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.

What is the impact of pre-trained representations with less transcribed data? In order to get a better understanding of this, we train acoustic models with different amounts of labeled training data and measure accuracy with and without pre-trained representations (log-mel filterbanks). The pre-trained representations are trained on the full Librispeech corpus and we measure accuracy in terms of WER when decoding with a 4-gram language model. Figure shows that pre-training reduces WER by 32% on nov93dev when only about eight hours of transcribed data is available. Pre-training only on the audio data of WSJ ( WSJ) performs worse compared to the much larger Librispeech ( Libri). This further confirms that pre-training on more data is crucial to good performance.
Do they explore how much traning data is needed for which magnitude of improvement for WER? 

Here I would use Informap algorithm BIBREF12. To make a comparison to this method, I am using CCM and SCA for distance measurement in this experiment, too. UPGMA algorithm would be used accordingly in these two cases.
Is the proposed method compared to previous methods?

The only remaining question is what makes two environments similar enough to infer the existence of a common category. There is, again, a large literature on this question (including the aforementioned language modeling, unsupervised parsing, and alignment work), but in the current work we will make use of a very simple criterion: fragments are interchangeable if they occur in at least one lexical environment that is exactly the same.

How do they determine similar environments for fragments in their data augmentation scheme?