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Question Generation (QG), the task of automatically generating questions from a source input, has seen significant progress in recent years. Difficulty-controllable QG (DCQG) enables control over the difficulty level of generated questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Bernardo Leite , Henrique Lopes Cardoso

We present and analyze results from a pilot study that explores how crowdsourcing can be used in the process of generating distractors (incorrect answer choices) in multiple-choice concept inventories (conceptual tests of understanding). To…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Travis Scheponik , Enis Golaszewski , Geoffrey Herman , Spencer Offenberger , Linda Oliva , Peter A. H. Peterson , Alan T. Sherman

In reading comprehension, generating sentence-level distractors is a significant task, which requires a deep understanding of the article and question. The traditional entity-centered methods can only generate word-level or phrase-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Xiaorui Zhou , Senlin Luo , Yunfang Wu

This paper presents a novel approach to automatic generation of adequate distractors for a given question-answer pair (QAP) generated from a given article to form an adequate multiple-choice question (MCQ). Our method is a combination of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Cheng Zhang , Yicheng Sun , Hejia Chen , Jie Wang

Multiple choice questions (MCQs) are widely used in digital learning systems, as they allow for automating the assessment process. However, due to the increased digital literacy of students and the advent of social media platforms, MCQ…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Semere Kiros Bitew , Amir Hadifar , Lucas Sterckx , Johannes Deleu , Chris Develder , Thomas Demeester

Multiple-choice VQA has drawn increasing attention from researchers and end-users recently. As the demand for automatically constructing large-scale multiple-choice VQA data grows, we introduce a novel task called textual Distractors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Jiaying Lu , Xin Ye , Yi Ren , Yezhou Yang

Recent advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have impacted numerous sub-fields such as natural language generation, natural language inference, question answering, and more. However, in the field of question generation, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Devrim Cavusoglu , Secil Sen , Ulas Sert

A common way of assessing language learners' mastery of vocabulary is via multiple-choice cloze (i.e., fill-in-the-blank) questions. But the creation of test items can be laborious for individual teachers or in large-scale language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Qiao Wang , Ralph Rose , Naho Orita , Ayaka Sugawara

Evaluating generative models with open-ended generation is challenging due to inconsistencies in response formats. Multiple-choice (MC) evaluation mitigates this issue, but generating high-quality distractors is time-consuming and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Grace Byun , Jinho D. Choi

With the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs), Controllable Text Generation (CTG) has become a critical technology for enhancing system reliability and user experience. Addressing the limitations of traditional methods, this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yan Zhuang , Yuan Sun

Text generation rarely considers the control of lexical complexity, which limits its more comprehensive practical application. We introduce a novel task of lexical complexity controlled sentence generation, which aims at keywords to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jinran Nie , Liner Yang , Yun Chen , Cunliang Kong , Junhui Zhu , Erhong Yang

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

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

Multiple-choice tests are a common approach for assessing candidates' comprehension skills. Standard multiple-choice reading comprehension exams require candidates to select the correct answer option from a discrete set based on a question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Vatsal Raina , Adian Liusie , Mark Gales

Multiple choice questions (MCQs) are an efficient and common way to assess reading comprehension (RC). Every MCQ needs a set of distractor answers that are incorrect, but plausible enough to test student knowledge. Distractor generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Bilal Ghanem , Alona Fyshe

Creating multiple-choice questions to assess reading comprehension of a given article involves generating question-answer pairs (QAPs) and adequate distractors. We present two methods to tackle the challenge of QAP generations: (1) A…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Cheng Zhang

We introduce SCDE, a dataset to evaluate the performance of computational models through sentence prediction. SCDE is a human-created sentence cloze dataset, collected from public school English examinations. Our task requires a model to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Xiang Kong , Varun Gangal , Eduard Hovy

Distractor generation (DG) remains a labor-intensive task that still significantly depends on domain experts. The task focuses on generating plausible yet incorrect options, known as distractors, for multiple-choice questions. A reliable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Elaf Alhazmi , Quan Z. Sheng , Wei Emma Zhang

Within the context of reading comprehension, the task of Distractor Generation (DG) aims to generate several incorrect options to confuse readers. Traditional supervised methods for DG rely heavily on expensive human-annotated distractor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Fanyi Qu , Hao Sun , Yunfang Wu

Open cloze questions have been attracting attention for both measuring the ability and facilitating the learning of L2 English learners. In spite of its benefits, the open cloze test has been introduced only sporadically on the educational…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Shoya Matsumori , Kohei Okuoka , Ryoichi Shibata , Minami Inoue , Yosuke Fukuchi , Michita Imai