Identifying Where to Focus in Reading Comprehension for Neural Question Generation

EMNLP 2017  ·  Xinya Du, Claire Cardie ·

A first step in the task of automatically generating questions for testing reading comprehension is to identify \textit{question-worthy} sentences, i.e. sentences in a text passage that humans find it worthwhile to ask questions about. We propose a hierarchical neural sentence-level sequence tagging model for this task, which existing approaches to question generation have ignored. The approach is fully data-driven {---} with no sophisticated NLP pipelines or any hand-crafted rules/features {---} and compares favorably to a number of baselines when evaluated on the SQuAD data set. When incorporated into an existing neural question generation system, the resulting end-to-end system achieves state-of-the-art performance for paragraph-level question generation for reading comprehension.

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