CONSISTENT: Open-Ended Question Generation From News Articles

Tuhin Chakrabarty, Justin Lewis, Smaranda Muresan


Abstract
Recent work on question generation has largely focused on factoid questions such as who, what,where, when about basic facts. Generating open-ended why, how, what, etc. questions thatrequire long-form answers have proven more difficult. To facilitate the generation of openended questions, we propose CONSISTENT, a new end-to-end system for generating openended questions that are answerable from and faithful to the input text. Using news articles asa trustworthy foundation for experimentation, we demonstrate our model’s strength over several baselines using both automatic and human based evaluations. We contribute an evaluationdataset of expert-generated open-ended questions. We discuss potential downstream applications for news media organizations.
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2022.findings-emnlp.517
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022
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December
Year:
2022
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Yoav Goldberg, Zornitsa Kozareva, Yue Zhang
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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6954–6968
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.517
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.findings-emnlp.517
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Tuhin Chakrabarty, Justin Lewis, and Smaranda Muresan. 2022. CONSISTENT: Open-Ended Question Generation From News Articles. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, pages 6954–6968, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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