Evaluate the collective function of references cited together in a given text segment.
Classify their combined role into one of the following categories: 'method', 'background', or 'result'.

Text:We choose InferSent because it performed competitively with the best-scoring systems on the Stanford Natural Language Inference (SNLI) dataset (Bowman et al., 2015), while being representative of the types of neural architectures commonly used for NLI tasks.
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