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.

Input: Consider Input: To create training data for unanswerable question generation, we use (plausible) answer spans in paragraphs as pivots to align pairs of answerable questions and unanswerable questions. In this way, we obtain the data with which the models can learn to ask unanswerable questions by editing answerable ones with word exchanges, negations, etc.

Output: How do they ensure the generated questions are unanswerable?


Input: Consider Input: 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).

Output: How are some nodes initially connected based on text structure?


Input: Consider Input: Active learning methods can generally be described into two parts: a learning engine and a selection engine BIBREF28 . The learning engine is essentially a classifier, which is mainly used for training of classification problems. The selection engine is based on the sampling strategy, which chooses samples that need to be relabeled by annotators from unlabeled data. Then, relabeled samples are added to training set for classifier to re-train, thus continuously improving the accuracy of the classifier. In this paper, a CRF-based segmenter and a scoring model are employed as learning engine and selection engine, respectively.


Output: How does the active learning model work?