prompt_front: You are given a scientific article and a question. Answer the question as concisely as you can, using a single phrase or sentence if possible. If the question cannot be answered based on the information in the article, write "unanswerable". If the question is a yes/no question, answer "yes", "no", or "unanswerable". Do not provide any explanation.

Please answer the questions based on the text provided below. What NLP tasks do they consider?
Context 1: Introduction
We posses a wealth of prior knowledge about many natural language processing tasks  For example, in text categorization, we know that words such as NBA, player, and basketball are strong indicators of the sports category BIBREF0 , and words like terrible, boring, and messing indicate a negative polarity while words like perfect, exciting, and moving suggest a positive polarity in sentiment classification 
A key problem arisen here, is how to leverage such knowledge to guide the learning process, an interesting problem for both NLP and machine learning communities  Previous studies addressing the problem fall into several lines  First, to leverage prior knowledge to label data BIBREF1 , BIBREF2   Second, to encode prior knowledge with a prior on parameters, which can be commonly seen in many Bayesian approaches BIBREF3 , BIBREF4   Third, to formalise prior knowledge with additional variables and dependencies BIBREF5   Last, to use prior knowledge to control the distributions over latent output variables BIBREF6 , BIBREF7 , BIBREF8 , which makes the output variables easily interpretable 
However, a crucial problem, which has rarely been addressed, is the bias in the prior knowledge that we supply to the learning model  Would the model be robust or sensitive to the prior knowledge? Or, which kind of knowledge is appropriate for the task? Let's see an example: we may be a baseball fan but unfamiliar with hockey so that we can provide a few number of feature words of baseball, but much less of hockey for a baseball-hockey classification task  Such prior knowledge may mislead the model with heavy bias to baseball  If the model cannot handle this situation appropriately, the performance may be undesirable 
In this paper, we investigate into the problem in the framework of Generalized Expectation Criteria BIBREF7   The study aims to reveal the factors of reducing the sensibility of the prior knowledge and therefore to make the model more robust and practical  To this end, we introduce auxiliary regularization terms in which our prior knowledge is formalized as distribution over output variables  Recall the example just mentioned, though we do not have enough knowledge to provide features for class hockey, it is easy for us to provide some neutral words, namely words that are not strong indicators of any class, like player here  As one of the factors revealed in this paper, supplying neutral feature words can boost the performance remarkably, making the model more robust 
More attractively, we do not need manual annotation to label these neutral feature words in our proposed approach 
More specifically, we explore three regularization terms to address the problem: (1) a regularization term associated with neutral features; (2) the maximum entropy of class distribution regularization term; and (3) the KL divergence between reference and predicted class distribution  For the first manner, we simply use the most common features as neutral features and assume the neutral features are distributed uniformly over class labels  For the second and third one, we assume we have some knowledge about the class distribution which will be detailed soon later 
To summarize, the main contributions of this work are as follows:
The rest of the paper is structured as follows: In Section 2, we briefly describe the generalized expectation criteria and present the proposed regularization terms  In Section 3, we conduct extensive experiments to justify the proposed methods  We survey related work in Section 4, and summarize our work in Section 5 
Method
We address the robustness problem on top of GE-FL BIBREF0 , a GE method which leverages labeled features as prior knowledge  A labeled feature is a strong indicator of a specific class and is manually provided to the classifier  For example, words like amazing, exciting can be labeled features for class positive in sentiment classification 
Generalized Expectation Criteria
Generalized expectation (GE) criteria BIBREF7 provides us a natural way to directly constrain the model in the preferred direction  For example, when we know the proportion of each class of the dataset in a classification task, we can guide the model to predict out a pre-specified class distribution 
Formally, in a parameter estimation objective function, a GE term expresses preferences on the value of some constraint functions about the model's expectation  Given a constraint function $G({\rm x}, y)$ , a conditional model distribution $p_\theta (y|\rm x)$ , an empirical distribution $\tilde{p}({\rm x})$ over input samples and a score function $S$ , a GE term can be expressed as follows:
$$S(E_{\tilde{p}({\rm x})}[E_{p_\theta (y|{\rm x})}[G({\rm x}, y)]])$$   (Eq  4)
Learning from Labeled Features
Druck et al  ge-fl proposed GE-FL to learn from labeled features using generalized expectation criteria  When given a set of labeled features $K$ , the reference distribution over classes of these features is denoted by $\hat{p}(y| x_k), k \in K$   GE-FL introduces the divergence between this reference distribution and the model predicted distribution $p_\theta (y | x_k)$ , as a term of the objective function:
$$\mathcal {O} = \sum _{k \in K} KL(\hat{p}(y|x_k) || p_\theta (y | x_k)) + \sum _{y,i} \frac{\theta _{yi}^2}{2 \sigma ^2}$$   (Eq  6)
where $\theta _{yi}$ is the model parameter which indicates the importance of word $i$ to class $y$   The predicted distribution $p_\theta (y | x_k)$ can be expressed as follows: $ p_\theta (y | x_k) = \frac{1}{C_k} \sum _{\rm x} p_\theta (y|{\rm x})I(x_k) $
in which $I(x_k)$ is 1 if feature $k$ occurs in instance ${\rm x}$ and 0 otherwise, $C_k = \sum _{\rm x} I(x_k)$ is the number of instances with a non-zero value of feature $k$ , and $p_\theta (y|{\rm x})$ takes a softmax form as follows: $ p_\theta (y|{\rm x}) = \frac{1}{Z(\rm x)}\exp (\sum _i \theta _{yi}x_i)  $
To solve the optimization problem, L-BFGS can be used for parameter estimation 
In the framework of GE, this term can be obtained by setting the constraint function $G({\rm x}, y) = \frac{1}{C_k} \vec{I} (y)I(x_k)$ , where $\vec{I}(y)$ is an indicator vector with 1 at the index corresponding to label $y$ and 0 elsewhere 
Regularization Terms
GE-FL reduces the heavy load of instance annotation and performs well when we provide prior knowledge with no bias  In our experiments, we observe that comparable numbers of labeled features for each class have to be supplied  But as mentioned before, it is often the case that we are not able to provide enough knowledge for some of the classes  For the baseball-hockey classification task, as shown before, GE-FL will predict most of the instances as baseball  In this section, we will show three terms to make the model more robust 
Neutral features are features that are not informative indicator of any classes, for instance, word player to the baseball-hockey classification task  Such features are usually frequent words across all categories  When we set the preference distribution of the neutral features to be uniform distributed, these neutral features will prevent the model from biasing to the class that has a dominate number of labeled features 
Formally, given a set of neutral features $K^{^{\prime }}$ , the uniform distribution is $\hat{p}_u(y|x_k) = \frac{1}{|C|}, k \in K^{^{\prime }}$ , where $|C|$ is the number of classes  The objective function with the new term becomes
