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Modeling question asking using neural program generation

Computation and Language 2021-05-12 v4

Abstract

People ask questions that are far richer, more informative, and more creative than current AI systems. We propose a neuro-symbolic framework for modeling human question asking, which represents questions as formal programs and generates programs with an encoder-decoder based deep neural network. From extensive experiments using an information-search game, we show that our method can predict which questions humans are likely to ask in unconstrained settings. We also propose a novel grammar-based question generation framework trained with reinforcement learning, which is able to generate creative questions without supervised human data.

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@article{arxiv.1907.09899,
  title  = {Modeling question asking using neural program generation},
  author = {Ziyun Wang and Brenden M. Lake},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.09899},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Please cite as: Wang, Z. and Lake, B. M. (2021). Modeling question asking using neural program generation. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society