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Neural question generation (NQG) is the task of generating a question from a given passage with deep neural networks. Previous NQG models suffer from a problem that a significant proportion of the generated questions include words in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Yanghoon Kim , Hwanhee Lee , Joongbo Shin , Kyomin Jung

Generating high quality question-answer pairs is a hard but meaningful task. Although previous works have achieved great results on answer-aware question generation, it is difficult to apply them into practical application in the education…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Fanyi Qu , Xin Jia , Yunfang Wu

We propose a task to generate a complex sentence from a simple sentence in order to amplify various kinds of responses in the database. We first divide a complex sentence into a main clause and a subordinate clause to learn a generator…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Tomoya Ogata , Mamoru Komachi , Tomoya Takatani

This paper studied generating natural languages at particular contexts or situations. We proposed two novel approaches which encode the contexts into a continuous semantic representation and then decode the semantic representation into text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Jian Tang , Yifan Yang , Sam Carton , Ming Zhang , Qiaozhu Mei

Generating coherent, grammatically correct, and meaningful text is very challenging, however, it is crucial to many modern NLP systems. So far, research has mostly focused on English language, for other languages both standardized datasets,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Zein Shaheen , Gerhard Wohlgenannt , Bassel Zaity , Dmitry Mouromtsev , Vadim Pak

Automatic methods and metrics that assess various quality criteria of automatically generated texts are important for developing NLG systems because they produce repeatable results and allow for a fast development cycle. We present here an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Erion Çano , Ondřej Bojar

Question Answering has come a long way from answer sentence selection, relational QA to reading and comprehension. We shift our attention to generative question answering (gQA) by which we facilitate machine to read passages and answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Rajarshee Mitra

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

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Shang-Yu Su , Kai-Ling Lo , Yi-Ting Yeh , Yun-Nung Chen

Generative AI systems have revolutionized human interaction by enabling natural language-based coding and problem solving. However, the inherent ambiguity of natural language often leads to imprecise instructions, forcing users to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Fabrizio Marozzo

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

Asking questions about a situation is an inherent step towards understanding it. To this end, we introduce the task of role question generation, which, given a predicate mention and a passage, requires producing a set of questions asking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Valentina Pyatkin , Paul Roit , Julian Michael , Reut Tsarfaty , Yoav Goldberg , Ido Dagan

Digital learning platforms enable students to learn on a flexible and individual schedule as well as providing instant feedback mechanisms. The field of STEM education requires students to solve numerous training exercises to grasp…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Stanley Uros Keller

Factoid questions are questions that require short fact-based answers. Automatic generation (AQG) of factoid questions from a given text can contribute to educational activities, interactive question answering systems, search engines, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Guy Danon , Mark Last

Automated rationale generation is an approach for real-time explanation generation whereby a computational model learns to translate an autonomous agent's internal state and action data representations into natural language. Training on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Upol Ehsan , Pradyumna Tambwekar , Larry Chan , Brent Harrison , Mark Riedl

In this paper we formalize the problem automatic fill-in-the-blank question generation using two standard NLP machine learning schemes, proposing concrete deep learning models for each. We present an empirical study based on data obtained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Edison Marrese-Taylor , Ai Nakajima , Yutaka Matsuo , Ono Yuichi

Online reviews provide rich information about products and service, while it remains inefficient for potential consumers to exploit the reviews for fulfilling their specific information need. We propose to explore question generation as a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Qian Yu , Lidong Bing , Qiong Zhang , Wai Lam , Luo Si

A hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to ask rich, creative, and revealing questions. Here we introduce a cognitive model capable of constructing human-like questions. Our approach treats questions as formal programs that, when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Anselm Rothe , Brenden M. Lake , Todd M. Gureckis

Paraphrase generation is an important problem in NLP, especially in question answering, information retrieval, information extraction, conversation systems, to name a few. In this paper, we address the problem of generating paraphrases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Ankush Gupta , Arvind Agarwal , Prawaan Singh , Piyush Rai

Text generative models (TGMs) excel in producing text that matches the style of human language reasonably well. Such TGMs can be misused by adversaries, e.g., by automatically generating fake news and fake product reviews that can look…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Ganesh Jawahar , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

We study question-answering over semi-structured data. We introduce a new way to apply the technique of semantic parsing by applying machine learning only to provide annotations that the system infers to be missing; all the other parsing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Kedar Dhamdhere , Kevin S. McCurley , Mukund Sundararajan , Ankur Taly