$$\mathcal {O}_{NE} = \mathcal {O} + \sum _{k \in K^{^{\prime }}} KL(\hat{p}_u(y|x_k) || p_\theta (y | x_k)) $$   (Eq  9)
Note that we do not need manual annotation to provide neutral features  One simple way is to take the most common features as neutral features  Experimental results show that this strategy works successfully 
Another way to prevent the model from drifting from the desired direction is to constrain the predicted class distribution on unlabeled data  When lacking knowledge about the class distribution of the data, one feasible way is to take maximum entropy principle, as below:
$$\mathcal {O}_{ME} = \mathcal {O} + \lambda \sum _{y} p(y) \log p(y)$$   (Eq  11)
where $p(y)$ is the predicted class distribution, given by $ p(y) = \frac{1}{|X|} \sum _{\rm x} p_\theta (y | \rm x)  $ To control the influence of this term on the overall objective function, we can tune $\lambda $ according to the difference in the number of labeled features of each class  In this paper, we simply set $\lambda $ to be proportional to the total number of labeled features, say $\lambda = \beta |K|$  
This maximum entropy term can be derived by setting the constraint function to $G({\rm x}, y) = \vec{I}(y)$   Therefore, $E_{p_\theta (y|{\rm x})}[G({\rm x}, y)]$ is just the model distribution $p_\theta (y|{\rm x})$ and its expectation with the empirical distribution $\tilde{p}(\rm x)$ is simply the average over input samples, namely $p(y)$   When $S$ takes the maximum entropy form, we can derive the objective function as above 
Sometimes, we have already had much knowledge about the corpus, and can estimate the class distribution roughly without labeling instances  Therefore, we introduce the KL divergence between the predicted and reference class distributions into the objective function 
Given the preference class distribution $\hat{p}(y)$ , we modify the objective function as follows:
$$\mathcal {O}_{KL} &= \mathcal {O} + \lambda KL(\hat{p}(y) || p(y))$$   (Eq  13)
Similarly, we set $\lambda = \beta |K|$  
This divergence term can be derived by setting the constraint function to $G({\rm x}, y) = \vec{I}(y)$ and setting the score function to $S(\hat{p}, p) = \sum _i \hat{p}_i \log \frac{\hat{p}_i}{p_i}$ , where $p$ and $\hat{p}$ are distributions  Note that this regularization term involves the reference class distribution which will be discussed later 
Experiments
In this section, we first justify the approach when there exists unbalance in the number of labeled features or in class distribution  Then, to test the influence of $\lambda $ , we conduct some experiments with the method which incorporates the KL divergence of class distribution  Last, we evaluate our approaches in 9 commonly used text classification datasets  We set $\lambda = 5|K|$ by default in all experiments unless there is explicit declaration  The baseline we choose here is GE-FL BIBREF0 , a method based on generalization expectation criteria 
Data Preparation
We evaluate our methods on several commonly used datasets whose themes range from sentiment, web-page, science to medical and healthcare  We use bag-of-words feature and remove stopwords in the preprocess stage  Though we have labels of all documents, we do not use them during the learning process, instead, we use the label of features 
The movie dataset, in which the task is to classify the movie reviews as positive or negtive, is used for testing the proposed approaches with unbalanced labeled features, unbalanced datasets or different $\lambda $ parameters  All unbalanced datasets are constructed based on the movie dataset by randomly removing documents of the positive class  For each experiment, we conduct 10-fold cross validation 
As described in BIBREF0 , there are two ways to obtain labeled features  The first way is to use information gain  We first calculate the mutual information of all features according to the labels of the documents and select the top 20 as labeled features for each class as a feature pool  Note that using information gain requires the document label, but this is only to simulate how we human provide prior knowledge to the model  The second way is to use LDA BIBREF9 to select features  We use the same selection process as BIBREF0 , where they first train a LDA on the dataset, and then select the most probable features of each topic (sorted by $P(w_i|t_j)$ , the probability of word $w_i$ given topic $t_j$ ) 
Similar to BIBREF10 , BIBREF0 , we estimate the reference distribution of the labeled features using a heuristic strategy  If there are $|C|$ classes in total, and $n$ classes are associated with a feature $k$ , the probability that feature $k$ is related with any one of the $n$ classes is $\frac{0 9}{n}$ and with any other class is $\frac{0 1}{|C| - n}$  
Neutral features are the most frequent words after removing stop words, and their reference distributions are uniformly distributed  We use the top 10 frequent words as neutral features in all experiments 
With Unbalanced Labeled Features
In this section, we evaluate our approach when there is unbalanced knowledge on the categories to be classified  The labeled features are obtained through information gain  Two settings are chosen:
(a) We randomly select $t \in [1, 20]$ features from the feature pool for one class, and only one feature for the other  The original balanced movie dataset is used (positive:negative=1:1) 
(b) Similar to (a), but the dataset is unbalanced, obtained by randomly removing 75% positive documents (positive:negative=1:4) 
As shown in Figure 1 , Maximum entropy principle shows improvement only on the balanced case  An obvious reason is that maximum entropy only favors uniform distribution 
Incorporating Neutral features performs similarly to maximum entropy since we assume that neutral words are uniformly distributed  Its accuracy decreases slowly when the number of labeled features becomes larger ( $t>4$ ) (Figure 1 (a)), suggesting that the model gradually biases to the class with more labeled features, just like GE-FL 
Incorporating the KL divergence of class distribution performs much better than GE-FL on both balanced and unbalanced datasets  This shows that it is effective to control the unbalance in labeled features and in the dataset 
With Balanced Labeled Features
We also compare with the baseline when the labeled features are balanced  Similar to the experiment above, the labeled features are obtained by information gain  Two settings are experimented with:
(a) We randomly select $t \in [1, 20]$ features from the feature pool for each class, and conduct comparisons on the original balanced movie dataset (positive:negtive=1:1) 
(b) Similar to (a), but the class distribution is unbalanced, by randomly removing 75% positive documents (positive:negative=1:4) 
Results are shown in Figure 2   When the dataset is balanced (Figure 2 (a)), there is little difference between GE-FL and our methods  The reason is that the proposed regularization terms provide no additional knowledge to the model and there is no bias in the labeled features  On the unbalanced dataset (Figure 2 (b)), incorporating KL divergence is much better than GE-FL since we provide additional knowledge(the true class distribution), but maximum entropy and neutral features are much worse because forcing the model to approach the uniform distribution misleads it 
With Unbalanced Class Distributions
Our methods are also evaluated on datasets with different unbalanced class distributions  We manually construct several movie datasets with class distributions of 1:2, 1:3, 1:4 by randomly removing 50%, 67%, 75% positive documents  The original balanced movie dataset is used as a control group  We test with both balanced and unbalanced labeled features  For the balanced case, we randomly select 10 features from the feature pool for each class, and for the unbalanced case, we select 10 features for one class, and 1 feature for the other  Results are shown in Figure 3  
