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Generating syntactically and semantically valid and relevant questions from paragraphs is useful with many applications. Manual generation is a labour-intensive task, as it requires the reading, parsing and understanding of long passages of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Vishwajeet Kumar , Sivaanandh Muneeswaran , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Yuan-Fang Li

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

Abductive reasoning is the process of making educated guesses to provide explanations for observations. Although many applications require the use of knowledge for explanations, the utilization of abductive reasoning in conjunction with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Jiaxin Bai , Yicheng Wang , Tianshi Zheng , Yue Guo , Xin Liu , Yangqiu Song

Question Generation (QG) is a task within Natural Language Processing (NLP) that involves automatically generating questions given an input, typically composed of a text and a target answer. Recent work on QG aims to control the type of…

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

In real-world question-answering (QA) systems, ill-formed questions, such as wrong words, ill word order, and noisy expressions, are common and may prevent the QA systems from understanding and answering them accurately. In order to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Ye Liu , Chenwei Zhang , Xiaohui Yan , Yi Chang , Philip S. Yu

In a conversational system, dynamically generating follow-up questions based on context can help users explore information and provide a better user experience. Humans are usually able to ask questions that involve some general life…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Jianyu Liu , Yi Huang , Sheng Bi , Junlan Feng , Guilin Qi

Multi-hop question generation (MQG) aims to generate complex questions which require reasoning over multiple pieces of information of the input passage. Most existing work on MQG has focused on exploring graph-based networks to equip the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Dan Su , Peng Xu , Pascale Fung

The generation of questions and answers (QA) from knowledge graphs (KG) plays a crucial role in the development and testing of educational platforms, dissemination tools, and large language models (LLM). However, existing approaches often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sania Nayab , Marco Simoni , Giulio Rossolini , Andrea Saracino

While exam-style questions are a fundamental educational tool serving a variety of purposes, manual construction of questions is a complex process that requires training, experience and resources. Automatic question generation (QG)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Fatih Cagatay Akyon , Devrim Cavusoglu , Cemil Cengiz , Sinan Onur Altinuc , Alptekin Temizel

Building effective knowledge graphs (KGs) for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is pivotal for advancing question answering (QA) systems. However, its effectiveness is hindered by a fundamental disconnect: the knowledge graph (KG)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Hong Ting Tsang , Jiaxin Bai , Haoyu Huang , Qiao Xiao , Tianshi Zheng , Baixuan Xu , Shujie Liu , Yangqiu Song

The visual question generation (VQG) task aims to generate human-like questions from an image and potentially other side information (e.g. answer type). Previous works on VQG fall in two aspects: i) They suffer from one image to many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Kai Shen , Lingfei Wu , Siliang Tang , Fangli Xu , Bo Long , Yueting Zhuang , Jian Pei

Knowledge graphs (KGs) are an important source repository for a wide range of applications and rule mining from KGs recently attracts wide research interest in the KG-related research community. Many solutions have been proposed for the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Lihan Chen , Sihang Jiang , Jingping Liu , Chao Wang , Sheng Zhang , Chenhao Xie , Jiaqing Liang , Yanghua Xiao , Rui Song

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

We introduce a novel method of generating synthetic question answering corpora by combining models of question generation and answer extraction, and by filtering the results to ensure roundtrip consistency. By pretraining on the resulting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Chris Alberti , Daniel Andor , Emily Pitler , Jacob Devlin , Michael Collins

While current tasks of converting natural language to SQL (NL2SQL) using Foundation Models have shown impressive achievements, adapting these approaches for converting natural language to Graph Query Language (NL2GQL) encounters hurdles due…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Yuhang Zhou , Yu He , Siyu Tian , Yuchen Ni , Zhangyue Yin , Xiang Liu , Chuanjun Ji , Sen Liu , Xipeng Qiu , Guangnan Ye , Hongfeng Chai

Asking good questions is an essential ability for both human and machine intelligence. However, existing neural question generation approaches mainly focus on the short factoid type of answers. In this paper, we propose a neural question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Lidiya Murakhovs'ka , Chien-Sheng Wu , Philippe Laban , Tong Niu , Wenhao Liu , Caiming Xiong

Conversational question answering (convQA) over knowledge graphs (KGs) involves answering multi-turn natural language questions about information contained in a KG. State-of-the-art methods of ConvQA often struggle with inexplicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Lihui Liu , Blaine Hill , Boxin Du , Fei Wang , Hanghang Tong

Fact-checking is a crucial task as it ensures the prevention of misinformation. However, manual fact-checking cannot keep up with the rate at which false information is generated and disseminated online. Automated fact-checking by machines…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Gustav Nikopensius , Mohit Mayank , Orchid Chetia Phukan , Rajesh Sharma

Aiming to generate a set of keyphrases, Keyphrase Generation (KG) is a classical task for capturing the central idea from a given document. Based on Seq2Seq models, the previous reinforcement learning framework on KG tasks utilizes the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Yichao Luo , Yige Xu , Jiacheng Ye , Xipeng Qiu , Qi Zhang

The goal of text generation is to make machines express in human language. It is one of the most important yet challenging tasks in natural language processing (NLP). Since 2014, various neural encoder-decoder models pioneered by Seq2Seq…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Wenhao Yu , Chenguang Zhu , Zaitang Li , Zhiting Hu , Qingyun Wang , Heng Ji , Meng Jiang