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.

Q: In an offline step, we organize the content of each instance in a graph where each node represents a sentence from the passages and the question. Then, we add edges between nodes using the following topology:

we fully connect nodes that represent sentences from the same passage (dotted-black);

we fully connect nodes that represent the first sentence of each passage (dotted-red);

we add an edge between the question and every node for each passage (dotted-blue).

A: How are some nodes initially connected based on text structure?
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Q: Throughout all our experiments, we used BERT-Base BIBREF2 to provide the state-of-the-art contextualized modeling of the input text.

Semantic Retrieval: We treated the neural semantic retrieval at both the paragraph and sentence level as binary classification problems with models' parameters updated by minimizing binary cross entropy loss.

A: How do they model the neural retrieval modules?
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Q: The decoder is the second LSTM network that uses the information obtained from the encoder to generate the sequence's story. The first input $x_0$ to the decoder is the image for which the text is being generated. The last hidden state from the encoder $h_e^{(t)}$ is used to initialize the first hidden state of the decoder $h_d^{(0)}$ . With this strategy, we provide the decoder with the context of the whole sequence and the content of the current image (i.e. global and local information) to generate the corresponding text that will contribute to the overall story.

A:
How is the sequential nature of the story captured?
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