Figure 3 (a) shows that when the dataset and the labeled features are both balanced, there is little difference between our methods and GE-FL(also see Figure 2 (a))  But when the class distribution becomes more unbalanced, the difference becomes more remarkable  Performance of neutral features and maximum entropy decrease significantly but incorporating KL divergence increases remarkably  This suggests if we have more accurate knowledge about class distribution, KL divergence can guide the model to the right direction 
Figure 3 (b) shows that when the labeled features are unbalanced, our methods significantly outperforms GE-FL  Incorporating KL divergence is robust enough to control unbalance both in the dataset and in labeled features while the other three methods are not so competitive 
The Influence of λ\lambda 
We present the influence of $\lambda $ on the method that incorporates KL divergence in this section  Since we simply set $\lambda = \beta |K|$ , we just tune $\beta $ here  Note that when $\beta = 0$ , the newly introduced regularization term is disappeared, and thus the model is actually GE-FL  Again, we test the method with different $\lambda $ in two settings:
(a) We randomly select $t \in [1, 20]$ features from the feature pool for one class, and only one feature for the other class  The original balanced movie dataset is used (positive:negative=1:1) 
(b) Similar to (a), but the dataset is unbalanced, obtained by randomly removing 75% positive documents (positive:negative=1:4) 
Results are shown in Figure 4   As expected, $\lambda $ reflects how strong the regularization is  The model tends to be closer to our preferences with the increasing of $\lambda $ on both cases 
Using LDA Selected Features
We compare our methods with GE-FL on all the 9 datasets in this section  Instead of using features obtained by information gain, we use LDA to select labeled features  Unlike information gain, LDA does not employ any instance labels to find labeled features  In this setting, we can build classification models without any instance annotation, but just with labeled features 
Table 1 shows that our three methods significantly outperform GE-FL  Incorporating neutral features performs better than GE-FL on 7 of the 9 datasets, maximum entropy is better on 8 datasets, and KL divergence better on 7 datasets 
LDA selects out the most predictive features as labeled features without considering the balance among classes  GE-FL does not exert any control on such an issue, so the performance is severely suffered  Our methods introduce auxiliary regularization terms to control such a bias problem and thus promote the model significantly 
Related Work
There have been much work that incorporate prior knowledge into learning, and two related lines are surveyed here  One is to use prior knowledge to label unlabeled instances and then apply a standard learning algorithm  The other is to constrain the model directly with prior knowledge 
Liu et al text manually labeled features which are highly predictive to unsupervised clustering assignments and use them to label unlabeled data  Chang et al guiding proposed constraint driven learning  They first used constraints and the learned model to annotate unlabeled instances, and then updated the model with the newly labeled data  Daumé daume2008cross proposed a self training method in which several models are trained on the same dataset, and only unlabeled instances that satisfy the cross task knowledge constraints are used in the self training process 
MaCallum et al gec proposed generalized expectation(GE) criteria which formalised the knowledge as constraint terms about the expectation of the model into the objective function Graça et al pr proposed posterior regularization(PR) framework which projects the model's posterior onto a set of distributions that satisfy the auxiliary constraints  Druck et al ge-fl explored constraints of labeled features in the framework of GE by forcing the model's predicted feature distribution to approach the reference distribution  Andrzejewski et al andrzejewski2011framework proposed a framework in which general domain knowledge can be easily incorporated into LDA  Altendorf et al altendorf2012learning explored monotonicity constraints to improve the accuracy while learning from sparse data  Chen et al chen2013leveraging tried to learn comprehensible topic models by leveraging multi-domain knowledge 
Mann and McCallum simple,generalized incorporated not only labeled features but also other knowledge like class distribution into the objective function of GE-FL  But they discussed only from the semi-supervised perspective and did not investigate into the robustness problem, unlike what we addressed in this paper 
There are also some active learning methods trying to use prior knowledge  Raghavan et al feedback proposed to use feedback on instances and features interlacedly, and demonstrated that feedback on features boosts the model much  Druck et al active proposed an active learning method which solicits labels on features rather than on instances and then used GE-FL to train the model 
Conclusion and Discussions
This paper investigates into the problem of how to leverage prior knowledge robustly in learning models  We propose three regularization terms on top of generalized expectation criteria  As demonstrated by the experimental results, the performance can be considerably improved when taking into account these factors  Comparative results show that our proposed methods is more effective and works more robustly against baselines  To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to address the robustness problem of leveraging knowledge, and may inspire other research 
We then present more detailed discussions about the three regularization methods  Incorporating neutral features is the simplest way of regularization, which doesn't require any modification of GE-FL but just finding out some common features  But as Figure 1 (a) shows, only using neutral features are not strong enough to handle extremely unbalanced labeled features 
The maximum entropy regularization term shows the strong ability of controlling unbalance 
This method doesn't need any extra knowledge, and is thus suitable when we know nothing about the corpus  But this method assumes that the categories are uniformly distributed, which may not be the case in practice, and it will have a degraded performance if the assumption is violated (see Figure 1 (b), Figure 2 (b), Figure 3 (a)) 
The KL divergence performs much better on unbalanced corpora than other methods  The reason is that KL divergence utilizes the reference class distribution and doesn't make any assumptions  The fact suggests that additional knowledge does benefit the model 
However, the KL divergence term requires providing the true class distribution  Sometimes, we may have the exact knowledge about the true distribution, but sometimes we may not  Fortunately, the model is insensitive to the true distribution and therefore a rough estimation of the true distribution is sufficient  In our experiments, when the true class distribution is 1:2, where the reference class distribution is set to 1:1 5/1:2/1:2 5, the accuracy is 0 755/0 756/0 760 respectively  This provides us the possibility to perform simple computing on the corpus to obtain the distribution in reality  Or, we can set the distribution roughly with domain expertise 
Context 2: Introduction
