TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you will be presented with a context from an academic paper and you have to write an answerable question based on the context. Your questions can be extractive, abstractive, or yes-no questions.
PROBLEM: A maximum of three contributors will listen to any audio clip. If an $<$audio,transcript$>$ pair first receives two up-votes, then the clip is marked as valid. If instead the clip first receives two down-votes, then it is marked as invalid. A contributor may switch between recording and validation as they wish. Only clips marked as valid are included in the official training, development, and testing sets for each language. Clips which did not recieve enough votes to be validated or invalidated by the time of release are released as “other”. The train, test, and development sets are bucketed such that any given speaker may appear in only one. This ensures that contributors seen at train time are not seen at test time, which would skew results. Additionally, repetitions of text sentences are removed from the train, test, and development sets of the corpus.

SOLUTION: How is validation of the data performed?

PROBLEM: In this paper, we first highlight the importance of TV and radio broadcast as a source of data for ASR, and the potential impact it can have. We then perform a statistical analysis of gender representation in a data set composed of four state-of-the-art corpora of French broadcast, widely used within the speech community. Finally we question the impact of such a representation on the systems developed on this data, through the perspective of an ASR system.

SOLUTION: What tasks did they use to evaluate performance for male and female speakers?

PROBLEM: This model consists of two identical RNN encoders with no shared parameters, as well as a standard RNN decoder. For each target sentence, two versions of the source sentence are used: the sequential (standard) version and the linearized parse (lexicalized or unlexicalized).

SOLUTION:
What kind of encoders are used for the parsed source sentence?