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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Natural Language Processing and Information Systems |
| Subtitle of host publication | 29th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2024, Proceedings |
| Editors | Amon Rapp, Luigi Di Caro, Farid Meziane, Vijayan Sugumaran |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH |
| Pages | 183-194 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 978-3-031-70242-6 |
| ISBN (print) | 9783031702419 |
| Publication status | Published - 20 Sept 2024 |
| Event | 29th International Conference on Natural Language and Information Systems, NLDB 2024 - Turin, Italy Duration: 25 Jun 2024 → 27 Jun 2024 |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
|---|---|
| Volume | 14763 LNCS |
| ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
| ISSN (electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Abstract
Questions are an integral part of test formats in education. Also online learning platforms like Coursera or Udemy use questions to check learners’ understanding. However, the manual creation of questions can be very time-intensive. This problem can be mitigated through automatic question generation. In this paper, we present a comparison of fine-tuned text-generating transformers for question generation. Our methods include (i) a comparison of multiple fine-tuned transformers to identify differences in the generated output, (ii) a comparison of multiple token search strategies evaluated on each model to find differences in generated questions across different strategies and (iii) a newly developed manual evaluation metric that evaluates generated questions regarding aspects of naturalness and suitability. Our experiments show a difference in question length, structure and quality depending on the used transformer architecture, which indicates a correlation between transformer architecture and question structure. Furthermore, different search strategies for the same model architecture do not greatly impact structure or quality.
Keywords
- Automatic Question Generation, Pre-trained Transformer, Transformer Architecture
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Mathematics(all)
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Computer Science(all)
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Natural Language Processing and Information Systems : 29th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2024, Proceedings. ed. / Amon Rapp; Luigi Di Caro; Farid Meziane; Vijayan Sugumaran. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2024. p. 183-194 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14763 LNCS).
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AU - Koß, Jonathan
AU - Stamatakis, Markos
AU - Hoppe, Anett
AU - Ewerth, Ralph
AU - Wartena, Christian
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.
PY - 2024/9/20
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