers to user queries in a simpler and more convenient manner, for real-life purposes,” said Jihie Kim, Head of Language Understanding Lab at Samsung Research.With intense competition in developing AI technologies globally, machine reading comprehension competitions such as MS MARCO are booming around the world. For MS MARCO and TriviaQA, AI algorithms are tested in their capabilities of processing natural language in human Q&As and also providing written text in various types of documents such as news articles and blog posts. The ICDAR is the most influential competition in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technologies.Samsung Research recently placed first in the MAchine Reading COmprehension (MS MARCO) Competition held by Microsoft (MS), as well as showing the best performance in TriviaQA hosted by the Socks Machine University of Washington, proving the excellence of its AI algorithm.For example in MS MARCO, ten web documents are presented for a certain query to let an AI algorithm create an optimum answer. Answers are evaluated statistically by estimating how close they are with human answers.”Queries are randomly selected from a million queries from Bing (MS search engine) users.

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