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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T A Semantic Role-based Approach to Open-Domain Automatic Question Generation
%A Flor, Michael
%A Riordan, Brian
%Y Tetreault, Joel
%Y Burstein, Jill
%Y Kochmar, Ekaterina
%Y Leacock, Claudia
%Y Yannakoudakis, Helen
%S Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
%D 2018
%8 June
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C New Orleans, Louisiana
%F flor-riordan-2018-semantic
%X We present a novel rule-based system for automatic generation of factual questions from sentences, using semantic role labeling (SRL) as the main form of text analysis. The system is capable of generating both wh-questions and yes/no questions from the same semantic analysis. We present an extensive evaluation of the system and compare it to a recent neural network architecture for question generation. The SRL-based system outperforms the neural system in both average quality and variety of generated questions.
%R 10.18653/v1/W18-0530
%U https://aclanthology.org/W18-0530/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W18-0530
%P 254-263

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[A Semantic Role-based Approach to Open-Domain Automatic Question Generation](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0530/) (Flor & Riordan, BEA 2018)

• A Semantic Role-based Approach to Open-Domain Automatic Question Generation (Flor & Riordan, BEA 2018)

ACL

• Michael Flor and Brian Riordan. 2018. A Semantic Role-based Approach to Open-Domain Automatic Question Generation. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, pages 254–263, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.