Reading Comprehension (RC) has become a central task in natural language processing, with great practical value in various industries  In recent years, many large-scale RC datasets in English BIBREF0, BIBREF1, BIBREF2, BIBREF3, BIBREF4, BIBREF5, BIBREF6 have nourished the development of numerous powerful and diverse RC models BIBREF7, BIBREF8, BIBREF9, BIBREF10, BIBREF11  The state-of-the-art model BIBREF12 on SQuAD, one of the most widely used RC benchmarks, even surpasses human-level performance  Nonetheless, RC on languages other than English has been limited due to the absence of sufficient training data  Although some efforts have been made to create RC datasets for Chinese BIBREF13, BIBREF14 and Korean BIBREF15, it is not feasible to collect RC datasets for every language since annotation efforts to collect a new RC dataset are often far from trivial  Therefore, the setup of transfer learning, especially zero-shot learning, is of extraordinary importance 
Existing methods BIBREF16 of cross-lingual transfer learning on RC datasets often count on machine translation (MT) to translate data from source language into target language, or vice versa  These methods may not require a well-annotated RC dataset for the target language, whereas a high-quality MT model is needed as a trade-off, which might not be available when it comes to low-resource languages 
In this paper, we leverage pre-trained multilingual language representation, for example, BERT learned from multilingual un-annotated sentences (multi-BERT), in cross-lingual zero-shot RC  We fine-tune multi-BERT on the training set in source language, then test the model in target language, with a number of combinations of source-target language pair to explore the cross-lingual ability of multi-BERT  Surprisingly, we find that the models have the ability to transfer between low lexical similarity language pair, such as English and Chinese  Recent studies BIBREF17, BIBREF12, BIBREF18 show that cross-lingual language models have the ability to enable preliminary zero-shot transfer on simple natural language understanding tasks, but zero-shot transfer of RC has not been studied  To our knowledge, this is the first work systematically exploring the cross-lingual transferring ability of multi-BERT on RC tasks 
Zero-shot Transfer with Multi-BERT
Multi-BERT has showcased its ability to enable cross-lingual zero-shot learning on the natural language understanding tasks including XNLI BIBREF19, NER, POS, Dependency Parsing, and so on  We now seek to know if a pre-trained multi-BERT has ability to solve RC tasks in the zero-shot setting 
Zero-shot Transfer with Multi-BERT ::: Experimental Setup and Data
We have training and testing sets in three different languages: English, Chinese and Korean  The English dataset is SQuAD BIBREF2  The Chinese dataset is DRCD BIBREF14, a Chinese RC dataset with 30,000+ examples in the training set and 10,000+ examples in the development set  The Korean dataset is KorQuAD BIBREF15, a Korean RC dataset with 60,000+ examples in the training set and 10,000+ examples in the development set, created in exactly the same procedure as SQuAD  We always use the development sets of SQuAD, DRCD and KorQuAD for testing since the testing sets of the corpora have not been released yet 
Next, to construct a diverse cross-lingual RC dataset with compromised quality, we translated the English and Chinese datasets into more languages, with Google Translate  An obvious issue with this method is that some examples might no longer have a recoverable span  To solve the problem, we use fuzzy matching to find the most possible answer, which calculates minimal edit distance between translated answer and all possible spans  If the minimal edit distance is larger than min(10, lengths of translated answer - 1), we drop the examples during training, and treat them as noise when testing  In this way, we can recover more than 95% of examples  The following generated datasets are recovered with same setting 
The pre-trained multi-BERT is the official released one  This multi-lingual version of BERT were pre-trained on corpus in 104 languages  Data in different languages were simply mixed in batches while pre-training, without additional effort to align between languages  When fine-tuning, we simply adopted the official training script of BERT, with default hyperparameters, to fine-tune each model until training loss converged 
Zero-shot Transfer with Multi-BERT ::: Experimental Results
Table TABREF6 shows the result of different models trained on either Chinese or English and tested on Chinese  In row (f), multi-BERT is fine-tuned on English but tested on Chinese, which achieves competitive performance compared with QANet trained on Chinese  We also find that multi-BERT trained on English has relatively lower EM compared with the model with comparable F1 scores  This shows that the model learned with zero-shot can roughly identify the answer spans in context but less accurate  In row (c), we fine-tuned a BERT model pre-trained on English monolingual corpus (English BERT) on Chinese RC training data directly by appending fastText-initialized Chinese word embeddings to the original word embeddings of English-BERT  Its F1 score is even lower than that of zero-shot transferring multi-BERT (rows (c) v s  (e))  The result implies multi-BERT does acquire better cross-lingual capability through pre-training on multilingual corpus  Table TABREF8 shows the results of multi-BERT fine-tuned on different languages and then tested on English , Chinese and Korean  The top half of the table shows the results of training data without translation  It is not surprising that when the training and testing sets are in the same language, the best results are achieved, and multi-BERT shows transfer capability when training and testing sets are in different languages, especially between Chinese and Korean 
In the lower half of Table TABREF8, the results are obtained by the translated training data  First, we found that when testing on English and Chinese, translation always degrades the performance (En v s  En-XX, Zh v s  Zh-XX)  Even though we translate the training data into the same language as testing data, using the untranslated data still yield better results  For example, when testing on English, the F1 score of the model training on Chinese (Zh) is 53 8, while the F1 score is only 44 1 for the model training on Zh-En  This shows that translation degrades the quality of data  There are some exceptions when testing on Korean  Translating the English training data into Chinese, Japanese and Korean still improve the performance on Korean  We also found that when translated into the same language, the English training data is always better than the Chinese data (En-XX v s  Zh-XX), with only one exception (En-Fr v s  Zh-Fr when testing on KorQuAD)  This may be because we have less Chinese training data than English  These results show that the quality and the size of dataset are much more important than whether the training and testing are in the same language or not 
Zero-shot Transfer with Multi-BERT ::: Discussion ::: The Effect of Machine Translation
Table TABREF8 shows that fine-tuning on un-translated target language data achieves much better performance than data translated into the target language  Because the above statement is true across all the languages, it is a strong evidence that translation degrades the performance

ground_truth: text classification for themes including sentiment, web-page, science, medical and healthcare

prompt_front: You are given a scientific article and a question. Answer the question as concisely as you can, using a single phrase or sentence if possible. If the question cannot be answered based on the information in the article, write "unanswerable". If the question is a yes/no question, answer "yes", "no", or "unanswerable". Do not provide any explanation.

