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Query: Ranking Facts for Explaining Answers to Elementary Science Questions   In multiple-choice exams, students select one answer from among typically
four choices and can explain why they made that particular choice. Students are
good at understanding natural language questions and based on their domain
knowledge can easily infer the question's answer by 'connecting the dots'
across various pertinent facts.
  Considering automated reasoning for elementary science question answering, we
address the novel task of generating explanations for answers from
human-authored facts. For this, we examine the practically scalable framework
of feature-rich support vector machines leveraging domain-targeted,
hand-crafted features. Explanations are created from a human-annotated set of
nearly 5,000 candidate facts in the WorldTree corpus. Our aim is to obtain
better matches for valid facts of an explanation for the correct answer of a
question over the available fact candidates. To this end, our features offer a
comprehensive linguistic and semantic unification paradigm. The machine
learning problem is the preference ordering of facts, for which we test
pointwise regression versus pairwise learning-to-rank.
  Our contributions are: (1) a case study in which two preference ordering
approaches are systematically compared; (2) it is a practically competent
approach that can outperform some variants of BERT-based reranking models; and
(3) the human-engineered features make it an interpretable machine learning
model for the task.

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