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title = "A Semantic Role-based Approach to Open-Domain Automatic Question Generation",
author = "Flor, Michael and
Riordan, Brian",
editor = "Tetreault, Joel and
Burstein, Jill and
Kochmar, Ekaterina and
Leacock, Claudia and
Yannakoudakis, Helen",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of {NLP} for Building Educational Applications",
month = jun,
year = "2018",
address = "New Orleans, Louisiana",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W18-0530",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-0530",
pages = "254--263",
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.",
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%Y Kochmar, Ekaterina
%Y Leacock, Claudia
%Y Yannakoudakis, Helen
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Markdown (Informal)
[A Semantic Role-based Approach to Open-Domain Automatic Question Generation](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0530) (Flor & Riordan, BEA 2018)
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