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Towards Diverse and Effective Question-Answer Pair Generation from Children Storybooks

Computation and Language 2023-06-13 v1

Abstract

Recent advances in QA pair generation (QAG) have raised interest in applying this technique to the educational field. However, the diversity of QA types remains a challenge despite its contributions to comprehensive learning and assessment of children. In this paper, we propose a QAG framework that enhances QA type diversity by producing different interrogative sentences and implicit/explicit answers. Our framework comprises a QFS-based answer generator, an iterative QA generator, and a relevancy-aware ranker. The two generators aim to expand the number of candidates while covering various types. The ranker trained on the in-context negative samples clarifies the top-N outputs based on the ranking score. Extensive evaluations and detailed analyses demonstrate that our approach outperforms previous state-of-the-art results by significant margins, achieving improved diversity and quality. Our task-oriented processes are consistent with real-world demand, which highlights our system's high applicability.

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@article{arxiv.2306.06605,
  title  = {Towards Diverse and Effective Question-Answer Pair Generation from Children Storybooks},
  author = {Sugyeong Eo and Hyeonseok Moon and Jinsung Kim and Yuna Hur and Jeongwook Kim and Songeun Lee and Changwoo Chun and Sungsoo Park and Heuiseok Lim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.06605},
  year   = {2023}
}

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