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Recent approaches to question generation have used modifications to a Seq2Seq architecture inspired by advances in machine translation. Models are trained using teacher forcing to optimise only the one-step-ahead prediction. However, at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Tom Hosking , Sebastian Riedel

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

In this paper, we propose to study the problem of COURT VIEW GENeration from the fact description in a criminal case. The task aims to improve the interpretability of charge prediction systems and help automatic legal document generation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Hai Ye , Xin Jiang , Zhunchen Luo , Wenhan Chao

Graph generation has emerged as a crucial task in machine learning, with significant challenges in generating graphs that accurately reflect specific properties. Existing methods often fall short in efficiently addressing this need as they…

This work focuses on the novel problem setting of generating graphs conditioned on a description of the graph's functional requirements in a downstream task. We pose the problem as a text-to-text generation problem and focus on the approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Peter A. Zachares , Vahan Hovhannisyan , Alan Mosca , Yarin Gal

A key barrier to using reinforcement learning (RL) in many real-world applications is the requirement of a large number of system interactions to learn a good control policy. Off-policy and Offline RL methods have been proposed to reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Wenqi Cui , Linbin Huang , Weiwei Yang , Baosen Zhang

Generating fluent natural language responses from structured semantic representations is a critical step in task-oriented conversational systems. Avenues like the E2E NLG Challenge have encouraged the development of neural approaches,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Anusha Balakrishnan , Jinfeng Rao , Kartikeya Upasani , Michael White , Rajen Subba

Large language models have shown remarkable language processing and reasoning ability but are prone to hallucinate when asked about private data. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) retrieves relevant data that fit into an LLM's context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Alfred Clemedtson , Borun Shi

Automatic question generation (QG) serves a wide range of purposes, such as augmenting question-answering (QA) corpora, enhancing chatbot systems, and developing educational materials. Despite its importance, most existing datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Seonjeong Hwang , Yunsu Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

Graph generation with Machine Learning is an open problem with applications in various research fields. In this work, we propose to cast the generative process of a graph into a sequential one, relying on a node ordering procedure. We use…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-24 Davide Bacciu , Alessio Micheli , Marco Podda

In unsupervised data generation tasks, besides the generation of a sample based on previous observations, one would often like to give hints to the model in order to bias the generation towards desirable metrics. We propose a method that…

We present a novel graph neural network (GNN) architecture for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) that leverages query-aware attention mechanisms and learned scoring heads to improve retrieval accuracy on complex, multi-hop questions.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Vibhor Agrawal , Fay Wang , Rishi Puri

Visual Question Generation (VQG) is the task of generating natural questions based on an image. Popular methods in the past have explored image-to-sequence architectures trained with maximum likelihood which have demonstrated meaningful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Shagun Uppal , Anish Madan , Sarthak Bhagat , Yi Yu , Rajiv Ratn Shah

Interpreting the reasoning process from questions to answers poses a challenge in approaching explainable QA. A recently proposed structured reasoning format, entailment tree, manages to offer explicit logical deductions with entailment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Tengxiao Liu , Qipeng Guo , Xiangkun Hu , Yue Zhang , Xipeng Qiu , Zheng Zhang

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mitigates hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating external data, with Knowledge Graphs (KGs) offering crucial information for question answering. Traditional Knowledge Graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Yushi Sun , Kai Sun , Yifan Ethan Xu , Xiao Yang , Xin Luna Dong , Nan Tang , Lei Chen

Question Generation (QG) is fundamentally a simple syntactic transformation; however, many aspects of semantics influence what questions are good to form. We implement this observation by developing SynQG, a set of transparent syntactic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Kaustubh D. Dhole , Christopher D. Manning

Previous works on Natural Language Generation (NLG) from structured data have primarily focused on surface-level descriptions of record sequences. However, for complex structured data, e.g., multi-row tables, it is often desirable for an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Zhiyu Chen , Wenhu Chen , Hanwen Zha , Xiyou Zhou , Yunkai Zhang , Sairam Sundaresan , William Yang Wang

Natural language generation (NLG) is a critical component in spoken dialogue system, which can be divided into two phases: (1) sentence planning: deciding the overall sentence structure, (2) surface realization: determining specific word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Shang-Yu Su , Yun-Nung Chen

We investigate the difficulty levels of questions in reading comprehension datasets such as SQuAD, and propose a new question generation setting, named Difficulty-controllable Question Generation (DQG). Taking as input a sentence in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Yifan Gao , Lidong Bing , Wang Chen , Michael R. Lyu , Irwin King

Graphs are increasingly becoming ubiquitous as models for structured data. A generative model that closely mimics the structural properties of a given set of graphs has utility in a variety of domains. Much of the existing work require that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Revanth Reddy , Sarath Chandar , Balaraman Ravindran