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We investigate the difficulty levels of questions in reading comprehension datasets such as SQuAD, and propose a new question generation setting, named Difficulty-controllable Question Generation (DQG). Taking as input a sentence in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Yifan Gao , Lidong Bing , Wang Chen , Michael R. Lyu , Irwin King

Question generation (QG) is to generate natural and grammatical questions that can be answered by a specific answer for a given context. Previous sequence-to-sequence models suffer from a problem that asking high-quality questions requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Xin Jia , Hao Wang , Dawei Yin , Yunfang Wu

Text-based Question Generation (QG) aims at generating natural and relevant questions that can be answered by a given answer in some context. Existing QG models suffer from a "semantic drift" problem, i.e., the semantics of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Shiyue Zhang , Mohit Bansal

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

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 (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

An important part when constructing multiple-choice questions (MCQs) for reading comprehension assessment are the distractors, the incorrect but preferably plausible answer options. In this paper, we present a new BERT-based method for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Dmytro Kalpakchi , Johan Boye

We propose a novel text generation task, namely Curiosity-driven Question Generation. We start from the observation that the Question Generation task has traditionally been considered as the dual problem of Question Answering, hence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Thomas Scialom , Jacopo Staiano

The use of question-based activities (QBAs) is wide-spread in education, traditionally forming an integral part of the learning and assessment process. In this paper, we design and evaluate an automated question generation tool for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Ayan Kumar Bhowmick , Ashish Jagmohan , Aditya Vempaty , Prasenjit Dey , Leigh Hall , Jeremy Hartman , Ravi Kokku , Hema Maheshwari

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

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

In the realm of education, student evaluation holds equal significance to imparting knowledge. To be evaluated, students usually need to go through text-based academic assessment methods. Instructors need to make a diverse set of questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Md. Alvee Ehsan , A. S. M Mehedi Hasan , Kefaya Benta Shahnoor , Syeda Sumaiya Tasneem

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

Automatic question generation (QG) is a useful yet challenging task in NLP. Recent neural network-based approaches represent the state-of-the-art in this task. In this work, we attempt to strengthen them significantly by adopting a holistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Vishwajeet Kumar , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Yuan-Fang Li

We explore the use of long-context capabilities in large language models to create synthetic reading comprehension data from entire books. Previous efforts to construct such datasets relied on crowd-sourcing, but the emergence of…

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

The neural seq2seq based question generation (QG) is prone to generating generic and undiversified questions that are poorly relevant to the given passage and target answer. In this paper, we propose two methods to address the issue. (1) By…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Jiazuo Qiu , Deyi Xiong

Automatic question generation (AQG) for mathematics education remains an elusive goal for Intelligent Tutoring Systems and educators. While pre-trained transformer-based language models have significantly advanced natural language…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Kia Karbasi , Kevin Hong , Mohammad Amin Samadi , Gregory Pottie

We propose a generative machine comprehension model that learns jointly to ask and answer questions based on documents. The proposed model uses a sequence-to-sequence framework that encodes the document and generates a question (answer)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Tong Wang , Xingdi Yuan , Adam Trischler

Questions Under Discussion (QUD) is a versatile linguistic framework in which discourse progresses as continuously asking questions and answering them. Automatic parsing of a discourse to produce a QUD structure thus entails a complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yating Wu , Ritika Mangla , Greg Durrett , Junyi Jessy Li