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The neural seq2seq based question generation (QG) is prone to generating generic and undiversified questions that are poorly relevant to the given passage and target answer. In this paper, we propose two methods to address the issue. (1) By…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Jiazuo Qiu , Deyi Xiong

Datasets extracted from social networks and online forums are often prone to the pitfalls of natural language, namely the presence of unstructured and noisy data. In this work, we seek to enable the collection of high-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Rachel Gardner , Maya Varma , Clare Zhu , Ranjay Krishna

News articles are driven by the informational sources journalists use in reporting. Modeling when, how and why sources get used together in stories can help us better understand the information we consume and even help journalists with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Alexander Spangher , Nanyun Peng , Jonathan May , Emilio Ferrara

This paper proposes the problem of Deep Question Generation (DQG), which aims to generate complex questions that require reasoning over multiple pieces of information of the input passage. In order to capture the global structure of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Liangming Pan , Yuxi Xie , Yansong Feng , Tat-Seng Chua , Min-Yen Kan

This research introduces ScoreRAG, an approach to enhance the quality of automated news generation. Despite advancements in Natural Language Processing and large language models, current news generation methods often struggle with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Pei-Yun Lin , Yen-lung Tsai

Fact-based dialogue generation is a task of generating a human-like response based on both dialogue context and factual texts. Various methods were proposed to focus on generating informative words that contain facts effectively. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Ryota Tanaka , Akinobu Lee

Designing high-quality educational questions is a challenging and time-consuming task. In this work, we propose a novel approach that utilizes prompt-based techniques to generate descriptive and reasoning-based questions. However, current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Subhankar Maity , Aniket Deroy , Sudeshna Sarkar

Question Answering (QA) has shown great success thanks to the availability of large-scale datasets and the effectiveness of neural models. Recent research works have attempted to extend these successes to the settings with few or no labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Zhongli Li , Wenhui Wang , Li Dong , Furu Wei , Ke Xu

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

Obtaining training data for multi-hop question answering (QA) is time-consuming and resource-intensive. We explore the possibility to train a well-performed multi-hop QA model without referencing any human-labeled multi-hop question-answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Liangming Pan , Wenhu Chen , Wenhan Xiong , Min-Yen Kan , William Yang Wang

We present PeerQA, a real-world, scientific, document-level Question Answering (QA) dataset. PeerQA questions have been sourced from peer reviews, which contain questions that reviewers raised while thoroughly examining the scientific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Tim Baumgärtner , Ted Briscoe , Iryna Gurevych

Question generation (QGen) models are often evaluated with standardized NLG metrics that are based on n-gram overlap. In this paper, we measure whether these metric improvements translate to gains in a practical setting, focusing on the use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Philippe Laban , Chien-Sheng Wu , Lidiya Murakhovs'ka , Wenhao Liu , Caiming Xiong

Automatic Question Answering (QA) systems rely on contextual information to provide accurate answers. Commonly, contexts are prepared through either retrieval-based or generation-based methods. The former involves retrieving relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Jamshid Mozafari , Abdelrahman Abdallah , Bhawna Piryani , Adam Jatowt

Neural network models usually suffer from the challenge of incorporating commonsense knowledge into the open-domain dialogue systems. In this paper, we propose a novel knowledge-aware dialogue generation model (called TransDG), which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Jian Wang , Junhao Liu , Wei Bi , Xiaojiang Liu , Kejing He , Ruifeng Xu , Min Yang

When caregivers ask open--ended questions to motivate dialogue with children, it facilitates the child's reading comprehension skills.Although there is scope for use of technological tools, referred here as "intelligent tutoring systems",…

We introduce a new dataset for conversational question answering over Knowledge Graphs (KGs) with verbalized answers. Question answering over KGs is currently focused on answer generation for single-turn questions (KGQA) or multiple-tun…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Endri Kacupaj , Kuldeep Singh , Maria Maleshkova , Jens Lehmann

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

While it is often assumed that searching for information to evaluate misinformation will help identify false claims, recent work suggests that search behaviours can instead reinforce belief in misleading news, particularly when users…

Multiple-choice VQA has drawn increasing attention from researchers and end-users recently. As the demand for automatically constructing large-scale multiple-choice VQA data grows, we introduce a novel task called textual Distractors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Jiaying Lu , Xin Ye , Yi Ren , Yezhou Yang

Conversational systems enable numerous valuable applications, and question-answering is an important component underlying many of these. However, conversational question-answering remains challenging due to the lack of realistic,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Jing Gu , Mostafa Mirshekari , Zhou Yu , Aaron Sisto