English
Related papers

Related papers: LIQUID: A Framework for List Question Answering Da…

200 papers

Existing question answering (QA) datasets derived from electronic health records (EHR) are artificially generated and consequently fail to capture realistic physician information needs. We present Discharge Summary Clinical Questions…

Neural approaches have become very popular in Question Answering (QA), however, they require a large amount of annotated data. In this work, we propose a novel approach that combines data augmentation via question-answer generation with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Maximilian Kimmich , Andrea Bartezzaghi , Jasmina Bogojeska , Cristiano Malossi , Ngoc Thang Vu

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

The success of large language models (LLMs) depends heavily on large-scale, high-quality instruction-following and reinforcement datasets. However, generating such data through human annotation is prohibitively time-consuming particularly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Chenhua Shi , Gregor Macdonald , Bhavika Jalli , Wanlu Lei , John Zou , Mridul Jain , Joji Philip

With the rapid development of knowledge bases(KBs),question answering(QA)based on KBs has become a hot research issue. In this paper,we propose two frameworks(i.e.,pipeline framework,an end-to-end framework)to focus answering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Lin Li , Mengjing Zhang , Zhaohui Chao , Jianwen Xiang

Community question answering (CQA) gains increasing popularity in both academy and industry recently. However, the redundancy and lengthiness issues of crowdsourced answers limit the performance of answer selection and lead to reading…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Yang Deng , Wai Lam , Yuexiang Xie , Daoyuan Chen , Yaliang Li , Min Yang , Ying Shen

In education, open-ended quiz questions have become an important tool for assessing the knowledge of students. Yet, manually preparing such questions is a tedious task, and thus automatic question generation has been proposed as a possible…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Kristiyan Vachev , Momchil Hardalov , Georgi Karadzhov , Georgi Georgiev , Ivan Koychev , Preslav Nakov

There are many potential benefits to news readers accessing diverse sources. Modern news aggregators do the hard work of organizing the news, offering readers a plethora of source options, but choosing which source to read remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Philippe Laban , Chien-Sheng Wu , Lidiya Murakhovs'ka , Xiang 'Anthony' Chen , Caiming Xiong

The current state-of-the-art generative models for open-domain question answering (ODQA) have focused on generating direct answers from unstructured textual information. However, a large amount of world's knowledge is stored in structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Alexander Hanbo Li , Patrick Ng , Peng Xu , Henghui Zhu , Zhiguo Wang , Bing Xiang

The ability to ask questions is important in both human and machine intelligence. Learning to ask questions helps knowledge acquisition, improves question-answering and machine reading comprehension tasks, and helps a chatbot to keep the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Bang Liu , Haojie Wei , Di Niu , Haolan Chen , Yancheng He

Question Answering (QA) systems are becoming the inspiring model for the future of search engines. While recently, underlying datasets for QA systems have been promoted from unstructured datasets to structured datasets with highly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Saeedeh Shekarpour , Denis Lukovnikov , Ashwini Jaya Kumar , Kemele Endris , Kuldeep Singh , Harsh Thakkar , Christoph Lange

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

Many open-domain questions are under-specified and thus have multiple possible answers, each of which is correct under a different interpretation of the question. Answering such ambiguous questions is challenging, as it requires retrieving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Haitian Sun , William W. Cohen , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Question answering is a task that answers factoid questions using a large collection of documents. It aims to provide precise answers in response to the user's questions in natural language. Question answering relies on efficient passage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Shashank Gupta

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

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

Automated question generation is an important approach to enable personalisation of English comprehension assessment. Recently, transformer-based pretrained language models have demonstrated the ability to produce appropriate questions from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Vatsal Raina , Mark Gales

We introduce CUS-QA, a benchmark for evaluation of open-ended regional question answering that encompasses both textual and visual modalities. We also provide strong baselines using state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs). Our dataset…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jindřich Libovický , Jindřich Helcl , Andrei Manea , Gianluca Vico

The question-answering (QA) simulator is a model that mimics real student learning behaviors and predicts their correctness of their responses to questions. QA simulators enable educational recommender systems (ERS) to collect large amounts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Haipeng Liu , Ting Long , Jing Fu

While there has been substantial progress in factoid question-answering (QA), answering complex questions remains challenging, typically requiring both a large body of knowledge and inference techniques. Open Information Extraction (Open…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Tushar Khot , Ashish Sabharwal , Peter Clark