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Automatic question generation (AQG) has broad applicability in domains such as tutoring systems, conversational agents, healthcare literacy, and information retrieval. Existing efforts at AQG have been limited to short answer lengths of up…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Shlok Kumar Mishra , Pranav Goel , Abhishek Sharma , Abhyuday Jagannatha , David Jacobs , Hal Daumé

Ambiguous user queries in search engines result in the retrieval of documents that often span multiple topics. One potential solution is for the search engine to generate multiple refined queries, each of which relates to a subset of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Woon Sang Cho , Yizhe Zhang , Sudha Rao , Chris Brockett , Sungjin Lee

Generative AI models face the challenge of hallucinations that can undermine users' trust in such systems. We approach the problem of conversational information seeking as a two-step process, where relevant passages in a corpus are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Weronika Łajewska , Krisztian Balog

In this survey, we present a detailed examination of the advancements in Neural Question Generation (NQG), a field leveraging neural network techniques to generate relevant questions from diverse inputs like knowledge bases, texts, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Shasha Guo , Lizi Liao , Cuiping Li , Tat-Seng Chua

New systems employ Machine Learning to sift through large knowledge sources, creating flexible Large Language Models. These models discern context and predict sequential information in various communication forms. Generative AI, leveraging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Ted Selker

Question answering (QA) is an important aspect of open-domain conversational agents, garnering specific research focus in the conversational QA (ConvQA) subtask. One notable limitation of recent ConvQA efforts is the response being answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Ashutosh Baheti , Alan Ritter , Kevin Small

Question generation from a knowledge base (KB) is the task of generating questions related to the domain of the input KB. We propose a system for generating fluent and natural questions from a KB, which significantly reduces the human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Linfeng Song , Lin Zhao

We propose a two-stage neural model to tackle question generation from documents. First, our model estimates the probability that word sequences in a document are ones that a human would pick when selecting candidate answers by training a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Sandeep Subramanian , Tong Wang , Xingdi Yuan , Saizheng Zhang , Yoshua Bengio , Adam Trischler

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Sugyeong Eo , Hyeonseok Moon , Jinsung Kim , Yuna Hur , Jeongwook Kim , Songeun Lee , Changwoo Chun , Sungsoo Park , Heuiseok Lim

Knowledge graph (KG) question generation (QG) aims to generate natural language questions from KGs and target answers. Previous works mostly focus on a simple setting which is to generate questions from a single KG triple. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Yu Chen , Lingfei Wu , Mohammed J. Zaki

For the field of education, being able to generate semantically correct and educationally relevant multiple choice questions (MCQs) could have a large impact. While question generation itself is an active research topic, generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jeroen Offerijns , Suzan Verberne , Tessa Verhoef

Conversational question generation (CQG) serves as a vital task for machines to assist humans, such as interactive reading comprehension, through conversations. Compared to traditional single-turn question generation (SQG), CQG is more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Xuan Long Do , Bowei Zou , Liangming Pan , Nancy F. Chen , Shafiq Joty , Ai Ti Aw

We introduce a new task called *entity-centric question generation* (ECQG), motivated by real-world applications such as topic-specific learning, assisted reading, and fact-checking. The task aims to generate questions from an entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yuxiang Liu , Jie Huang , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) refer to the most common inquiries about specific content. They serve as content comprehension aids by simplifying topics and enhancing understanding through succinct presentation of information. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Sahil Kale , Gautam Khaire , Jay Patankar

In the last several years, the field of computer assisted language learning has increasingly focused on computer aided question generation. However, this approach often provides test takers with an exhaustive amount of questions that are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Yi-Ting Huang , Meng Chang Chen , Yeali S. Sun

The topic-to-essay generation task is a challenging natural language generation task that aims to generate paragraph-level text with high semantic coherence based on a given set of topic words. Previous work has focused on the introduction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Jieyong Wang , Chunyao Song , Yihao Wu

Automatic question-answering is a classical problem in natural language processing, which aims at designing systems that can automatically answer a question, in the same way as human does. In this work, we propose a deep learning based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Shervin Minaee , Zhu Liu

Automatic question generation according to an answer within the given passage is useful for many applications, such as question answering system, dialogue system, etc. Current neural-based methods mostly take two steps which extract several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Yutong Wang , Jiyuan Zheng , Qijiong Liu , Zhou Zhao , Jun Xiao , Yueting Zhuang

Today the pre-trained language models achieve great success for question generation (QG) task and significantly outperform traditional sequence-to-sequence approaches. However, the pre-trained models treat the input passage as a flat…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Zichen Wu , Xin Jia , Fanyi Qu , Yunfang Wu

Automatic question generation (QG) is a useful yet challenging task in NLP. Recent neural network-based approaches represent the state-of-the-art in this task. In this work, we attempt to strengthen them significantly by adopting a holistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Vishwajeet Kumar , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Yuan-Fang Li