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Question Generation (QG) is a task of Natural Language Processing (NLP) that aims at automatically generating questions from text. Many applications can benefit from automatically generated questions, but often it is necessary to curate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Hugo Rodrigues , Eric Nyberg , Luisa Coheur

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

Question generation (QG) attempts to solve the inverse of question answering (QA) problem by generating a natural language question given a document and an answer. While sequence to sequence neural models surpass rule-based systems for QG,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Deepak Gupta , Hardik Chauhan , Akella Ravi Tej , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Conventional automatic evaluation metrics, such as BLEU and ROUGE, developed for natural language generation (NLG) tasks, are based on measuring the n-gram overlap between the generated and reference text. These simple metrics may be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Zifan Wang , Kotaro Funakoshi , Manabu Okumura

This paper explores the task of Difficulty-Controllable Question Generation (DCQG), which aims at generating questions with required difficulty levels. Previous research on this task mainly defines the difficulty of a question as whether it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Yi Cheng , Siyao Li , Bang Liu , Ruihui Zhao , Sujian Li , Chenghua Lin , Yefeng Zheng

Difficulty-controllable question generation for reading comprehension has gained significant attention in the field of education as a fundamental tool for adaptive learning support. Although several neural question generation methods have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yuto Tomikawa , Masaki Uto

We propose a two-stage neural model to tackle question generation from documents. First, our model estimates the probability that word sequences in a document are ones that a human would pick when selecting candidate answers by training a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Sandeep Subramanian , Tong Wang , Xingdi Yuan , Saizheng Zhang , Yoshua Bengio , Adam Trischler

Evaluating the quality of automatically generated question items has been a long standing challenge. In this paper, we leverage LLMs to simulate student profiles and generate responses to multiple-choice questions (MCQs). The generative…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Xinyi Lu , Xu Wang

Question-Options Generation (QOG) is a task that involves generating a set of question-options pairs given context. This task has various applications, including fine-tuning large models, information retrieval, and automated multiple-choice…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Jincheng Zhou

Recent advances in deep learning have significantly enhanced generative AI capabilities across text, images, and audio. However, automatically evaluating the quality of these generated outputs presents ongoing challenges. Although numerous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Tian Lan , Yang-Hao Zhou , Zi-Ao Ma , Fanshu Sun , Rui-Qing Sun , Junyu Luo , Rong-Cheng Tu , Heyan Huang , Chen Xu , Zhijing Wu , Xian-Ling Mao

Students often do not fully understand the code they have written. This sometimes does not become evident until later in their education, which can mean it is harder to fix their incorrect knowledge or misunderstandings. In addition, being…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Martin Goodfellow , Robbie Booth , Andrew Fagan , Alasdair Lambert

Conversational Question Generation (CQG) enhances the interactivity of conversational question-answering systems in fields such as education, customer service, and entertainment. However, traditional CQG, focusing primarily on the immediate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Shasha Guo , Lizi Liao , Jing Zhang , Cuiping Li , Hong Chen

Automatic question generation according to an answer within the given passage is useful for many applications, such as question answering system, dialogue system, etc. Current neural-based methods mostly take two steps which extract several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Yutong Wang , Jiyuan Zheng , Qijiong Liu , Zhou Zhao , Jun Xiao , Yueting Zhuang

While MCQs are valuable for learning and evaluation, manually creating them with varying difficulty levels and targeted reading skills remains a time-consuming and costly task. Recent advances in generative AI provide an opportunity to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Bernardo Leite , Henrique Lopes Cardoso , Pedro Pinto , Abel Ferreira , Luís Abreu , Isabel Rangel , Sandra Monteiro

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

Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are ubiquitous in almost all levels of education since they are easy to administer, grade, and are a reliable format in assessments and practices. One of the most important aspects of MCQs is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Wanyong Feng , Jaewook Lee , Hunter McNichols , Alexander Scarlatos , Digory Smith , Simon Woodhead , Nancy Otero Ornelas , Andrew Lan

Controllable text generation (CTG) by large language models has a huge potential to transform education for teachers and students alike. Specifically, high quality and diverse question generation can dramatically reduce the load on teachers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Sabina Elkins , Ekaterina Kochmar , Jackie C. K. Cheung , Iulian Serban

The paper surveys evaluation methods of natural language generation (NLG) systems that have been developed in the last few years. We group NLG evaluation methods into three categories: (1) human-centric evaluation metrics, (2) automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Asli Celikyilmaz , Elizabeth Clark , Jianfeng Gao

We investigate the less-explored task of generating open-ended questions that are typically answered by multiple sentences. We first define a new question type ontology which differentiates the nuanced nature of questions better than widely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Shuyang Cao , Lu 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
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