Please answer the questions based on the text provided below. What is the model performance on target language reading comprehension?
Context 2: We notice that the translated corpus and untranslated corpus are not the same  This may be another factor that influences the results  Conducting an experiment between un-translated and back-translated data may deal with this problem 
Zero-shot Transfer with Multi-BERT ::: Discussion ::: The Effect of Other Factors
Here we discuss the case that the training data are translated  We consider each result is affected by at least three factors: (1) training corpus, (2) data size, (3) whether the source corpus is translated into the target language  To study the effect of data-size, we conducted an extra experiment where we down-sampled the size of English data to be the same as Chinese corpus, and used the down-sampled corpus to train  Then We carried out one-way ANOVA test and found out the significance of the three factors are ranked as below: (1) > (2) >> (3)  The analysis supports that the characteristics of training data is more important than translated into target language or not  Therefore, although translation degrades the performance, whether translating the corpus into the target language is not critical 
What Does Zero-shot Transfer Model Learn? ::: Unseen Language Dataset
It has been shown that extractive QA tasks like SQuAD may be tackled by some language independent strategies, for example, matching words in questions and context BIBREF20  Is zero-shot learning feasible because the model simply learns this kind of language independent strategies on one language and apply to the other?
To verify whether multi-BERT largely counts on a language independent strategy, we test the model on the languages unseen during pre-training  To make sure the languages have never been seen before, we artificially make unseen languages by permuting the whole vocabulary of existing languages  That is, all the words in the sentences of a specific language are replaced by other words in the same language to form the sentences in the created unseen language  It is assumed that if multi-BERT used to find answers by language independent strategy, then multi-BERT should also do well on unseen languages  Table TABREF14 shows that the performance of multi-BERT drops drastically on the dataset  It implies that multi-BERT might not totally rely on pattern matching when finding answers 
What Does Zero-shot Transfer Model Learn? ::: Embedding in Multi-BERT
PCA projection of hidden representations of the last layer of multi-BERT before and after fine-tuning are shown in Fig  FIGREF15  The red points represent Chinese tokens, and the blue points are for English  The results show that tokens from different languages might be embedded into the same space with close spatial distribution  Even though during the fine-tuning only the English data is used, the embedding of the Chinese token changed accordingly  We also quantitatively evaluate the similarities between the embedding of the languages  The results can be found in the Appendix 
What Does Zero-shot Transfer Model Learn? ::: Code-switching Dataset
We observe linguistic-agnostic representations in the last subsection  If tokens are represented in a language-agnostic way, the model may be able to handle code-switching data  Because there is no code-switching data for RC, we create artificial code-switching datasets by replacing some of the words in contexts or questions with their synonyms in another language  The synonyms are found by word-by-word translation with given dictionaries  We use the bilingual dictionaries collected and released in facebookresearch/MUSE GitHub repository  We substitute the words if and only if the words are in the bilingual dictionaries 
Table TABREF14 shows that on all the code-switching datasets, the EM/F1 score drops, indicating that the semantics of representations are not totally disentangled from language  However, the examples of the answers of the model (Table TABREF21) show that multi-BERT could find the correct answer spans although some keywords in the spans have been translated into another language 
What Does Zero-shot Transfer Model Learn? ::: Typology-manipulated Dataset
There are various types of typology in languages  For example, in English the typology order is subject-verb-object (SVO) order, but in Japanese and Korean the order is subject-object-verb (SOV)  We construct a typology-manipulated dataset to examine if the typology order of the training data influences the transfer learning results  If the model only learns the semantic mapping between different languages, changing English typology order from SVO to SOV should improve the transfer ability from English to Japanese  The method used to generate datasets is the same as BIBREF21 
The source code is from a GitHub repository named Shaul1321/rnn_typology, which labels given sentences to CoNLL format with StanfordCoreNLP and then re-arranges them greedily 
Table TABREF23 shows that when we change the English typology order to SOV or OSV order, the performance on Korean is improved and worsen on English and Chinese, but very slightly  The results show that the typology manipulation on the training set has little influence  It is possible that multi-BERT normalizes the typology order of different languages to some extent 
Conclusion
In this paper, we systematically explore zero-shot cross-lingual transfer learning on RC with multi-BERT  The experimental results on English, Chinese and Korean corpora show that even when the languages for training and testing are different, reasonable performance can be obtained  Furthermore, we created several artificial data to study the cross-lingual ability of multi-BERT in the presence of typology variation and code-switching  We showed that only token-level pattern matching is not sufficient for multi-BERT to answer questions and typology variation and code-switching only caused minor effects on testing performance 
Supplemental Material ::: Internal Representation of multi-BERT
The architecture of multi-BERT is a Transformer encoder BIBREF25  While fine-tuning on SQuAD-like dataset, the bottom layers of multi-BERT are initialized from Google-pretrained parameters, with an added output layer initialized from random parameters  Tokens representations from the last layer of bottom-part of multi-BERT are inputs to the output layer and then the output layer outputs a distribution over all tokens that indicates the probability of a token being the START/END of an answer span 
Supplemental Material ::: Internal Representation of multi-BERT ::: Cosine Similarity
As all translated versions of SQuAD/DRCD are parallel to each other  Given a source-target language pair, we calculate cosine similarity of the mean pooling of tokens representation within corresponding answer-span as a measure of how much they look like in terms of the internal representation of multi-BERT  The results are shown in Fig  FIGREF26 
