This invention relates to a selection-based reading comprehension method based on multi-view
graph encoding within a joint learning framework. First, this invention uses a multi-view
graph encoding network to jointly
encode documents, questions, and candidate answers from multiple different perspectives. It captures the relationships between sentences in the document and between document sentences and questions from three perspectives: statistical characteristics, relative distance, and deep
semantics, fully mining potential evidence information to obtain document encodings for question-answer pair
perception. Then, a binary classifier is used to determine whether each
sentence in the document is an evidence
sentence, thus implementing the function of the evidence extraction module. Finally, an answer prediction module is constructed, using the probability of document sentences obtained from the evidence extraction module as evidence to weight and selectively fuse the document encodings obtained from the multi-view
graph encoding network. Both modules are trained simultaneously within the joint learning framework, thereby achieving the goal of answer prediction. This invention has achieved good results on selection-based reading comprehension tasks.