Challenge: Existing methods for creating explanations for black-box models struggle with deriving easily interpretable explanations.
Approach: They propose a model-agnostic method to generate extractive explanations for neural network predictions using masking parts of the input that the model does not consider indicative of the respective class.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art results in a paragraph-level rationale extraction task, showing that this task can be performed without training a specialized model.

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