Supplemental Material ::: Internal Representation of multi-BERT ::: SVCCA
Singular Vector Canonical Correlation Analysis (SVCCA) is a general method to compare the correlation of two sets of vector representations  SVCCA has been proposed to compare learned representations across language models BIBREF24  Here we adopt SVCCA to measure the linear similarity of two sets of representations in the same multi-BERT from different translated datasets, which are parallel to each other  The results are shown in Fig FIGREF28 
Supplemental Material ::: Improve Transfering
In the paper, we show that internal representations of multi-BERT are linear-mappable to some extent between different languages  This implies that multi-BERT model might encode semantic and syntactic information in language-agnostic ways and explains how zero-shot transfer learning could be done 
To take a step further, while transfering model from source dataset to target dataset, we align representations in two proposed way, to improve performance on target dataset 
Supplemental Material ::: Improve Transfering ::: Linear Mapping Method
Algorithms proposed in BIBREF23, BIBREF22, BIBREF26 to unsupervisedly learn linear mapping between two sets of embeddings are used here to align representations of source (training data) to those of target  We obtain the mapping generated by embeddings from one specific layer of pre-trained multi-BERT then we apply this mapping to transform the internal representations of multi-BERT while fine-tuning on training data 
Supplemental Material ::: Improve Transfering ::: Adversarial Method
In Adversarial Method, we add an additional transform layer to transform representations and a discrimination layer to discriminate between transformed representations from source language (training set) and target language (development set)  And the GAN loss is applied in the total loss of fine-tuning 
Supplemental Material ::: Improve Transfering ::: Discussion
As table TABREF33 shows, there are no improvements among above methods  Some linear mapping methods even causes devastating effect on EM/F1 scores 
Context 3: Introduction
In the kitchen, we increasingly rely on instructions from cooking websites: recipes  A cook with a predilection for Asian cuisine may wish to prepare chicken curry, but may not know all necessary ingredients apart from a few basics  These users with limited knowledge cannot rely on existing recipe generation approaches that focus on creating coherent recipes given all ingredients and a recipe name BIBREF0  Such models do not address issues of personal preference (e g  culinary tastes, garnish choices) and incomplete recipe details  We propose to approach both problems via personalized generation of plausible, user-specific recipes using user preferences extracted from previously consumed recipes 
Our work combines two important tasks from natural language processing and recommender systems: data-to-text generation BIBREF1 and personalized recommendation BIBREF2  Our model takes as user input the name of a specific dish, a few key ingredients, and a calorie level  We pass these loose input specifications to an encoder-decoder framework and attend on user profiles—learned latent representations of recipes previously consumed by a user—to generate a recipe personalized to the user's tastes  We fuse these `user-aware' representations with decoder output in an attention fusion layer to jointly determine text generation  Quantitative (perplexity, user-ranking) and qualitative analysis on user-aware model outputs confirm that personalization indeed assists in generating plausible recipes from incomplete ingredients 
While personalized text generation has seen success in conveying user writing styles in the product review BIBREF3, BIBREF4 and dialogue BIBREF5 spaces, we are the first to consider it for the problem of recipe generation, where output quality is heavily dependent on the content of the instructions—such as ingredients and cooking techniques 
To summarize, our main contributions are as follows:
We explore a new task of generating plausible and personalized recipes from incomplete input specifications by leveraging historical user preferences;
We release a new dataset of 180K+ recipes and 700K+ user reviews for this task;
We introduce new evaluation strategies for generation quality in instructional texts, centering on quantitative measures of coherence  We also show qualitatively and quantitatively that personalized models generate high-quality and specific recipes that align with historical user preferences 
Related Work
Large-scale transformer-based language models have shown surprising expressivity and fluency in creative and conditional long-text generation BIBREF6, BIBREF7  Recent works have proposed hierarchical methods that condition on narrative frameworks to generate internally consistent long texts BIBREF8, BIBREF9, BIBREF10  Here, we generate procedurally structured recipes instead of free-form narratives 
Recipe generation belongs to the field of data-to-text natural language generation BIBREF1, which sees other applications in automated journalism BIBREF11, question-answering BIBREF12, and abstractive summarization BIBREF13, among others  BIBREF14, BIBREF15 model recipes as a structured collection of ingredient entities acted upon by cooking actions  BIBREF0 imposes a `checklist' attention constraint emphasizing hitherto unused ingredients during generation  BIBREF16 attend over explicit ingredient references in the prior recipe step  Similar hierarchical approaches that infer a full ingredient list to constrain generation will not help personalize recipes, and would be infeasible in our setting due to the potentially unconstrained number of ingredients (from a space of 10K+) in a recipe  We instead learn historical preferences to guide full recipe generation 
A recent line of work has explored user- and item-dependent aspect-aware review generation BIBREF3, BIBREF4  This work is related to ours in that it combines contextual language generation with personalization  Here, we attend over historical user preferences from previously consumed recipes to generate recipe content, rather than writing styles 
Approach
Our model's input specification consists of: the recipe name as a sequence of tokens, a partial list of ingredients, and a caloric level (high, medium, low)  It outputs the recipe instructions as a token sequence: $\mathcal {W}_r=\lbrace w_{r,0}, \dots , w_{r,T}\rbrace $ for a recipe $r$ of length $T$  To personalize output, we use historical recipe interactions of a user $u \in \mathcal {U}$ 
