In this task, you will be presented with a context from an academic paper and you have to write an answerable question based on the context. Your questions can be extractive, abstractive, or yes-no questions.

To tackle this issue we applying a back-translation method BIBREF13, where we translate indirect and physical harassment tweets of the train set from english to german, french and greek. After that, we translate them back to english in order to achieve data augmentation.
What language(s) is/are represented in the dataset?

We use the BLEU BIBREF30 metric on the validation set for the VQG model training. BLEU is a measure of similitude between generated and target sequences of words, widely used in natural language processing. It assumes that valid generated responses have significant word overlap with the ground truth responses. We use it because in this case we have five different references for each of the generated questions. We obtain a BLEU score of 2.07.

Our chatbot model instead, only have one reference ground truth in training when generating a sequence of words. We considered that it was not a good metric to apply as in some occasions responses have the same meaning, but do not share any words in common. Thus, we save several models with different hyperparameters and at different number of training iterations and compare them using human evaluation, to chose the model that performs better in a conversation.
How is performance of this system measured?

SCA BIBREF5 softly augments a randomly chosen word in a sentence by its contextual mixture of multiple related words, i.e., replacing the one-hot representation of a word by a distribution provided by a language model over the vocabulary.

How does soft contextual data augmentation work?