A Semantic Role-based Approach to Open-Domain Automatic Question Generation

Michael Flor, Brian Riordan


Abstract
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.
Anthology ID:
W18-0530
Volume:
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Month:
June
Year:
2018
Address:
New Orleans, Louisiana
Editors:
Joel Tetreault, Jill Burstein, Ekaterina Kochmar, Claudia Leacock, Helen Yannakoudakis
Venue:
BEA
SIG:
SIGEDU
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
254–263
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W18-0530
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-0530
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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.
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A Semantic Role-based Approach to Open-Domain Automatic Question Generation (Flor & Riordan, BEA 2018)
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