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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

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

The usage and amount of information available on the internet increase over the past decade. This digitization leads to the need for automated answering system to extract fruitful information from redundant and transitional knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Hariom A. Pandya , Brijesh S. Bhatt

With the development of deep learning techniques and large scale datasets, the question answering (QA) systems have been quickly improved, providing more accurate and satisfying answers. However, current QA systems either focus on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Bingning Wang , Ting Yao , Weipeng Chen , Jingfang Xu , Xiaochuan Wang

Multi-hop question generation (MQG) aims to generate questions that require synthesizing multiple information snippets from documents to derive target answers. The primary challenge lies in effectively pinpointing crucial information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Maodong Li , Longyin Zhang , Fang Kong

Question Generation (QG) is the task of generating a plausible question for a given <passage, answer> pair. Template-based QG uses linguistically-informed heuristics to transform declarative sentences into interrogatives, whereas supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Chenyang Lyu , Lifeng Shang , Yvette Graham , Jennifer Foster , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu

Community Question Answering (CQA) is a well-defined task that can be used in many scenarios, such as E-Commerce and online user community for special interests. In these communities, users can post articles, give comment, raise a question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Shen Gao , Yuchi Zhang , Yongliang Wang , Yang Dong , Xiuying Chen , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

Query graph construction aims to construct the correct executable SPARQL on the KG to answer natural language questions. Although recent methods have achieved good results using neural network-based query graph ranking, they suffer from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Yongrui Chen , Huiying Li , Guilin Qi , Tianxing Wu , Tenggou Wang

Open Domain Question Answering (QA) is evolving from complex pipelined systems to end-to-end deep neural networks. Specialized neural models have been developed for extracting answers from either text alone or Knowledge Bases (KBs) alone.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Haitian Sun , Bhuwan Dhingra , Manzil Zaheer , Kathryn Mazaitis , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , William W. Cohen

In the era of Big Knowledge Graphs, Question Answering (QA) systems have reached a milestone in their performance and feasibility. However, their applicability, particularly in specific domains such as the biomedical domain, has not gained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Saeedeh Shekarpour , Abhishek Nadgeri , Kuldeep Singh

To optimize the preparation process for educators in academic lectures and associated question-and-answer sessions, this paper presents E-QGen, a lecture abstract-based question generation system. Given a lecture abstract, E-QGen generates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Mao-Siang Chen , An-Zi Yen

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

Question Answering (QA) is the task of automatically answering questions posed by humans in natural languages. There are different settings to answer a question, such as abstractive, extractive, boolean, and multiple-choice QA. As a popular…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Zhichao Duan , Xiuxing Li , Zhengyan Zhang , Zhenyu Li , Ning Liu , Jianyong Wang

Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Graph RAG) effectively builds a knowledge graph (KG) to connect disparate facts across a large document corpus. However, this broad-view approach often lacks the deep structured reasoning needed for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jiaoyang Li , Junhao Ruan , Shengwei Tang , Saihan Chen , Kaiyan Chang , Yuan Ge , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

The problem of answering questions using knowledge from pre-trained language models (LMs) and knowledge graphs (KGs) presents two challenges: given a QA context (question and answer choice), methods need to (i) identify relevant knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Michihiro Yasunaga , Hongyu Ren , Antoine Bosselut , Percy Liang , Jure Leskovec

Conversational question answering (CQA) facilitates an incremental and interactive understanding of a given context, but building a CQA system is difficult for many domains due to the problem of data scarcity. In this paper, we introduce a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Seonjeong Hwang , Yunsu Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

The task of long-form question answering (LFQA) involves retrieving documents relevant to a given question and using them to generate a paragraph-length answer. While many models have recently been proposed for LFQA, we show in this paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Kalpesh Krishna , Aurko Roy , Mohit Iyyer

This paper presents a question answering system that operates exclusively on a knowledge graph retrieval without relying on retrieval augmented generation (RAG) with large language models (LLMs). Instead, a small paraphraser model is used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Kartikeya Aneja , Manasvi Srivastava , Subhayan Das , Nagender Aneja

Question Generation (QG) is an essential component of the automatic intelligent tutoring systems, which aims to generate high-quality questions for facilitating the reading practice and assessments. However, existing QG technologies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Xin Jia , Wenjie Zhou , Xu Sun , Yunfang Wu

Question generation (QG) is the task of generating a question from a reference sentence and a specified answer within the sentence. A major challenge in QG is to identify answer-relevant context words to finish the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Jingjing Li , Yifan Gao , Lidong Bing , Irwin King , Michael R. Lyu