Tapping into the Power of Automatic Question Generation

Abstract

Question Generation (QG) is an important element of learning environments, information seeking systems, help systems, and other applications. There are a number of distinct research subfields which are concerned with the Automatic Question Generation (AQG) Systems. This research tries to have a wide look on existing automatic question generation systems, and some trials of overcoming its difficulties from different points of views.

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