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Specifically, we use bi-directional Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), together with max-pooling over the temporal\/sequential dimension and neural attention, for representing (i) the headline, (ii) the first two sentences of the news article, and (iii) the entire news article. These representations are then combined\/compared, complemented with similarity features inspired on other FNC-1 approaches, and passed to a final layer that predicts the stance of the article toward the headline. We also explore the use of external sources of information, specifically large datasets of sentence pairs originally proposed for training and evaluating natural language inference methods to pre-train specific components of the neural network architecture (e.g., the RNNs used for encoding sentences). 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