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.

Comparing the natural and artificial sources of our parallel data wrt. several linguistic and distributional properties, we observe that (see Fig. FIGREF21 - FIGREF22 ):

artificial sources are on average shorter than natural ones: when using BT, cases where the source is shorter than the target are rarer; cases when they have the same length are more frequent.

automatic word alignments between artificial sources tend to be more monotonic than when using natural sources, as measured by the average Kendall INLINEFORM0 of source-target alignments BIBREF22 : for French-English the respective numbers are 0.048 (natural) and 0.018 (artificial); for German-English 0.068 and 0.053. The intuition is that properties (i) and (ii) should help translation as compared to natural source, while property (iv) should be detrimental.
Question: what is their explanation for the effectiveness of back-translation?
Extractive

In the experiments, we compare model performance between GluonCV/NLP and other open source implementations with Caffe, Caffe2, Theano, and TensorFlow, including ResNet BIBREF8 and MobileNet BIBREF9 for image classification (ImageNet), Faster R-CNN BIBREF10 for object detection (COCO), Mask R-CNN BIBREF11 for instance segmentation, Simple Pose BIBREF12 for pose estimation (COCO), textCNN BIBREF13 for sentiment analysis (TREC), and BERT BIBREF14 for question answering (SQuAD 1.1), sentiment analysis (SST-2), natural langauge inference (MNLI-m), and paraphrasing (MRPC).
Question: Do they experiment with the toolkits?
Yes-no

For the NER task, we consider both Chinese datasets, i.e., OntoNotes4.0 BIBREF34 and MSRA BIBREF35, and English datasets, i.e., CoNLL2003 BIBREF36 and OntoNotes5.0 BIBREF37. Table shows experimental results on NER datasets. For English datasets including CoNLL2003 and OntoNotes5.0, our proposed method outperforms BERT-MRCBIBREF38 by +0.29 and +0.96 respectively. We observe huge performance boosts on Chinese datasets, achieving F1 improvements by +0.97 and +2.36 on MSRA and OntoNotes4.0, respectively. As far as we are concerned, we are setting new SOTA performances on all of the four NER datasets.
Question: What are method's improvements of F1 for NER task for English and Chinese datasets?
Extractive