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This paper presents a simple and cost-effective method for synthesizing data to train question-answering systems. For training, fine-tuning GPT models is a common practice in resource-rich languages like English, however, it becomes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Kosuke Takahashi , Takahiro Omi , Kosuke Arima , Tatsuya Ishigaki

A large majority of American adults get at least some of their news from the Internet. Even though many online news products have the goal of informing their users about the news, they lack scalable and reliable tools for measuring how well…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Adam D. Lelkes , Vinh Q. Tran , Cong Yu

Understanding learning materials (e.g. test questions) is a crucial issue in online learning systems, which can promote many applications in education domain. Unfortunately, many supervised approaches suffer from the problem of scarce human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Yu Yin , Qi Liu , Zhenya Huang , Enhong Chen , Wei Tong , Shijin Wang , Yu Su

Conversational question generation (CQG) serves as a vital task for machines to assist humans, such as interactive reading comprehension, through conversations. Compared to traditional single-turn question generation (SQG), CQG is more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Xuan Long Do , Bowei Zou , Liangming Pan , Nancy F. Chen , Shafiq Joty , Ai Ti Aw

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

Question generation is a challenging task which aims to ask a question based on an answer and relevant context. The existing works suffer from the mismatching between question type and answer, i.e. generating a question with type $how$…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Wenjie Zhou , Minghua Zhang , Yunfang Wu

Recent advances in neural network-based generative modeling have reignited the hopes in having computer systems capable of seamlessly conversing with humans and able to understand natural language. Neural architectures have been employed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Cristina Garbacea , Qiaozhu Mei

We present QGen Studio: an adaptive question-answer generation, training, and evaluation platform. QGen Studio enables users to leverage large language models (LLMs) to create custom question-answer datasets and fine-tune models on this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Movina Moses , Mohab Elkaref , James Barry , Shinnosuke Tanaka , Vishnudev Kuruvanthodi , Nathan Herr , Campbell D Watson , Geeth De Mel

Suggested questions (SQs) provide an effective initial interface for users to engage with their documents in AI-powered reading applications. In practical reading sessions, users have diverse backgrounds and reading goals, yet current SQ…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Zihao Lin , Zichao Wang , Yuanting Pan , Varun Manjunatha , Ryan Rossi , Angela Lau , Lifu Huang , Tong Sun

Recent trends in natural language processing using pretraining have shifted focus towards pretraining and fine-tuning approaches for text generation. Often the focus has been on task-agnostic approaches that generalize the language modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Shashi Narayan , Gonçalo Simoes , Ji Ma , Hannah Craighead , Ryan Mcdonald

This paper presents an end-to-end neural network model, named Neural Generative Question Answering (GENQA), that can generate answers to simple factoid questions, based on the facts in a knowledge-base. More specifically, the model is built…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Jun Yin , Xin Jiang , Zhengdong Lu , Lifeng Shang , Hang Li , Xiaoming Li

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

Intelligent and adaptive online education systems aim to make high-quality education available for a diverse range of students. However, existing systems usually depend on a pool of hand-made questions, limiting how fine-grained and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Megha Srivastava , Noah Goodman

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) has emerged as a promising approach for detecting hallucinations and low-quality output of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, obtaining proper uncertainty scores is complicated by the conditional…

We introduce a novel retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) framework tailored for multihop question answering. First, our system uses large language model (LLM) to decompose complex multihop questions into a sequence of single-hop…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Seokgi Lee

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on question-answering (QA) tasks because of their superior capabilities in natural language understanding and generation. However, LLM-based QA struggles with complex QA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Chuangtao Ma , Yongrui Chen , Tianxing Wu , Arijit Khan , Haofen Wang

Automatically generated questions often suffer from problems such as unclear expression or factual inaccuracies, requiring a reliable and comprehensive evaluation of their quality. Human evaluation is widely used in the field of question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Weiping Fu , Bifan Wei , Jianxiang Hu , Zhongmin Cai , Jun Liu

One strategy for facilitating reading comprehension is to present information in a question-and-answer format. We demo a system that integrates the tasks of question answering (QA) and question generation (QG) in order to produce Q&A items…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Melissa Roemmele , Deep Sidhpura , Steve DeNeefe , Ling Tsou

The field of visual question answering (VQA) has recently seen a surge in research focused on providing explanations for predicted answers. However, current systems mostly rely on separate models to predict answers and generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Chenxi Whitehouse , Tillman Weyde , Pranava Madhyastha

Two fundamental challenges face generative models in engineering applications: the acquisition of high-performing, diverse datasets, and the adherence to precise constraints in generated designs. We propose a novel approach combining…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Adam Gaier , James Stoddart , Lorenzo Villaggi , Shyam Sudhakaran