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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

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

Commonsense question answering (QA) requires a model to grasp commonsense and factual knowledge to answer questions about world events. Many prior methods couple language modeling with knowledge graphs (KG). However, although a KG contains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Yichong Xu , Chenguang Zhu , Ruochen Xu , Yang Liu , Michael Zeng , Xuedong Huang

Conversational Question Generation (CQG) is a critical task for machines to assist humans in fulfilling their information needs through conversations. The task is generally cast into two different settings: answer-aware and answer-unaware.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Xuan Long Do , Bowei Zou , Shafiq Joty , Anh Tai Tran , Liangming Pan , Nancy F. Chen , Ai Ti Aw

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 ability to ask questions is important in both human and machine intelligence. Learning to ask questions helps knowledge acquisition, improves question-answering and machine reading comprehension tasks, and helps a chatbot to keep the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Bang Liu , Haojie Wei , Di Niu , Haolan Chen , Yancheng He

Question Generation (QG) is a Natural Language Processing (NLP) task that aids advances in Question Answering (QA) and conversational assistants. Existing models focus on generating a question based on a text and possibly the answer to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Junmo Kang , Haritz Puerto San Roman , Sung-Hyon Myaeng

Stories generated with neural language models have shown promise in grammatical and stylistic consistency. However, the generated stories are still lacking in common sense reasoning, e.g., they often contain sentences deprived of world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Huanru Henry Mao , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Julian McAuley , Garrison W. Cottrell

Question Generation (QG) is a fundamental NLP task for many downstream applications. Recent studies on open-book QG, where supportive answer-context pairs are provided to models, have achieved promising progress. However, generating natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Xiangjue Dong , Jiaying Lu , Jianling Wang , James Caverlee

Automatic question generation (QG) is a challenging problem in natural language understanding. QG systems are typically built assuming access to a large number of training instances where each instance is a question and its corresponding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Vishwajeet Kumar , Nitish Joshi , Arijit Mukherjee , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Preethi Jyothi

Implicit knowledge, such as common sense, is key to fluid human conversations. Current neural response generation (RG) models are trained to generate responses directly, omitting unstated implicit knowledge. In this paper, we present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Pei Zhou , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Behnam Hedayatnia , Seokhwan Kim , Jay Pujara , Xiang Ren , Yang Liu , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

We propose a query-based generative model for solving both tasks of question generation (QG) and question an- swering (QA). The model follows the classic encoder- decoder framework. The encoder takes a passage and a query as input then…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Linfeng Song , Zhiguo Wang , Wael Hamza

Question and answer generation (QAG) consists of generating a set of question-answer pairs given a context (e.g. a paragraph). This task has a variety of applications, such as data augmentation for question answering (QA) models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Asahi Ushio , Fernando Alva-Manchego , Jose Camacho-Collados

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

Recent question generation (QG) approaches often utilize the sequence-to-sequence framework (Seq2Seq) to optimize the log-likelihood of ground-truth questions using teacher forcing. However, this training objective is inconsistent with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Yuxi Xie , Liangming Pan , Dongzhe Wang , Min-Yen Kan , Yansong Feng

Smooth and effective communication requires the ability to perform latent or explicit commonsense inference. Prior commonsense reasoning benchmarks (such as SocialIQA and CommonsenseQA) mainly focus on the discriminative task of choosing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Pei Zhou , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Behnam Hedayatnia , Seokhwan Kim , Jay Pujara , Xiang Ren , Yang Liu , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Since commonsense information has been recorded significantly less frequently than its existence, language models pre-trained by text generation have difficulty to learn sufficient commonsense knowledge. Several studies have leveraged text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Wanqing Cui , Keping Bi , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

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

The task of Critical Questions Generation (CQs-Gen) aims to foster critical thinking by enabling systems to generate questions that expose underlying assumptions and challenge the validity of argumentative reasoning structures. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Banca Calvo Figueras , Rodrigo Agerri

Commonsense knowledge has proven to be beneficial to a variety of application areas, including question answering and natural language understanding. Previous work explored collecting commonsense knowledge triples automatically from text to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Zhicheng Liang , Deborah L. McGuinness