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We study the task of predicting a set of salient questions from a given paragraph without any prior knowledge of the precise answer. We make two main contributions. First, we propose a new method to evaluate a set of predicted questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Jishnu Ray Chowdhury , Debanjan Mahata , Cornelia Caragea

Recent advancements in transformer-based models have greatly improved the ability of Question Answering (QA) systems to provide correct answers; in particular, answer sentence selection (AS2) models, core components of retrieval-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Chao-Chun Hsu , Eric Lind , Luca Soldaini , Alessandro Moschitti

We present $\textbf{$\texttt{SkillQG}$}$: a question generation framework with controllable comprehension types for assessing and improving machine reading comprehension models. Existing question generation systems widely differentiate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Xiaoqiang Wang , Bang Liu , Siliang Tang , Lingfei Wu

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

Unsupervised commonsense question answering is appealing since it does not rely on any labeled task data. Among existing work, a popular solution is to use pre-trained language models to score candidate choices directly conditioned on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Yilin Niu , Fei Huang , Jiaming Liang , Wenkai Chen , Xiaoyan Zhu , Minlie Huang

We present a generative method called CQG for constructing cloze questions from a given article using neural networks and WordNet, with an emphasis on generating multigram distractors. Built on sense disambiguation, text-to-text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yicheng Sun , Jie Wang

Neural network-based methods represent the state-of-the-art in question generation from text. Existing work focuses on generating only questions from text without concerning itself with answer generation. Moreover, our analysis shows that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Vishwajeet Kumar , Kireeti Boorla , Yogesh Meena , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Yuan-Fang Li

Open-domain question answering (QA) tasks usually require the retrieval of relevant information from a large corpus to generate accurate answers. We propose a novel approach called Generator-Retriever-Generator (GRG) that combines document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Abdelrahman Abdallah , Adam Jatowt

Event Extraction (EE) is an essential information extraction task that aims to extract event-related information from unstructured texts. The paradigm of this task has shifted from conventional classification-based methods to more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zijin Hong , Jian Liu

Question Generation (QG), the task of automatically generating questions from a source input, has seen significant progress in recent years. Difficulty-controllable QG (DCQG) enables control over the difficulty level of generated questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Bernardo Leite , Henrique Lopes Cardoso

Generating multiple-choice questions (MCQs) with difficulty estimation remains challenging in automated MCQ-generation systems used in adaptive, AI-assisted education. This study proposes a novel methodology for generating MCQs with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mehmet Can Şakiroğlu , H. Altay Güvenir , Kamer Kaya

Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) with large language models (LLMs) for Question Answering (QA) entails furnishing relevant context within the prompt to facilitate the LLM in answer generation. During the generation, inaccuracies or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Barah Fazili , Koustava Goswami , Natwar Modani , Inderjeet Nair

The dependency between an adequate question formulation and correct answer selection is a very intriguing but still underexplored area. In this paper, we show that question rewriting (QR) of the conversational context allows to shed more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Svitlana Vakulenko , Shayne Longpre , Zhucheng Tu , Raviteja Anantha

Neural text generation models are often autoregressive language models or seq2seq models. These models generate text by sampling words sequentially, with each word conditioned on the previous word, and are state-of-the-art for several…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-02 William Fedus , Ian Goodfellow , Andrew M. Dai

Recent developments in large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in their ability to generate synthetic query-document pairs by prompting with as few as 8 demonstrations. This has enabled building better IR models, especially for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Aditi Chaudhary , Karthik Raman , Michael Bendersky

We study the problem of generating interconnected questions in question-answering style conversations. Compared with previous works which generate questions based on a single sentence (or paragraph), this setting is different in two major…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Yifan Gao , Piji Li , Irwin King , Michael R. Lyu

Generative commonsense question answering (GenCQA) is a task of automatically generating a list of answers given a question. The answer list is required to cover all reasonable answers. This presents the considerable challenges of producing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Zhifeng Li , Bowei Zou , Yifan Fan , Yu Hong

Clinical question answering (QA) aims to automatically answer questions from medical professionals based on clinical texts. Studies show that neural QA models trained on one corpus may not generalize well to new clinical texts from a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Xiang Yue , Xinliang Frederick Zhang , Ziyu Yao , Simon Lin , Huan Sun

In retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) question answering systems, generating citations for large language model (LLM) outputs enhances verifiability and helps users identify potential hallucinations. However, we observe two problems in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Guo Chen , Qiuyuan Li , Qiuxian Li , Hongliang Dai , Xiang Chen , Piji Li

Neural language model-based approaches to automated story generation suffer from two important limitations. First, language model-based story generators generally do not work toward a given goal or ending. Second, they often lose coherence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Louis Castricato , Spencer Frazier , Jonathan Balloch , Nitya Tarakad , Mark Riedl