While how to most effectively apply  it is another topic, we simply show in this section using just alignment scores in binary prediction problems.
we pick the tasks of recognizing textual entailment (RTE), paraphrase identification (PP), and question answering sentence ranking (QA) described in Heilman and Smith (2010): RTE: predicting whether a hypothesis can be inferred from the premise, with training data from RTE-1/2 and RTE-3 dev, and test from RTE-3 test.