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]: We compare our approaches with related approaches of pivoting, multilingual NMT (MNMT) BIBREF19, and cross-lingual transfer without pretraining BIBREF16. The results show that our approaches consistently outperform other approaches across languages and datasets, especially surpass pivoting, which is a strong baseline in the zero-shot scenario that multilingual NMT systems often fail to beat BIBREF19, BIBREF20, BIBREF23.
[A]: which multilingual approaches do they compare with?

[Q]: We compare the SBERT sentence embeddings to other sentence embeddings methods on the following seven SentEval transfer tasks:

MR: Sentiment prediction for movie reviews snippets on a five start scale BIBREF25.

CR: Sentiment prediction of customer product reviews BIBREF26.

SUBJ: Subjectivity prediction of sentences from movie reviews and plot summaries BIBREF27.

MPQA: Phrase level opinion polarity classification from newswire BIBREF28.

SST: Stanford Sentiment Treebank with binary labels BIBREF29.

TREC: Fine grained question-type classification from TREC BIBREF30.

MRPC: Microsoft Research Paraphrase Corpus from parallel news sources BIBREF31.
[A]: What transfer learning tasks are evaluated?

[Q]: Thus, for this work, we build upon Hybrid Code Networks (HCN) BIBREF4 since HCNs achieve state-of-the-art performance in a data-efficient way for task-oriented dialogs, and propose AE-HCNs which extend HCNs with an autoencoder (Figure FIGREF8 ). AE-HCN(-CNN) outperforms HCN on Test-OOD by a large margin about 17(20) points on average while keeping the minimum performance trade-off compared to Test.
[A]:
By how much does their method outperform state-of-the-art OOD detection?