A Survey of Approaches to Automatic Question Generation:from 2019 to Early 2021

Chao-Yi Lu, Sin-En Lu


Abstract
To provide analysis of recent researches of automatic question generation from text,we surveyed 9 papers between 2019 to early 2021, retrieved from Paper with Code(PwC). Our research follows the survey reported by Kurdi et al.(2020), in which analysis of 93 papers from 2014 to early2019 are provided. We analyzed the 9papers from aspects including: (1) purpose of question generation, (2) generation method, and (3) evaluation. We found that recent approaches tend to rely on semantic information and Transformer-based models are attracting increasing interest since they are more efficient. On the other hand,since there isn’t any widely acknowledged automatic evaluation metric designed for question generation, researchers adopt metrics of other natural language processing tasks to compare different systems.
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2021.rocling-1.21
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Proceedings of the 33rd Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2021)
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October
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2021
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Taoyuan, Taiwan
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Lung-Hao Lee, Chia-Hui Chang, Kuan-Yu Chen
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The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP)
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Chao-Yi Lu and Sin-En Lu. 2021. A Survey of Approaches to Automatic Question Generation:from 2019 to Early 2021. In Proceedings of the 33rd Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2021), pages 151–162, Taoyuan, Taiwan. The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP).
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