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.

To further improve the performance of our models, we introduce in-house labeled data that we use to fine-tune BERT. For the gender classification task, we manually label an in-house dataset of 1,100 users with gender tags, including 550 female users, 550 male users. We obtain 162,829 tweets by crawling the 1,100 users' timelines. For the dialect identification task, we randomly sample 20,000 tweets for each class from an in-house dataset gold labeled with the same 15 classes as the shared task.
What are the in-house data employed?

To discover topics from the collected tweets, we used a topic modeling approach that fuzzy clusters the semantically related words such as assigning “diabetes", “cancer", and “influenza" into a topic that has an overall “disease" theme BIBREF44 , BIBREF45 . Among topic models, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) BIBREF49 is the most popular effective model BIBREF50 , BIBREF19 as studies have shown that LDA is an effective computational linguistics model for discovering topics in a corpus BIBREF51 , BIBREF52 . We used the Mallet implementation of LDA BIBREF49 , BIBREF56 with its default settings to explore opinions in the tweets.
How were topics of interest about DDEO identified?

We asked medical doctors experienced in extracting knowledge related to medical entities from texts to annotate the entities described above. Initially, we asked four annotators to test our guidelines on two texts. Subsequently, identified issues were discussed and resolved. Following this pilot annotation phase, we asked two different annotators to annotate two case reports according to our guidelines. The same annotators annotated an overall collection of 53 case reports. The annotation was performed using WebAnno BIBREF7, a web-based tool for linguistic annotation. The annotators could choose between a pre-annotated version or a blank version of each text. The pre-annotated versions contained suggested entity spans based on string matches from lists of conditions and findings synonym lists.

How was annotation performed?