Encoder: Our encoder has three embedding layers: vocabulary embedding $\mathcal {V}$, ingredient embedding $\mathcal {I}$, and caloric-level embedding $\mathcal {C}$  Each token in the (length $L_n$) recipe name is embedded via $\mathcal {V}$; the embedded token sequence is passed to a two-layered bidirectional GRU (BiGRU) BIBREF17, which outputs hidden states for names $\lbrace \mathbf {n}_{\text{enc},j} \in \mathbb {R}^{2d_h}\rbrace $, with hidden size $d_h$  Similarly each of the $L_i$ input ingredients is embedded via $\mathcal {I}$, and the embedded ingredient sequence is passed to another two-layered BiGRU to output ingredient hidden states as $\lbrace \mathbf {i}_{\text{enc},j} \in \mathbb {R}^{2d_h}\rbrace $  The caloric level is embedded via $\mathcal {C}$ and passed through a projection layer with weights $W_c$ to generate calorie hidden representation $\mathbf {c}_{\text{enc}} \in \mathbb {R}^{2d_h}$ 
Ingredient Attention: We apply attention BIBREF18 over the encoded ingredients to use encoder outputs at each decoding time step  We define an attention-score function $\alpha $ with key $K$ and query $Q$:
with trainable weights $W_{\alpha }$, bias $\mathbf {b}_{\alpha }$, and normalization term $Z$  At decoding time $t$, we calculate the ingredient context $\mathbf {a}_{t}^{i} \in \mathbb {R}^{d_h}$ as:
Decoder: The decoder is a two-layer GRU with hidden state $h_t$ conditioned on previous hidden state $h_{t-1}$ and input token $w_{r, t}$ from the original recipe text  We project the concatenated encoder outputs as the initial decoder hidden state:
To bias generation toward user preferences, we attend over a user's previously reviewed recipes to jointly determine the final output token distribution  We consider two different schemes to model preferences from user histories: (1) recipe interactions, and (2) techniques seen therein (defined in data)  BIBREF19, BIBREF20, BIBREF21 explore similar schemes for personalized recommendation 
Prior Recipe Attention: We obtain the set of prior recipes for a user $u$: $R^+_u$, where each recipe can be represented by an embedding from a recipe embedding layer $\mathcal {R}$ or an average of the name tokens embedded by $\mathcal {V}$  We attend over the $k$-most recent prior recipes, $R^{k+}_u$, to account for temporal drift of user preferences BIBREF22  These embeddings are used in the `Prior Recipe' and `Prior Name' models, respectively 
Given a recipe representation $\mathbf {r} \in \mathbb {R}^{d_r}$ (where $d_r$ is recipe- or vocabulary-embedding size depending on the recipe representation) the prior recipe attention context $\mathbf {a}_{t}^{r_u}$ is calculated as
Prior Technique Attention: We calculate prior technique preference (used in the `Prior Tech` model) by normalizing co-occurrence between users and techniques seen in $R^+_u$, to obtain a preference vector $\rho _{u}$  Each technique $x$ is embedded via a technique embedding layer $\mathcal {X}$ to $\mathbf {x}\in \mathbb {R}^{d_x}$  Prior technique attention is calculated as
where, inspired by copy mechanisms BIBREF23, BIBREF24, we add $\rho _{u,x}$ for technique $x$ to emphasize the attention by the user's prior technique preference 
Attention Fusion Layer: We fuse all contexts calculated at time $t$, concatenating them with decoder GRU output and previous token embedding:
We then calculate the token probability:
and maximize the log-likelihood of the generated sequence conditioned on input specifications and user preferences  fig:ex shows a case where the Prior Name model attends strongly on previously consumed savory recipes to suggest the usage of an additional ingredient (`cilantro') 
Recipe Dataset: Food com
We collect a novel dataset of 230K+ recipe texts and 1M+ user interactions (reviews) over 18 years (2000-2018) from Food com  Here, we restrict to recipes with at least 3 steps, and at least 4 and no more than 20 ingredients  We discard users with fewer than 4 reviews, giving 180K+ recipes and 700K+ reviews, with splits as in tab:recipeixnstats 
Our model must learn to generate from a diverse recipe space: in our training data, the average recipe length is 117 tokens with a maximum of 256  There are 13K unique ingredients across all recipes  Rare words dominate the vocabulary: 95% of words appear $<$100 times, accounting for only 1 65% of all word usage  As such, we perform Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) tokenization BIBREF25, BIBREF26, giving a training vocabulary of 15K tokens across 19M total mentions  User profiles are similarly diverse: 50% of users have consumed $\le $6 recipes, while 10% of users have consumed $>$45 recipes 
We order reviews by timestamp, keeping the most recent review for each user as the test set, the second most recent for validation, and the remainder for training (sequential leave-one-out evaluation BIBREF27)  We evaluate only on recipes not in the training set 
We manually construct a list of 58 cooking techniques from 384 cooking actions collected by BIBREF15; the most common techniques (bake, combine, pour, boil) account for 36 5% of technique mentions  We approximate technique adherence via string match between the recipe text and technique list 
Experiments and Results
For training and evaluation, we provide our model with the first 3-5 ingredients listed in each recipe  We decode recipe text via top-$k$ sampling BIBREF7, finding $k=3$ to produce satisfactory results  We use a hidden size $d_h=256$ for both the encoder and decoder  Embedding dimensions for vocabulary, ingredient, recipe, techniques, and caloric level are 300, 10, 50, 50, and 5 (respectively)  For prior recipe attention, we set $k=20$, the 80th %-ile for the number of user interactions  We use the Adam optimizer BIBREF28 with a learning rate of $10^{-3}$, annealed with a decay rate of 0 9 BIBREF29  We also use teacher-forcing BIBREF30 in all training epochs

ground_truth: Table TABREF6, Table TABREF8

when testing on English, the F1 score of the model training on Chinese (Zh) is 53.8,  F1 score is only 44.1 for the model training on Zh-En

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Context 3: 
In this work, we investigate how leveraging historical user preferences can improve generation quality over strong baselines in our setting  We compare our personalized models against two baselines  The first is a name-based Nearest-Neighbor model (NN)  We initially adapted the Neural Checklist Model of BIBREF0 as a baseline; however, we ultimately use a simple Encoder-Decoder baseline with ingredient attention (Enc-Dec), which provides comparable performance and lower complexity  All personalized models outperform baseline in BPE perplexity (tab:metricsontest) with Prior Name performing the best  While our models exhibit comparable performance to baseline in BLEU-1/4 and ROUGE-L, we generate more diverse (Distinct-1/2: percentage of distinct unigrams and bigrams) and acceptable recipes  BLEU and ROUGE are not the most appropriate metrics for generation quality  A `correct' recipe can be written in many ways with the same main entities (ingredients)  As BLEU-1/4 capture structural information via n-gram matching, they are not correlated with subjective recipe quality  This mirrors observations from BIBREF31, BIBREF8 
