8 articles in this issue
Paul Piwek,Kristy Elizabeth Boyer
Introduction to the Special Issue on Question Generation
Xuchen Yao,Gosse Bouma,Yi Zhang
This paper presents a question generation system based on the approach of semantic rewriting. The state-of-the-art deep linguistic parsing and generation tools are employed to convert (back and forth) between the natural language sentences and their meani... see more
Delphine Bernhard,Louis De Viron,Véronique Moriceau,Xavier Tannier
This article describes a question generation system for French. The transformation of declarative sentences into questions relies on two different syntactic parsers and named entity recognition tools. This makes it possible to further diversify the questi... see more
Andrew M. Olney,Arthur C. Graesser,Natalie K. Person
In this paper we present a question generation approach suitable for tutorial dialogues. The approach is based on previous psychological theories that hypothesize questions are generated from a knowledge representation modeled as a concept map. Our model ... see more
Ming Liu,Rafael A. Calvo,Vasile Rus
Many electronic feedback systems have been proposed for writing support. However, most of these systems only aim at supporting writing to communicate instead of writing to learn, as in the case of literature review writing. Trigger questions are potential... see more
Xuchen Yao,Emma Tosch,Grace Chen,Elnaz Nouri,Ron Artstein,Anton Leuski,Kenji Sagae,David Traum
This article describes a new tool for extracting question-answer pairs from text articles, and reports three experiments which investigate how suitable this technique is for supplying knowledge to conversational characters. Experiment 1 demonstrates the f... see more
Sergio Curto,Ana Cristina Mendes,Luisa Coheur
THE MENTOR automatically generates multiple-choice tests from a given text. This tool aims at supporting the dialogue system of the FalaComigo project, as one of FalaComigo’s goals is the interaction with tourists through questions/answers and quizzes ... see more
Vasile Rus,Brendan Wyse,Paul Piwek,Mihai Lintean,Svetlana Stoyanchev,Cristian Moldovan
The paper provides a detailed account of the First Shared Task Evaluation Challenge on Question Generation that took place in 2010. The campaign included two tasks that take text as input and produce text, i.e. questions, as output: Task A – Question Ge... see more