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Many problems in database systems, such as cardinality estimation, database testing and optimizer tuning, require a large query load as data. However, it is often difficult to obtain a large number of real queries from users due to user…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Weihua Sun , Run-An Wang , Zhaonian Zou

Automated insight generation is a common tactic for helping knowledge workers, such as data scientists, to quickly understand the potential value of new and unfamiliar data. Unfortunately, automated insights produced by large-language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Ananya Singha , Bhavya Chopra , Anirudh Khatry , Sumit Gulwani , Austin Z. Henley , Vu Le , Chris Parnin , Mukul Singh , Gust Verbruggen

Prompt engineering is crucial for achieving reliable and effective outputs from large language models (LLMs), but its design requires specialized knowledge of prompting techniques and a deep understanding of target tasks. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yohei Ikenoue , Hitomi Tashiro , Shigeru Kuroyanagi

Generating some appealing questions in open-domain conversations is an effective way to improve human-machine interactions and lead the topic to a broader or deeper direction. To avoid dull or deviated questions, some researchers tried to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Lei Shen , Fandong Meng , Jinchao Zhang , Yang Feng , Jie Zhou

A common way of assessing language learners' mastery of vocabulary is via multiple-choice cloze (i.e., fill-in-the-blank) questions. But the creation of test items can be laborious for individual teachers or in large-scale language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Qiao Wang , Ralph Rose , Naho Orita , Ayaka Sugawara

This study aims to develop an adaptive learning platform that leverages generative AI to automate assessment creation and feedback delivery. The platform provides self-correcting tests and personalised feedback that adapts to each learners…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Riya Gill , Ievgeniia Kuzminykh , Maher Salem , Bogdan Ghita

Educational question generation (EQG) is a crucial component of intelligent educational systems, significantly aiding self-assessment, active learning, and personalized education. While EQG systems have emerged, existing datasets typically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Mengxia Yu , Bang Nguyen , Olivia Zino , Meng Jiang

Learning to generate fluent natural language from structured data with neural networks has become an common approach for NLG. This problem can be challenging when the form of the structured data varies between examples. This paper presents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Sebastian Gehrmann , Falcon Z. Dai , Henry Elder , Alexander M. Rush

Automatic question generation can benefit many applications ranging from dialogue systems to reading comprehension. While questions are often asked with respect to long documents, there are many challenges with modeling such long documents.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Luu Anh Tuan , Darsh J Shah , Regina Barzilay

This research is aimed to propose an artificial intelligence algorithm comprising an ontology-based design, text mining, and natural language processing for automatically generating gap-fill multiple choice questions (MCQs). The simulation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Pornpat Sirithumgul , Pimpaka Prasertsilp , Lorne Olfman

We explore question generation in the context of knowledge-grounded dialogs focusing on explainability and evaluation. Inspired by previous work on planning-based summarisation, we present a model which instead of directly generating a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Juliette Faille , Quentin Brabant , Gwenole Lecorve , Lina M. Rojas-Barahona , Claire Gardent

Inference making is an essential but complex skill in reading comprehension (RC). Some inferences require resolving references across sentences, and some rely on using prior knowledge to fill in the detail that is not explicitly written in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Wanjing Anya Ma , Michael Flor , Zuowei Wang

High quality arguments are essential elements for human reasoning and decision-making processes. However, effective argument construction is a challenging task for both human and machines. In this work, we study a novel task on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Xinyu Hua , Lu Wang

In open-domain conversational systems, it is important but challenging to leverage background knowledge. We can use the incorporation of knowledge to make the generation of dialogue controllable, and can generate more diverse sentences that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Cheng Luo , Dayiheng Liu , Chanjuan Li , Li Lu , Jiancheng Lv

Question generation over knowledge bases (KBQG) aims at generating natural-language questions about a subgraph, i.e. a set of (connected) triples. Two main challenges still face the current crop of encoder-decoder-based methods, especially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Sheng Bi , Xiya Cheng , Yuan-Fang Li , Yongzhen Wang , Guilin Qi

The application of Large Language Models to Question Answering has shown great promise, but important challenges such as hallucinations and erroneous reasoning arise when using these models, particularly in knowledge-intensive,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ignacio Sastre , Guillermo Moncecchi , Aiala Rosá

This paper addresses the problem of generating questions from a given context and an answer, specifically focusing on questions that require multi-hop reasoning across an extended context. Previous studies have suggested that key phrase…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zehua Xia , Qi Gou , Bowen Yu , Haiyang Yu , Fei Huang , Yongbin Li , Cam-Tu Nguyen

Deep learning methods have recently achieved great empirical success on machine translation, dialogue response generation, summarization, and other text generation tasks. At a high level, the technique has been to train end-to-end neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Ziang Xie

Existing dialog datasets contain a sequence of utterances and responses without any explicit background knowledge associated with them. This has resulted in the development of models which treat conversation as a sequence-to-sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Nikita Moghe , Siddhartha Arora , Suman Banerjee , Mitesh M. Khapra

Question generation in education is a time-consuming and cognitively demanding task, as it requires creating questions that are both contextually relevant and pedagogically sound. Current automated question generation methods often generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Subhankar Maity , Aniket Deroy , Sudeshna Sarkar