We observe that personalized models make more diverse recipes than baseline  They thus perform better in BLEU-1 with more key entities (ingredient mentions) present, but worse in BLEU-4, as these recipes are written in a personalized way and deviate from gold on the phrasal level  Similarly, the `Prior Name' model generates more unigram-diverse recipes than other personalized models and obtains a correspondingly lower BLEU-1 score 
Qualitative Analysis: We present sample outputs for a cocktail recipe in tab:samplerecipes, and additional recipes in the appendix  Generation quality progressively improves from generic baseline output to a blended cocktail produced by our best performing model  Models attending over prior recipes explicitly reference ingredients  The Prior Name model further suggests the addition of lemon and mint, which are reasonably associated with previously consumed recipes like coconut mousse and pork skewers 
Personalization: To measure personalization, we evaluate how closely the generated text corresponds to a particular user profile  We compute the likelihood of generated recipes using identical input specifications but conditioned on ten different user profiles—one `gold' user who consumed the original recipe, and nine randomly generated user profiles  Following BIBREF8, we expect the highest likelihood for the recipe conditioned on the gold user  We measure user matching accuracy (UMA)—the proportion where the gold user is ranked highest—and Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR) BIBREF32 of the gold user  All personalized models beat baselines in both metrics, showing our models personalize generated recipes to the given user profiles  The Prior Name model achieves the best UMA and MRR by a large margin, revealing that prior recipe names are strong signals for personalization  Moreover, the addition of attention mechanisms to capture these signals improves language modeling performance over a strong non-personalized baseline 
Recipe Level Coherence: A plausible recipe should possess a coherent step order, and we evaluate this via a metric for recipe-level coherence  We use the neural scoring model from BIBREF33 to measure recipe-level coherence for each generated recipe  Each recipe step is encoded by BERT BIBREF34  Our scoring model is a GRU network that learns the overall recipe step ordering structure by minimizing the cosine similarity of recipe step hidden representations presented in the correct and reverse orders  Once pretrained, our scorer calculates the similarity of a generated recipe to the forward and backwards ordering of its corresponding gold label, giving a score equal to the difference between the former and latter  A higher score indicates better step ordering (with a maximum score of 2)  tab:coherencemetrics shows that our personalized models achieve average recipe-level coherence scores of 1 78-1 82, surpassing the baseline at 1 77 
Recipe Step Entailment: Local coherence is also crucial to a user following a recipe: it is crucial that subsequent steps are logically consistent with prior ones  We model local coherence as an entailment task: predicting the likelihood that a recipe step follows the preceding  We sample several consecutive (positive) and non-consecutive (negative) pairs of steps from each recipe  We train a BERT BIBREF34 model to predict the entailment score of a pair of steps separated by a [SEP] token, using the final representation of the [CLS] token  The step entailment score is computed as the average of scores for each set of consecutive steps in each recipe, averaged over every generated recipe for a model, as shown in tab:coherencemetrics 
Human Evaluation: We presented 310 pairs of recipes for pairwise comparison BIBREF8 (details in appendix) between baseline and each personalized model, with results shown in tab:metricsontest  On average, human evaluators preferred personalized model outputs to baseline 63% of the time, confirming that personalized attention improves the semantic plausibility of generated recipes  We also performed a small-scale human coherence survey over 90 recipes, in which 60% of users found recipes generated by personalized models to be more coherent and preferable to those generated by baseline models 
Conclusion
In this paper, we propose a novel task: to generate personalized recipes from incomplete input specifications and user histories  On a large novel dataset of 180K recipes and 700K reviews, we show that our personalized generative models can generate plausible, personalized, and coherent recipes preferred by human evaluators for consumption  We also introduce a set of automatic coherence measures for instructional texts as well as personalization metrics to support our claims  Our future work includes generating structured representations of recipes to handle ingredient properties, as well as accounting for references to collections of ingredients (e g  “dry mix") 
Acknowledgements  This work is partly supported by NSF #1750063  We thank all reviewers for their constructive suggestions, as well as Rei M , Sujoy P , Alicia L , Eric H , Tim S , Kathy C , Allen C , and Micah I  for their feedback 
Appendix ::: Food com: Dataset Details
Our raw data consists of 270K recipes and 1 4M user-recipe interactions (reviews) scraped from Food com, covering a period of 18 years (January 2000 to December 2018)  See tab:int-stats for dataset summary statistics, and tab:samplegk for sample information about one user-recipe interaction and the recipe involved 
Appendix ::: Generated Examples
See tab:samplechx for a sample recipe for chicken chili and tab:samplewaffle for a sample recipe for sweet waffles 
Human Evaluation
We prepared a set of 15 pairwise comparisons per evaluation session, and collected 930 pairwise evaluations (310 per personalized model) over 62 sessions  For each pair, users were given a partial recipe specification (name and 3-5 key ingredients), as well as two generated recipes labeled `A' and `B'  One recipe is generated from our baseline encoder-decoder model and one recipe is generated by one of our three personalized models (Prior Tech, Prior Name, Prior Recipe)  The order of recipe presentation (A/B) is randomly selected for each question  A screenshot of the user evaluation interface is given in fig:exeval  We ask the user to indicate which recipe they find more coherent, and which recipe best accomplishes the goal indicated by the recipe name  A screenshot of this survey interface is given in fig:exeval2 

ground_truth: name-based Nearest-Neighbor model (NN), Encoder-Decoder baseline with ingredient attention (Enc-Dec)