In this task, you will be presented with a context from an academic paper and a question based on the context. You have to classify the questions into "Extractive", "Abstractive", or "Yes-no" questions. Extractive questions can be answered by concatenating extracts taken from a context into a summary while answering abstractive questions involves paraphrasing the context using novel sentences. Yes-no question is a question whose expected answer is one of two choices, one that affirms the question and one that denies the question. Typically, the choices are either yes or no.

Example Input: N-GrAM ranked first in all cases except for the language variety task. In this case, the baseline was the top-ranked system, and ours was second by a small margin. Our system significantly out-performed the baseline on the joint task, as the baseline scored significantly lower for the gender task than for the variety task.

 
 Question: On which task does do model do worst?
Example Output: Abstractive

Example Input: We compare FSDM with four baseline methods and two ablations.

NDM BIBREF7 proposes a modular end-to-end trainable network. It applies de-lexicalization on user utterances and responses.

LIDM BIBREF9 improves over NDM by employing a discrete latent variable to learn underlying dialogue acts. This allows the system to be refined by reinforcement learning.

KVRN BIBREF13 adopts a copy-augmented Seq2Seq model for agent response generation and uses an attention mechanism on the KB. It does not perform belief state tracking.

TSCP/RL BIBREF10 is a two-stage CopyNet which consists of one encoder and two copy-mechanism-augmented decoders for belief state and response generation. 
 Question: What baselines have been used in this work?
Example Output: Abstractive

Example Input: Co-Reference Resolution: To support multi-turn interactions, it is sometimes necessary to use co-reference resolution techniques for effective retrieval. In Macaw, we identify all the co-references from the last request of user to the conversation history. The same co-reference resolution outputs can be used for different query generation components. This can be a generic or action-specific component.

Query Generation: This component generates a query based on the past user-system interactions. The query generation component may take advantage of co-reference resolution for query expansion or re-writing.

Retrieval Model: This is the core ranking component that retrieves documents or passages from a large collection. Macaw can retrieve documents from an arbitrary document collection using the Indri python interface BIBREF9, BIBREF10. We also provide the support for web search using the Bing Web Search API. Macaw also allows multi-stage document re-ranking.

Result Generation: The retrieved documents can be too long to be presented using some interfaces. Result generation is basically a post-processing step ran on the retrieved result list. In case of question answering, it can employ answer selection or generation techniques, such as machine reading comprehension models. For example, Macaw features the DrQA model BIBREF11 for question answering. 
 Question: What functionality does Macaw provide?
Example Output:
Extractive