Learning to Ask: Neural Question Generation for Reading Comprehension
Xinya Du,Junru Shao,Claire Cardie +2 more
- Vol. 1, pp 1342-1352
TLDR
This paper proposed an attention-based sequence learning model for question generation from text passages in reading comprehension, which is trainable end-to-end via sequence-tosequence learning and significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art rule-based system.Abstract:
We study automatic question generation for sentences from text passages in reading comprehension. We introduce an attention-based sequence learning model for the task and investigate the effect of encoding sentence- vs. paragraph-level information. In contrast to all previous work, our model does not rely on hand-crafted rules or a sophisticated NLP pipeline; it is instead trainable end-to-end via sequence-to-sequence learning. Automatic evaluation results show that our system significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art rule-based system. In human evaluations, questions generated by our system are also rated as being more natural (i.e.,, grammaticality, fluency) and as more difficult to answer (in terms of syntactic and lexical divergence from the original text and reasoning needed to answer).read more
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