Question Generation
Automatic question generation (QG) focuses on using computational methods to create questions from given text, aiming to improve various applications like education, question-answering systems, and fact-checking. Current research emphasizes improving question quality (e.g., clarity, relevance, diversity), exploring cross-lingual transfer to address data scarcity in many languages, and leveraging large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3.5 and Llama 2, often incorporating techniques like contrastive learning and reinforcement learning to enhance performance. The advancements in QG have significant implications for creating more effective educational materials, building more robust conversational AI, and automating various knowledge-based tasks.
Papers
A Feasibility Study of Answer-Agnostic Question Generation for Education
Liam Dugan, Eleni Miltsakaki, Shriyash Upadhyay, Etan Ginsberg, Hannah Gonzalez, Dayheon Choi, Chuning Yuan, Chris Callison-Burch
TegTok: Augmenting Text Generation via Task-specific and Open-world Knowledge
Chao-Hong Tan, Jia-Chen Gu, Chongyang Tao, Zhen-Hua Ling, Can Xu, Huang Hu, Xiubo Geng, Daxin Jiang