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This research suggests an add-on to empower Google Forms to be an automatic machine for generating multiple-choice questions (MCQs) used in online assessments. In this paper, we elaborate an add-on design mainly comprising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Pornpat Sirithumgul , Pimpaka Prasertsilp , Lorne Olfman

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

Existing Scholarly Question Answering (QA) methods typically target homogeneous data sources, relying solely on either text or Knowledge Graphs (KGs). However, scholarly information often spans heterogeneous sources, necessitating the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Tilahun Abedissa Taffa , Debayan Banerjee , Yaregal Assabie , Ricardo Usbeck

Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are ubiquitous in almost all levels of education since they are easy to administer, grade, and are a reliable form of assessment. An important aspect of MCQs is the distractors, i.e., incorrect options that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Hunter McNichols , Wanyong Feng , Jaewook Lee , Alexander Scarlatos , Digory Smith , Simon Woodhead , Andrew Lan

Existing metrics for evaluating the quality of automatically generated questions such as BLEU, ROUGE, BERTScore, and BLEURT compare the reference and predicted questions, providing a high score when there is a considerable lexical overlap…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Alireza Mohammadshahi , Thomas Scialom , Majid Yazdani , Pouya Yanki , Angela Fan , James Henderson , Marzieh Saeidi

Attributed Question Answering (AQA) has attracted wide attention, but there are still several limitations in evaluating the attributions, including lacking fine-grained attribution categories, relying on manual annotations, and failing to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Nan Hu , Jiaoyan Chen , Yike Wu , Guilin Qi , Hongru Wang , Sheng Bi , Yongrui Chen , Tongtong Wu , Jeff Z. Pan

Predicting the difficulty of multiple-choice questions (MCQs) is important for effective assessment, yet current methods typically assume a unimodal student ability distribution, overlooking the heterogeneous nature of student…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Dhriti Krishnan , Jaromir Savelka

Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are widely used across diverse educational fields and levels. Well-designed MCQs should evaluate knowledge application in real-world situations. However, writing such test items in sufficient numbers is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tetiana Krushynska , Jani Ursin , Ville Heilala

Generating natural, diverse, and meaningful questions from images is an essential task for multimodal assistants as it confirms whether they have understood the object and scene in the images properly. The research in visual question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Alkesh Patel , Akanksha Bindal , Hadas Kotek , Christopher Klein , Jason Williams

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

Industrial question-answering (QA) systems require higher safety and reliability than general-purpose dialogue models, as errors in high-risk scenarios such as equipment fault diagnosis can have severe consequences. Although multi-agent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Jiqun Pan , Zhenke Duan , Jiani Tu , Anzhi Cheng , Yanqing Wang

Question answering over knowledge bases (KBQA) aims to answer factoid questions with a given knowledge base (KB). Due to the large scale of KB, annotated data is impossible to cover all fact schemas in KB, which poses a challenge to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Chuanyuan Tan , Yuehe Chen , Wenbiao Shao , Wenliang Chen

Neural abstractive summarization models are prone to generate content inconsistent with the source document, i.e. unfaithful. Existing automatic metrics do not capture such mistakes effectively. We tackle the problem of evaluating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Esin Durmus , He He , Mona Diab

Neural knowledge-grounded generative models for dialogue often produce content that is factually inconsistent with the knowledge they rely on, making them unreliable and limiting their applicability. Inspired by recent work on evaluating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Or Honovich , Leshem Choshen , Roee Aharoni , Ella Neeman , Idan Szpektor , Omri Abend

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

In the realm of multimodal tasks, Visual Question Answering (VQA) plays a crucial role by addressing natural language questions grounded in visual content. Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KBVQA) advances this concept by adding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Manas Jhalani , Annervaz K M , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Subjective responses from Multimedia Quality Assessment (MQA) experiments are conventionally analysed with methods not suitable for the data type these responses represent. Furthermore, obtaining subjective responses is resource intensive.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Jakub Nawała , Lucjan Janowski , Bogdan Ćmiel , Krzysztof Rusek , Pablo Pérez

Large Language Models (LLMs) require robust confidence estimation, particularly in critical domains like healthcare and law where unreliable outputs can lead to significant consequences. Despite much recent work in confidence estimation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Xiaoou Liu , Zhen Lin , Longchao Da , Chacha Chen , Shubhendu Trivedi , Hua Wei

Quantization-aware training (QAT) and Knowledge Distillation (KD) are combined to achieve competitive performance in creating low-bit deep learning models. Existing KD and QAT works focus on improving the accuracy of quantized models from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Justin Kur , Kaiqi Zhao

Answer selection and knowledge base question answering (KBQA) are two important tasks of question answering (QA) systems. Existing methods solve these two tasks separately, which requires large number of repetitive work and neglects the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Yang Deng , Yuexiang Xie , Yaliang Li , Min Yang , Nan Du , Wei Fan , Kai Lei , Ying Shen