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.

[EX Q]: Word embeddings have risen in popularity for NLP applications due to the success of models designed specifically for the big data setting.  Note that “big” datasets are not always available, particularly in computational social science NLP applications, where the data of interest are often not obtained from large scale sources such as the internet and social media, but from sources such as press releases BIBREF11 , academic journals BIBREF10 , books BIBREF12 , and transcripts of recorded speech BIBREF13 , BIBREF14 , BIBREF15  have proposed a model-based method for training interpretable corpus-specific word embeddings for computational social science, using mixed membership representations, Metropolis-Hastings-Walker sampling, and NCE. Experimental results for prediction, supervised learning, and case studies on state of the Union addresses and NIPS articles, indicate that high-quality embeddings and topics can be obtained using the method. The results highlight the fact that big data is not always best, as domain-specific data can be very valuable, even when it is small.
[EX A]: Why is big data not appropriate for this task?

[EX Q]: Our system was ranked second in the competition only 0.3 BLEU points behind the winning team UPC-TALP. The relative low BLEU and high TER scores obtained by all teams are due to out-of-domain data provided in the competition which made the task equally challenging to all participants. The fact that out-of-domain data was provided by the organizers resulted in a challenging but interesting scenario for all participants.
[EX A]: Does the use of out-of-domain data improve the performance of the method?

[EX Q]: We used the Visual storytelling (VIST) dataset comprising of image sequences obtained from Flickr albums and respective annotated descriptions collected through Amazon Mechanical Turk BIBREF1. Each sequence has 5 images with corresponding descriptions that together make up for a story. Furthermore, for each Flickr album there are 5 permutations of a selected set of its images. In the overall available data there are 40,071 training, 4,988 validation, and 5,050 usable testing stories.
[EX A]:
What statistics on the VIST dataset are reported?